Background Today my third WordPress plugin has been approved and added to the WordPress Plugins directory. A usual action after your plugin submission has been approved, is to push the code to the WordPress SVN repository. I must confess that I was never able to memorize all the commands and steps...
How to solve Ubuntu not booting on a dual-boot machine because of shim SBAT security policy violation
Background As a regular reader of this blog, you already know I use a dual-boot setup on my laptop where Ubuntu 22.04 is installed alongside Windows 11. Yesterday,14th August, I had to work on my Windows machine and before turning it off, I saw that there were updates available. And I think...
My dual-boot setup suddenly stopped working on my Dell XPS
I have been using Ubuntu (20 and then 22.0) and Windows 11 on my Dell XPS 15, 7590 for over three years without any major problems related to booting. I use Ubuntu on my laptop daily and occasionally log into Windows when I need to use Adobe Photoshop or Acrobat. However, I have been using Windows...
How to make Windows the default OS to boot into instead of Ubuntu Linux on a computer with dual-boot
Like many developers, I run Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 20.04. I use both of them regularly, but I use Windows most of the time since I work with a couple of programs that are only available on Windows. When I boot up my computer, the following screen is being displayed on the monitor. As you can...
How to install CMake 3.11.0 on Ubuntu 16.04
Last week I got in touch with CMake because of my internship. I am doing now an internship in a company where I have to develop a Facial Recognition solution for children in the kindergarten. I had to build OpenCV 3.4.1 from source using CMake. To be honest, that was the first time in my life! I...
Ubuntu installation stuck on ‘Preparing to install Ubuntu’ screen
Almost two weeks ago I bought a new laptop. I bought an ASUS VivoBook Pro N580VD-E4556T, a decent laptop with great specs. Display: 15,6 inch (1920 x 1080) Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ Memory: 16 GB Storage: 256 GB SDD + 1 TB HDD Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 It came with a Windows 10...
How to enable HTTP2 on Ubuntu 16.04 server with Apache 2.4.27
Two days ago I wanted to enable HTTP2 my website because it’s faster, simpler, and more robust than HTTP1. Check this link to read more about it. I have searched online how to enable it and I have followed almost every tutorial to enable it, but I couldn’t get it working. Everything...
How to use awk to get the amount of days of a specific month
I was busy with writing a shell script on my Linux machine to generate screenshots for liveuamap.com. I needed a way to get the amount of days in a specific month for a specific date. After long search I found ways to do it, one way was to use cal (cal 5 2015 | awk 'NF {DAYS = (cal 5 2015 | awk 'NF...
Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux
I use Filezilla extensively. I have been using it since almost the first version. It’s really simple. Plus, it’s an Open Source software 🙂 On my Linux machine (Ubuntu 16.04) I use always the latest version of it. I find it really important to keep the program up to date. I don’t...