Inkscape - Cut an object in half
I guess some will smile about this post. But for me it wasn't that trivial to cut an object exactly in half with Inkscape. Maybe there are better ways to do that, but here is my simple one.
Digitize a cassette tape with Linux
I have some old compact cassettes or tapes that I would like to digitize before time is destroying the quality completely. I will document the digitization with this post.
Connecting a Wii Remote Plus controller with Debian 8 (jessie)
I bought myself a Nintendo Wii Remote Plus controller. Interesting for me are the acceleration data. Since it was not trivial to me, I will show in this post how I have connected a Wii Remote Plus controller with my notebook that runs Debian 8 Jessie.
Bootstrap responsive embed aspect ratio
Bootstrap responsive embed can be very helpful to show responsive PDF files or videos. But it supports only the aspect ration 16by9 and 4by3. But what about other aspect rations? For example 210by297 would be interesting to embed a A4 paper.
Fast Nearest Neighbour Classification
In sommer 2015 I have visited the seminar Intelligent Software Systems at the TU Berlin. My topic was Fast Nearest Neighbour Classification. This post contains the results of the presentation and the term paper. Everything is open source and can be accessed on GitHub.
Ignore pause in LaTeX beamer with handout
When preparing my LaTeX slides with the beamer class for a presentation, I have used pretty often the pause command. This command splits a frame and hides the content under pause on the first frame. This is very helpful to give the audience step by step the content of a talk. But this can be very annoying when clicking throw the slides after the talk. There is a simple solution to ignore the pause commands.
Meet Magento 2016 Netherlands
I had the pleasure to give a talk about Magento 2 content under version control at the Meet Magento NL 2016.
PHPUnit compare generated PDF files with Imagick
Sometimes it is necessary to compare a generated PDF file with a given one in PHP. Just to check with one PHPUnit test that your PDF generation works the expected way. But pretty often generated PDF files are equal, but there content isn't the same. For example if you use FPDF the following assertion can fail if the files have different meta data.
$pdfContent1 = file_get_contents('path_to_pdf1');
$pdfContent2 = file_get_contents('path_to_pdf2');
$this->assertSame($pdfContent1, $pdfContent2);Create a list of dispatched events in Magento2
Magento2 has reduced the use of events. I guess the Magento plug-ins are more powerful. Today I would like to show, how to create a list of all dispatched events after visiting the product page for example. I have written a similar post a few years ago for older Magento versions.
Lesti_Fpc documentation version 1.4.5
Lesti_Fpc is internal full page cache for Magento. This Cache needs no varnish or any other extenal software and works with events. It is an internal cache and so it replaces dynamic blocks before sending response to customer. Here is little post that explains the workflow of Lesti_Fpc.