Ubuntu : Apache, PHP & Oracle with oci8 enable Installation

It's been a while since I need to program PHP with connection to an Oracle database.  Usually, I would prefer to design my system to use MySQL or postgreSQL to link up with PHP as a database.  But I cannot exclude myself to have to code a PHP system which need to connect to an Oracle DB by a client specific request.

So, as I'm lurking around the Google street to have a good and working guide on how to setup PHP to be able to connect to Oracle - I did found out that there are not many tutorial available on blogs and forums on a working step-by-step Apache, PHP and Oracle installation guide with an oci8 extension enable.

Ubuntu : Extend Battery Life

As lots of users nowadays are using linux on portable machine such as netbooks and notebooks, there are concerns on Ubuntu users on how they could maximize their battery life as they try to work with their machines as long as possible.

Today, Linux has evolved to suit more user needs such as user-friendly interface, more complicated application for scientific used and also lots of day-to-day applications for home use.  Linux not a geek operating system anymore as beginner user can easily change from typical windows operating to linux (any distribution) without any hitch.

Ubuntu : Disable 'Universal Access Settings' Panel Icon

It seem like by default Gnome 3 will display the Universal Access Settings icon on the top panel just in case user is having any disabilities. This is a good decision since now all can install and use linux once they have it installed on their machine without the need to call somebody else just to enable the accessibility functions.

But for me, the icon on top panel of Gnome 3 is just a waste since I do not need it on the first place. So I need to remove it badly and luckily I manage to find a way to disable the icon from appearing on panel.

MVC 3 : Create A Simple Blog Application Pt. 2

We will continue from what we left out on previous tutorial Pt 1.  Some recaps on previous tutorial, we have create a new project that we called NegativeZero on our Microsoft Visual Studio(or some might be using Microsoft Web Developer).  Since we do not yet touch any code on previous tutorial, so by default the project will be compiled as Default MVC 3 Web Application Internet.

So on this part 2 tutorial, we will be creating our Model for this project.  Since we are developing simple but working Blog Application, we should bear in mind that one must has entity in our model.  The entity is POST which will keep our record on every post that we will post.  And basically, Post entity should have this attributes:

1. author
2. date
3. title
4. post(which will be the post body)
5. tags
6. categories