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Our Latest Development Work is Out

Our latest development work for CabOperator Company Limited United Kingdom is out (http://www.caboperator.co.uk). Our booking system solution created for Cabsites an online marketing solution for private hire industry conceptualized by CabOperator is launched finally after 4 months of development work. The system which is developed using CakePHP framework provides an automated transaction logging, vehicle and driver management, automated user transaction notification and back office alert and one click driver and vehicle assignment. A user of the system will benefit for its ease of use, it tracks the users frequently visited places for convenience and automatically pulled it down from the list of destinations if a user opt to do so these records can be easily removed by deleting it in their profile. It also provides them of transaction logging and automatic dispatch email at the start of transaction and up to the confirmation of their bookings request. For the back office users it provides them of automatic alert notification that a transaction has been requested by a user and an action is required for them to process the users request by assigning the type of vehicle requested and the driver assigned to fetch the user. A copy of the vehicle assignments is sent to the user including the type vehicle requested, the color of the vehicle, the plate number and the name of the driver assigned which makes all transaction fully automated.

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Connecting to TheChaw using Git Extension

Chaw is an application developed on CakePHP to handle some simple tasks needed for hosting code, providing information, and getting contributions from the world. It's the repository for CakePHP rapid development framework and also home for everything useful for CakePHP developers like the debug_kit for CakePHP. Here's what I did to connect successfully to TheChaw repository, I use the GIT Extensions which can be found here: GIT EXTENSIONS I also use putty from the putty project download the complete package. Create an SSH Key using Puttygen I use SSH-2 RSA 1024, save your private and public key to any directory. Make sure to enter a key phrase if you want to change it and also to secure it. Copy your OpenSSH key (its the key that says: Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized key files) from your puttygen screen logged in to your account at the chaw repository http://thechaw.com and paste your SSH key in the field for the GIT in your account.

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Configuring Apache server for Development to mimic production setup.

Most of the time a developer will need to test his programs against the production setup, to closely monitor the performance of the developed programs or if it will perform as expected when put into production. The best thing to do it is to enable Apache to mimic the production server setup so that the only thing a developer need to do is to transfer the files to the production server. This is easily accomplished in Apache server using the virtual host configuration, wherein we can setup a server instance which exactly matched our production server. We just need to enable all the modules that we need and proceed in configuring the virtual host file. Why do we need to enable virtual host?, you would say but apparently virtual host is needed if: * you´re on multiple domains * you need to test your projects with same configuration with the server * test your projects without touching your public server * you´re just organizing your projects into groups * or setup a local copy of your blog or website What do we need?, we need a server or a local computer running Apache either in Windows or Linux. Since most of us are developing using Windows we might as well use Windows using Apache Xampp for this setup. 1. In Apache we usually edit the httpd.conf to configure the virtual host file, but in Xampp it is a separate file being called inside the apache httpd.conf. You will find your httpd.conf in your drive where you installed Xampp in my case it's in my D: drive under the xampp folder navigate through D:\xampp\apache\conf you will find there your httpd.conf. 2. Inside our D:\xampp\apache\conf directory we will see a folder named extra. These folder holds additional configuration for our apache server. Before the functions can be configurable inside the httpd.conf but now it is just being called inside the httpd.conf when we start the server. Configuration in this manner is much simple since we will immediately know in which part of the configuration, we have committed an error if our server suddenly doesn't start. It is always a good idea to create a backup of the original file for reference or to restore it to original state if we commit an error.

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Tunnelier SSH2 Port Forwarding Client

If you are using SSH to control your server one of the best software to use is Tunnelier. Tunnelier is a friendly and flexible SSH client for Windows which includes state of the art terminal emulation, graphical as well as command-line SFTP support, an FTP-to-SFTP bridge, powerful tunneling features including dynamic port forwarding through integrated proxy, and also remote administration for our SSH server. * Port forwarding settings can be saved to and loaded from a profile. One can maintain multiple complex tunneling configurations without having to manually enter parameters before each session. * Tunnelier minimizes its presence by displaying only a system tray icon when running in the background. If an error is encountered while the program is minimized, the icon reflects that. * Command-line parameters are supported. Using command-line automation, a port forwarding session can be started from a link in the Startup menu without requiring any user interaction whatsoever.

Windows Server 2003: Not enough server storage is available to process this command.

I recently encountered this error while updating my Windows Server 2003 to service pack 3. My box use to work normally while I'm using service pack 2, after some research the probable cause might be the antivirus software i'm using. This error is documented in Microsoft website as kb177078. The resolution from the said error are the following: To resolve this behavior, increase the IRPStackSize value in the registry: 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. Type regedit, and then click OK. 3. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet \Services\LanmanServer\Parameters 4. In the right pane, double-click the IRPStackSize value. NOTE: If the IRPStackSize value does not already exist, use the following procedure to create it: a. In the Parameters folder of the registry, right-click the right pane. b. Point to New, and then click DWord Value. c. Type IRPStackSize. IMPORTANT: Type "IRPStackSize" exactly as it is displayed because the value name is case-sensitive. 5. Change the Base to decimal. 6. In the Value Data box, type a value that is larger than the value that is listed. If you created the IRPStackSize value using the procedure described in step 4, the default value is 15. It is recommended that you increase the value by 3. Therefore, if the previous value was 11, type 14, and then click OK.

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• Finally I found the time to upgrade the site engine. We are now running the latest engine from Wordpress after enduring months of manually doing the updates due to incompatible plugins now let me have a feel of the new engine. Good thing it didn´t break the layout this time. #
• We just recently hit the 50,000 visitor marks though update is not that frequent due to busy schedules on both sides. Work and programming work :)). If schedule permits updates will be coming, for the moment we thank you for just tuning in. #