MySQL Root Password Recovery

Having trouble with a lost MySQL root password or root login not working?
Here's a step-by-step MySQL Root Password Recovery tutorial.
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Customize Layouts in Virtuemart 2

While looking how to to customize the cart view in Virtuemart 2.0, I've come across with this simple step-by-step explanation: What's new in VM2.0? Templates!
Fantastically easy! Just copy the component views files into your ./debugtemplate/html/com_virtuemart/<component> directory and code away.

For instance, to give your checkout page a different look, just copy components\com_virtuemart\views\cart\tmpl\default.php into ./debug<your template>/html/com_virtuemart/cart/default.php and hack it.

Actually this follows the MVC Joomla! extensions pattern, so one can apply this customization technique to any component.

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jQuery Calendar Date Picker in Django Forms

A common problem that developers face in Django is to have a calendar picker.
Here's a simple solution how to set up jQuery Calendar Date Picker in Django.

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It takes three years to build a business

A very interesting post about quiting your day job and own business expectations: It takes three eyes to build a business.

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XAMPP & Skype Conflict

I've just found out that, in my Windows 7, Skype and XAMPP have a conflict.
Apache cannot start if Skype is running because it states that port 80 is already in use. When configured to port 8080, Apache does not start because port 443 is in use.

The solution?
Terminate Skype, start Apache, start Skype.

Weird...

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MetaMod Placeholder Position Display Management

When using Joomla! sometimes one requires to hide some information, like a specific menu, or an entire position.

MetaMod let’s you do this in a quite easy way.
One can follow their documented technique of moving stuff from an non-existing position into the real position, or one can use a simpler strategy that does not imply having virtual positions and nor moving stuff between these virtual positions and the real position: MetaMod Position Display Management.

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Translating Math Into Code

"Discrete mathematical structures form the foundation of computer science."

This opening sentence resumes the article about: Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell and Python, that show how math is translated into code.

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