How to use an old iPad as a secondary screen for Windows 10

Nov 7, 2018 | Articles | 0 comments

I have an old iPad 2 lying around. This iPad is getting useless as time goes by, and my 2 monitor setup at home is, sometimes, just not enough.  Recently i’ve found a handy piece of software called Wired XDisplay. The setup is pretty straightforward: Install...

Forms in Flutter beta 2 – important limitations

May 7, 2018 | Articles | 0 comments

After trying to get Flutter forms to work, mixed with learning Dart and all the Flutter’s intricacies, i came to the conclusion that Form support in Flutter is, at best, sub-par. Namely, there seems to be no support to sequence the inputs (e.g. when you insert...

Installing .net core runtime 2.0 on CentOS (or RHEL) + Apache reverse proxy for Kestrel asp.net systemd quick start

Feb 21, 2018 | Articles | 0 comments

CentOS 7.x is required, this won’t work older versions. First, enable the dotnet repository for yum: yum install centos-release-dotnet Next, install the runtime package: yum info rh-dontnet20 rh-dotnet20-runtime The following packages will be installed:...

Display all glyphs in a WOFF, TTF or OpenType font

Feb 2, 2018 | Articles | 0 comments

Very useful online tool i’ve found: http://torinak.com/font/lsfont.html – it displays all the font glyphs in a nice, convenient, table.

Meltdown and Spectre in 15 minutes (or less)

Jan 5, 2018 | Articles | 0 comments

Explained by the folks at Computherphile, in some detail in less than 15...

ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and MSSQL

Aug 28, 2017 | Articles | 0 comments

The following methods calculate the ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, with the same exact results. All the examples below are using the same week criteria: week stars on Monday. MySQL is easy, as it supports this directly: SELECT...