My audio setup

I have been working from home since 2015. I had to move with my wife to a small city, but I was able to keep my job at the University and regularly travel to our home town to meet my colleagues. However in 2017 started working for a company located in the UK and videoconferences became very common in my day to day.

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Author's profile picture Jorge López

Honoring DNS servers when connecting to a VPN on Ubuntu

I do not certainly hate systemd, I see its power, but in my opinion some of its ideas are not helping at all, or maybe they were not executed the best way possible.

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Author's profile picture Jorge López

How to restore an issue on Redmine

I take care of several Redmine based platforms, and every now and then I get a report about an issue that disappeared under unknown circumstances. Logs show that it is usually caused by someone with too many privileges who accidentally deleted the issue, but that’s another story.

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Author's profile picture Jorge López

How to generate XML in PHP (in a painless way)

I have always avoided working with XML. Parsing and writing it always felt too difficult. I thought that way until I found an actually easy and manageable way of working with it. I will focus on the process of generating XML documents using PHP.

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Author's profile picture Jorge López

Upgrading a large ownCloud instance

These last weeks I had to upgrade a large ownCloud installation. It was the community edition, so there was little to none information about how to upgrade such big instances. Many ownCloud community installations seem to be running on small organizations, so most recommendations about upgrading were not valid for this instance. I had to upgrade 3 major releases, from ownCloud 4.5 to ownCloud 7.

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Author's profile picture Jorge López