
Slackware 14.2, Ionic 2 and Android SDK

I’m Back In Slack…ware

Screen Saver bug in Mint 17
I have been using Linux Mint (XFCE) in my main computer for over a year and a half and i had to upgrade from version 16 to 17 due to the old repositories that were no loger working and I was getting stuck with the new available software (specially browsers’ security updates). In order to […]

Eloquent requires PDO
If you want to use the Eloquent ORM in Laravel or integrated in some other framework, you have to consider if the PDO driver is installed and activated in your server because Eloquent requires PDO. If only MySQLi is installed, it won’t work and will crash spitting errors such as. Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not […]

WordPress and SQLite
When you install WordPress, one of the installation requirements is to have a MySQL database, therefore you’re restricted to that particular engine. However, it’s possigle to use SQLite 3 as an alternative. To give a little context, some time ago existed (well it still exists) a plugin called PDO for WordPress which allowed the integration aforementioned […]

Slim Php, Eloquent and DB facade
Lately I have been using the Slim Php microframework along with some other additional components to develop some personal projects. So far the experience has been pleasant and straightforward but not without the typical problems that one has to face when learning new frameworks. I had a small problem regarding the execution of custom SQL queries […]