Diego La Monica

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Diego La Monica

CEO Axio Studio S.r.l.

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  • Howto: mysql obtain the right sorting for nested records from the same table

    In those latest days I was wondering how to sort a table in mySQL that has an id a parent_id and a order column like the one that follows: id | parent_id | ordr | title —+———–+——+———————————- 1 | 0 | 1 | first section 2 | 0 | 2 | second section 3 | […]

  • Alla sede italiana del W3C per parlare di HTML5 e CSS3 il 31 Maggio 2013

    Qualche settimana fa la sede italiana del W3C aveva annunciato tramite il suo sito la preparazione di un evento incentrato su HTML5 e CSS3. Tale evento che si terrà a Pisa, nella sede italiana del W3C, prevede la partecipazione di personalità di un certo rilievo quali Bert Bos e Bernard Gidon. L’evento organizzato con IWA Italy ed altre grandi […]

  • How to convert HTML page to ODT or DOC document

    Just few days ago I’ve explained how to use LibreOffice in headless mode. Today I will describe how to convert an HTML page into an ODT, PDF and DOC document.

  • How to make libreoffice headless to work on CentOS 6.3

    In the latest days I was wondering how to make a minimal file-server able to convert some documents readable from LibreOffice to PDF. The first thing I’ve done was to install a Virtual Machine with CentOS 6.3 Minimal (No serverX, no WebServer… just, network and few other functionalities).

  • Create a repeated section with jQuery

    The script in this post, allows you to create a repeated section where “add” link adds a new section identical to the current one below, while the “remove” link will remove the current section.

  • Modality: a simple jQuery Modal Box plugin

    In the latest weekend I’ve developed Modality, a simple plugin for jQuery that help  to produce a modal box from existing Dom element. License and Usage The plugin is available on GitHub under General Public License (GPL) v 2.0. A working demo is available here. Compatibility The plugin was tested with: Mozilla Firefox v. 19.0 Chromium […]

  • WordPress: differences between update_user_meta and update_user_option

    Today I was wondering about differences between update_user_meta and update_user_option methods, and Googling about them I didn’t discovered clear differences. In WordPress too the two methods sometimes overlap. I think that a misunderstanding of those methods could cause an heavy headache!

  • Configure MBString using UTF-8

    This is the first post of 2013, so I will hope you all have a Great Year! And the first success obtained in this year is the resolution of a problem that is strugling me since few days.

  • Howto: Ubuntu make running applications visible on the Unity launcher

    Today I was installing a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine and all goes fine during the setup. During the configuration I’ve noticed that some applications does not appear in the unity launcher evenif they were running. I found that there is a Unity bug that causes this strange behavior.

  • Dotarsi di una stylus-pen per Smatphone a costo (e tempo) zero

    La mia scrivania tipicamente è un agglomerato di carte, cartacce, bottigline d’acqua semivuote, cavi, cavetti e mazzi di chiave disseminati in modo disordinato… Io preferisco dire che sono in “ordine sparso”.

  • WordPress: How to display multiple post types in the same loop

    The following code will help you to merge multiple post types in the same loop.