We need a crystal reports specialist to work as a consultant on some project for one of our best customers. They have an ERP system done in java with reports in Crystal Reports. They want some extra custom reports, so the main task is going to be related to the reports and not java programming but could also be included. Basically they will send the reports wanted once we have the specialist. Please send me the works you have done related to Crystal reports and having some Java knowledge is a plus and some references also send your hourly rate or some figures about how would you change for your job. We need someone able to spend time to understand the customer requirements and complete the work from A to Z.
Please contact me with the information required and we will come back to you.
RAS acronim for Retirement Advisory system is a free software distributed under MIT license. This software is currently used in Princess Marina Hospital to assist the Terminal Benefits Department with the Retirement of workers. Check out the github repo here.
To Animate images (even simple ones) sometimes difficult to achieve, and not every one has 700.00 USD to pay for the adobe products or you just do not want to pay 20 USD for adobe cloud for a simple animation. Here you can find a note to know how to create .gif animation from the command prompt in linux (in my case Debian).
The first is to install imagemagick.
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Them Go to the folder where you have the images to convert in the animate .gif e.g.
cd /home/abel/img
After that you can convert all of your images to the size that you need for the animate slide show:
mogrify -resize 640x480 *.png
If you have already done that with any other software like Gimp you can omit this step last step.
Then you actually animate .gif with this command:
convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png myimage.gif
Animate: Digital Experience Shop
Now; -delay 20 is the time to change the image, may be you need to add a different timing. Loop 0 is to repeat infinitely, if you want to do it just a few times you can change this value. *.png because all the images in the folder where I am are all .png, but you can do it also with jpeg. If you want to animate a complex image like this one. I mean animate every single element on this picture, I think you need to use something more complex but for simple animations like 2 or 3 logos rotating should be good enough.
Symfony 2 and CSS 3 is the subject of this how to. Styling a project can make the difference between buy or not to buy. so even if you have the best functional application, you need to css style it nicely to be able to attract people to it. We will go through styling your project from ground and also some additional tips that I have learn along my day to day work with Symfony 2.
Well, when you are going to style a project the first thing is to add the style sheets. In Symfony 2 for instance in my base.html.twig (Find it in SymfonyProject/app/Resources/views) I has this in my header:
Where @OsdRetireBundle is my @MyProjectMyBundle and then /Resources/public/css/main.css is the path to the actual css style sheet. Now we have added the reference to a style sheet to the project. But the style sheet does not exist in our Symfony 2 project. So we create it, and for that we create the folder called public. If it does not exists in SymfonyProject/src/Osd/RetireBundle/Resources/public/css Osd is my project name, RetireBundle is the name of my bundle. We create it and do the same also with css inside it. Then create your style sheet page in my case main.css. Now we have created our style sheet in Symfony 2 the rest is the same as any other css style sheet, I have this form:
GLPI is a free Tickets System distributed under GNU/GPL license. But When do you need a ticket system like this? This is one of the biggest challenges of the technical support companies or technical support teams. If they have to deal with many customers and the response times are critical. To be able to track, follow and organize the work of the different technicians that are supposed to do the actual job. In this scenario the paper work always becomes a challenge, accessibility, loose of information, spell and writing errors, individual and collective statistics, reporting, etc.
In the other hand if the information is in digital format. It can be backed up easily. And if the system is web based like GLPI you can access it from any Internet connection. And the rest depends on every one’s needs. You can have fancy charts that are easier to read. Reports about the performance of the team on a particular employee, etc.
Now you can read about the GLPI project official features here. From my point of view the most important features are:
OCS inventory integration module. This is a project to automate the inventory of computers. Integratin GLPI with OCS You receive information about your computers every day and can have statistics about your inventories easily. and also asing job to a specific computer or guess out how many ram memories your company is going to need in one year based on historical information. I am going to create an other post about OCS in the near future.
GLPI central console
Easily extensible through your own plugins. You just need to know some programming and understand GLPI. and you can develop your own piece of software to work with it.
A reach statistical module with very self explainable graphics.
A robust security module.
Facility to track workers behavior.
Contact management.
Budget management.
E-mail automated reminder or adviser.
Knowledge base
GLPI has a lot other functionality. But those are the ones I have been using and enjoying more along a few years. Now the system requirements are PHP5.2, a web server like apache, IIS or other and MySQL server 5. As you might have notice already if you know these technologies, the system is multiplatform and it can work under windows Linux or any other system always that you can meet it’s requirements.
Thank you guys for reading this. If you want to maintain your own server and have questions, feel free to ask here. If you are looking for someone someone to do it, check out this sample list of figures and prices.
I tend to forget where I find the solution for my problem very often, so I will start recording some of the solutions that I find for my different problems, if any one find this list some how interesting or useful in the future please consider leaving a comment or suggest other useful information that you have found in internet:
Creating entity relationship with Symfony 2 and Doctrine 2. Official Documentation: Symfony; The Book, 2013-11-08
Git hub getting started. I have created my first project in Git hub, for that I have followed this guide in the official page and it worked for me to create on file but then it was impossible for me to upload a whole project and to modify that project so I asked here. Not it is working. 2013-11-22
On Debian 5, 6 and 7 to execute a command at start-up (boot) you can save the command in /etc/rc.local. I have used it for instance to start a headless Virtualbox Virtual Machine and it works perfectly. any way this subject requires more investigation. probably in the future I will write a post about it.
I am learning python and this website, has been useful.
htpasswd? Hi guys, today I’m just bringing a note about htpasswd hope it will be useful for someone as this knowledge has been for me.
htpasswd is a tool for apache able to secure folders in a web directory, that means that the folder is public, but protected with password. this functionality is very useful for instance to install systems that have no internal security like Sarg the web app to read Squid logs, Munin to read servers performance, also if you want to share a folder with a friend or even when you need to secure your own web applications and you do not want to create your own security module. in the other hand; htpasswd supports several authentication methods with different security level, but I am just going to describe the basics authentication.
Now let’s stop talking and start doing; to create the password file with the first user you are supposed to execute the following command:
# htpasswd -c /home/pwww/.htpasswd-users abel
The -c option is to create the file and abel is the user. /home/pwww, could be any folder in your filesystem.
Note: I am assuming you have all the packages that are required already installed, and your Apache is running with the target folder to share with password.
After you have created one user you can add as many as you want with the following.
As you might have noticed the command is the same but without the -c option, as this option is only to create the file.
So far the file for the authentication is created and inside we have the users with the passwords; pretty but Apache does not know about them so they are useless. to say to Apache that a file is protected with htpasswd you have find the folder that you want to share with htpasswd and create a file colled .htaccess. this file is the first thing that Apache reads when he receives a request to a folder. So we create the file and inside we add the following code:
This is nice and works perfectly, but what does it means? Well it means we are going to use basics authentication. The user are going to be in /home/pwww/.htpasswd-users, AuthName is just a name so and it will appear in the authentication prompt. Require valid user is to make people use a name and passwords in the database and authGroupFile is optional for in case you have groups, that why here is pointing to /dev/null.
Now let say we want to make every one authenticate using htpasswd except for your own computer, because you do not want to put a password to access your own computer resources. Or that you have a server where the folder is running and you want the server to be able to execute a cron task on any of this URLs.
we you just have to modify a little bit your script adding this at the beginning:
Satisfy any
and this at the end of the script:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
So the final file would be like this:
# permit by USER || IP
Satisfy any
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
AuthName "Enter password"
Require valid-user
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
# IP
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
