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Change the Time Machine backup interval

Luscarpa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:43:39 +0000

Do you think that Time Machine backups are done too often? If you want to change the backup interval, you have to do the following steps:

Open Terminal
Go to /System/Lybrary/LaunchDaemons
Open with your prefer text editor the file com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
Find this row: StartInterval
Change the number on the next row: 3600

3600 is the interval of backup in seconds, you can increase or decrease the number as you like!

Start & Stop Jenkins daemon on Mac OS X

Luscarpa — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:36:31 +0000

These are two small snippets to start and stop Jenkins in daemon mode on Mac OS X.

Start Jenkins:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist

Stop Jenkins:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist

Zend_Application & Boostrap – A hidden secret

Luscarpa — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:50:26 +0000

From Zend Framework 1.8, the way to use ZF is changed, Zend_Application and Zend_Application_Resource have improved exponentially the way to start up a ZF project.
In this short post I don’t want to show you how to use them, but I want to give you a simple hidden secret.

If you have already used them you know that to launch your ZF application you need to add these lines to your application.ini

bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"

and create the file boostrapp.php with the following code


This is the best boostrapp that you can have, without any method. You can obtain this moving all your methods on the resources.

But if I have an empty class why should I create this file?
There is a little tip to remove this file from execution of your scripts, you have to change the previous lines of your application.ini with these
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap"

Comments number without pingbacks and trackbacks

Luscarpa — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:33:32 +0000

Using this snippet you can get the total comments number for a post without pingbacks and trackbacks.

Open the functions.php file that you can find into your template folder, if you haven’t it you have to create it. After this, add this code at the bottom of file:

function comment_count( $count ) {
	if ( ! is_admin() ) {
		global $id;
		$comments_by_type = &separate_comments(get_comments('status=approve&post_id=' . $id));
		return count($comments_by_type['comment']);
	} else {
		return $count;
	}
}
add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0);

Disable layout and view render

Luscarpa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:56:11 +0000

These are two simple lines that help you to disable layout and view render for a specific action:

public function indexAction()
{
  $this->_helper->layout()->disableLayout();
  $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(true);
}

If you want switch off them for all actions of controller put these lines into preDispatch() method:

public function preDispatch()
{
  $this->_helper->layout()->disableLayout();
  $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(true);
}