Get latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu

LibreOffice is actually the most famous Open Source Office Suite. Unfortunately, Ubuntu repositories often doesn’t contains latest versions of it.

If you like to have your LibreOffice always updated, you can simply execute following commands in your terminal:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

At the end of the process, simply run LibreOffice from applications menu and have fun.

Creare e modificare documenti PDF con LibreOffice

Creare file PDF è un’operazione piuttosto comune. Modificarli, invece, è un po' meno comune ma, comunque, una funzione molto richiesta. LibreOffice esporta normalmente documenti in PDF. Dovete semplicemente cliccare su File -> Export in formato PDF. Ma, se lo desiderate, potete anche importare un PDF in Writer al fine di modificarlo. Tutto ciò di cui avete bisogno è un estensione chiamata pdf-import. Per installarla, eseguite semplicemente i seguenti comandi nel vostro terminale: [Read More]

Create and edit PDF documents with LibreOffice

Create PDF files is a very common operation. Modify them is a bit less common but, anyway, a very requested feature. LibreOffice exports documents as PDF by default. You simply click File -> Export in PDF format. But, if you want, you can also import a PDF file into Writer to modify it. All you need is an extension called pdf-import. To install it, simply execute following commands in your terminal: [Read More]

Come installare Funambol 10 su Debian Wheezy

In questo articolo vedremo come installare Funambol 10.0.3 su un server Debian Wheezy. Innanzitutto, dobbiamo installare sul server il Java jdk: $ apt-get install default-jdk In seguito, creiamo una cartella in cui scaricare e decomprimere Funambol (al momento, alla versione 10.0.3): $ mkdir -p /opt/Funambol $ cd /opt/Funambol $ wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/funambol/bundle/v10/funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin $ chmod +x funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin $ ./funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin Ora, abbiamo bisogno di un utente specifico per far girare Funambol. Così, creiamo un gruppo chiamato funambol ed anche un utente chiamato funambol con /opt/Funambol come cartella home: [Read More]

How to install Funambol 10 on Debian Wheezy

In this post we will cover how to install Funambol 10.0.3 on Debian Wheezy server. First of all, we need to install Java jdk on server: $ apt-get install default-jdk Then, let’s create a folder to download and uncompress Funambol (at the moment, at version 10.0.3): $ mkdir -p /opt/Funambol $ cd /opt/Funambol $ wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/funambol/bundle/v10/funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin $ chmod +x funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin $ ./funambol-10.0.3-x64.bin Now, we need a specific user to make Funambol run. [Read More]

ReCaptcha in Zend Framework 2 without Zend/Form

The problem Captcha is a very useful mechanism to avoid automated abuse of your sites and applications. In particular,reCAPTCHA is a Google powered service that offers a free and simple way to implement a captcha protection field in your forms or pages. Zend Framework 2 implements his own components to handle captcha and a specific one to handle reCAPTCHA service. At the moment, the ZF2 documentation is very usefull if you want to integrate a reCAPTCHA in your Zend/Form component, but lacks in describing how to use reCAPTCHA service component alone. [Read More]

Working with DateTime in Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework 2

The problem Storing datetimes can be a issue if servers and users of your application are distributed around the World and use different time zones. Each user want to work on datetimes in his specific time zone, servers automatically stores values in their time zone, etc. Storing data without operating right conversion will cause strange behaviours. The solution The solution is very simple: store all datetimes in UTC time zone and show to each user in his proper time zone. [Read More]

Switch to mobile, tablet, or other layout in Zend Framework 1.11

The problem We want to implement a method to completely switch layout of our Zend Framework application without loosing flexibility. The solution must give us the possibility of switching all layouts and the views of the controllers we want.Other’s solutions I found some solutions on the Web, but I decided to post this article because no one satisfies my needs. They all resort to ContextSwitch to handle views file names, but, in my applications, I just use ContextSwitch in some actions for other purpose, so I’m unable to apply them without restructure existing code. [Read More]