Bryan Veloso

Category: Geekery

  • Formidable Calendar Custom Time Slots Per Hour of the Day

    Formidable form building is one of the best and most extensive, fully customisable, WordPress plugin out there. You can create all types of forms you can think of. From a simple contact form, to a complex booking form, or even a full-featured user database with lots of filters and search features.

    But even if Formidable Pro is this powerful, there are still some things that Formidable Pro cannot do. One is allowing different number of slots per hour of the day. Out of the box, Formidable’s calendar and time field can let you limit the number of slots per day by a few lines of code.
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  • Galaxy Note 7 Release Date in Singapore and Philippines?

    Galaxy Note 7 Release Date in Singapore and Philippines?

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    Because I’m currently in Singapore (sometimes in the Philippines), I’m now looking to upgrade from S7 Edge to S7, after finding out that it will be released this August 19, 2016, world wide!!!! Yep, the newest Samsung flagship phone has this stunning iris scanner, which is suppperrr awesome! I don’t know if this is the first phone with an iris scanner, maybe there are other china-made phones that I haven’t heard of that already has this feature way before Samsung integrated it with their latest phone model. And oh, the Note 7 is built for a better VR experience. The new, all-black “Gear VR 2” will be released together with the Note 7. And yes, it’s safe to assume that it will work exclusively with the Note 7.
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  • Kickass.to is dead, but there are mirror sites like dxtorrent.com, etc

    Kickass.to is dead, but there are mirror sites like dxtorrent.com, etc

    As we all know, Kickass just died 24 hours ago. The owner of the site was arrested by the he U.S. Government 24 hours ago. It’s all over the news. If you still don’t know about the news, just click the “all over” and “the news” hyperlinks that I just typed before this sentence.

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    Right now, I’m using dxtorrent.com and thepiratebay.org as Kickass alternative. Just last year, I switched to Kickass because PirateBay was down. Now, it’s back up, and Kickass became the #1 torrent site in the world. All leading Torrent sites easily get noticed, that’s why it’s now down. Haha!

    Anyway, if you have any other suggestions on Kickass torrents alternatives, please feel free to leave a comment below.

    PS: Here’s a reddit I found online about Kickass alternative. It’s worth checking out!

  • Magento Fix on simplexml_load_string error at lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php

    If you’ve noticed that your system.log’s size is increasing every minute because of the error logs like this:

    Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383
    2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 292: parser error : expected '>' in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383
    2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): nkey.png</233><234>manufacturers/image.jpg</234><235>manufacturers/image.jpg</ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383
    2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383
    2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 292: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: config line 1 and unparseable in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383
    2016-06-27T14:01:04+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: simplexml_load_string(): nkey.png</233><234>manufacturers/image.jpg</234><235>manufacturers/image.jpg</ in /lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 383

    Then consider your problem solved. After hours and hours of googling and searching at stackoverflow, I found nothing. Most of the solutions to the problem that is related to the simplexml_load_string error is something that is related to an XML file. But my problem wasn’t.
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  • git: User was holding a relation lock for too long

    git: User was holding a relation lock for too long

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    If you encountered this error while pushing your recent change to your git repo, worry not. You’re not alone. Just recently, like a few minutes ago, I’m having trouble pushing my latest commit to my Bitbucket repo. Good thing I found out that it’s just a bitbucket issue, not really an issue with my repo or with my server or with my localhost.

    Below is the exact error I’m getting while trying to push my latest commits:
    remote: canceling statement due to conflict with recovery
    remote: LINE 1: …er”.”date_joined” FROM “bb_repository” INNER JOIN “auth_user…
    remote: DETAIL:  User was holding a relation lock for too long.
     ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

    I actually tried pushing it again and again, switch branches, cloned a new repo, but no can do. Nothing I tried worked, it’s because Bitbucket is having issues, not me. Haha!

    Let’s just wait for Bitbucket to fix the issue and not panic.

  • Google Adsense cannot login using Chrome, but in Safari, you can!

    Google Adsense cannot login using Chrome, but in Safari, you can!

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    If you’ve encountered this issue last year, it seems it’s still not fixed. When attempting to sign in via adsense.google.com using Google Chrome, you’ll be prompted with this error message: “Looks like this Google account isn’t associated with an AdSense account. That’s okay. You can either sign in with the Google account associated with AdSense, or sign up for an AdSense account today.”. I thought this is just temporary. All I know is that Google is signing in your Adsense account using an individual account data, not your actual account data. This happened to accounts who signed up with Adsense prior to the implementation of Google Single Sign-on. So it’s prompting that your email is not associated to Adsense at all.
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  • 3 Important traits of a brilliant app design company

    3 Important traits of a brilliant app design company

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    You have your heart set on creating an app for a mobile device. The only problem is that you have no idea how to go about doing it. You have an idea that you think is very good. However, you don’t have any idea what to do with your great idea. You do not possess anywhere near the amount of technical skills that it will take to get your app idea off the ground. Does this sound like a situation that you currently find yourself in? If so, you will need some help if your app is ever going to be a success. Here are some of the traits of a brilliant app design company.
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  • March 2016 Update: Chrome Dev Tools + Mobile Browser Emulator

    March 2016 Update: Chrome Dev Tools + Mobile Browser Emulator

    All of a sudden, Google Chrome’s mobile browser emulator and developer tools turned to white! Yeah! It’s suddenly updated without prior notice, or even any prompt about it if I want to switch to the new emulator or stick to the old one. The old one looks like this, with grids and a layout that I’m suited to use.

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    Screenshot courtesy of developer.chrome.com. Right now, everything turned into one, the devices are reduced, there are no network throttling options, and it’s just annoyingly neat and simple.

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    The rulers are also gone, I don’t know how to make it appear again. I wish I could just roll back and use the old interface. This new one sucks, big time. There are so many changes in the developer tools that I’m so lazy to explore. I love change, but a sudden change like this without prior notice or even a prompt is undeniably annoying.

    My current Chrome version is 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit). Geez, I really wish I could downgrade from this version to the old one and use the old developer tools instead.
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