Marcos Placona's Blog

As previously promised , today I'll be publishing my migration scrips from Mango Blog to WordPress .

I've been procrastinating for too long, and somehow trying to avoid the inevitable.

As most of you already know, I LOVE regular expressions, and think they are great to solve simple and complex tasks involving strings.

The first Flex 4 book (Hello!

I've been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates.

Not really Flash running from websites on the browser, but at the MAX Conference 2009 that is happening this week, Adobe has just broken the news that…

I have been doing some housekeeping on my VPS, and decided there's a few ports that should only be accessed by certain IP addresses for security purposes.

I'm only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish such thing is…

I've decided to get back at jQuery draggable and droppable to a personal project I've been working on.

On my last blog post I explained how to create a drag and drop using cloning, so you can can drag & drop multiple objects

At work we've been doing some deploy optimization, and the need of automatically deleting (recursively) specific folders came up.

I've used this DTD generator tool a long time ago, but today I had to use it again, so I thought I should put an entry on my blog about it and keep it…

To continue with our series of website optimization tricks, I'll talk a little bit more about Content Delivery Network (CDN) , and will talk you though…

Assets such as stylesheets, images and videos are often the major hit taken by a webserver when a webpage is loaded.

Yesterday the Google team posted an entry on all their blogs about a new operating system that is to come.

It came to my attention today that my website was serving blank pages, and I got really intrigued with it.

Did you know that search engines consider things like https://www.placona.co.uk/index.cfm and https://placona.co.uk/index.cfm as duplicate content?

How to make Apache URLs case insensitive using mod_speling and mod_rewrite, so visitors reach your pages whatever case they type.

This is really for my future reference, but I thought someone would bump into that any time.

I've recently been playing with Google apps for domains, where it lets you create Gmail based emails for your domain.

Continuing with my Apache series, I'll be today talking about cache control.

How to sync your Outlook or Google Calendar with an iPhone so meetings and appointments stay up to date across both devices.

I'm going to start a server configuration series here, where I'll be talking about my goals and frustrations when configuring my own webserver.

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt.

And of course I was out of the country and then too busy to even read anything about it.

Last week it came to my attention that ColdFusion is being used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies .

The jQuery UI team have done it again.

The jQuery UI team has just started a weekly series on what's happening with jQuery UI.

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt.

UPDATEI'm constantly finding new tools that help me to use my twitter account in a better way.

I've just seen this video and thought I'd share it with my few readers.

The jQuery UI team has marked a major milestone for the UI.

I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you.

I feel kinda bad to be calling this dirty, but mind you, I'm only using dirty as an expression, as it's freaking sweet.

I know I'm a bit late on this one, but yesterday Adobe released AIR 1.5.1 with a few bug fixes and one "minor-albeit useful-new feature." as they say.

I just came across this very interesting list of things you can do with jQuery .

Well, I've never publicly done this before, as I though it was a little too personal, but this year I decided to try it.

Just a quick post to say that I have 10 7 dropbox invites I'm willing to give to anyone able to tell me why I should give it away.

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt.

This is a very quick and dirty example of how to treat links on your blog / website using JQuery.

As some of you know, one of my hobbies is electronics with micro controller usage, and I happen to use an electronics forum a lot when I'm losing hair…

I'm just studying a little bit of Flex and Action Script 3.

Adobe released the Flash Player for Linux, closing a long-standing gap for Linux desktop users.

Ripping CDs to MP3 on Ubuntu: the codecs and tools you need to get usable audio files out of a disc on a Linux desktop.

Yes, it seems that Mozilla just released the new version of Firefox codenamed Gran Paradiso.

As previously said I was having some kind of troubles with my wireless connection on Ubuntu.

Following the last post about network problems and dodgy Firewalls.

Just found it on my old ColdFusion installation and thought it might be useful for someone in a multiple Jrun installations environment.

I recently bought a brand new Compaq Presario desktop to my new flat.

As everybody knows, this Blog should show my studies integrating CFML with other technologies.