Git, knowing a better world! a.k.a. “why I love Git”

Probably, some of you know the story of two British salesmen who were sent to Africa in the 1900’s to see if there were any opportunities to sell shoes. The salesmen wrote telegrams back to their colleagues in Britain and one of them wrote, “Situation hopeless. They don’t wear shoes.” And the other salesman wrote,…

How to delete a remote Git tag

If some day for any reason you want to remove a tag because maybe you make a mistake and you want to move your Git tag to another commit, then you are going to need: Delete the tag from local repository Remove the tag in the remote repository For doing these operations, just execute next…

Some online editors for Markdown syntax

If you have worked with Github and you have created some Github pages probably “markdown syntax” is part of your daily work. This great language was created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz and used in many systems like Github, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Stash, etc. the nice thing about this language is that it is really…

Session 6: jQuery for the real world (in spanish)

Would you like to improve your skills in Ajax calls and communicate jQuery with other frameworks like CakePHP?, well if you answered yes, this post is definitely for you. This is the sixth and last video of the first part of an initiative  related with jQuery that I have named jQuery for the real world….

How to check SHA1 digest in Mac OS X

Hi! Today, I just want to share you an easy way to check the SHA1 digest using a the terminal in Mac OSX. This command is really useful when you need to know if any file -for example an ISO- was downloaded correctly. Step 1. Open a terminal. Step 2. Type next command and wait…

How to allow publishing of JavaEE applications with “errors” in IBM Rational® Software Architect

The problem Sometimes, you are creating pieces of software with many tags in HTML, JavaScript or any other front-end language that IBM Rational® Software Architect doesn’t recognize, for example today I was publishing a theme for WebSphere Portal 8 and an error started to happen in the publishing operation, in a nutshell it was about my…

CakePHP Database connection “Mysql” is missing, or could not be created in CakePHP Console SOLVED

Today, I spent some time helping a partner of mine trying to figure out how to enable and use the CakePHP console in Mac OS + XAMPP (Mac OS version of course), so, after searching on the internet what was going on, I realized there was a problem with the unix_socket for MySQL because Mac…