aws

Setting up a Chef 12 Stack for Laravel on AWS Opsworks

Hello everyone, a long time since the last time I wrote an article here. Not because I've not been doing tech stuff but because most of my time is dedicated to my job and my side projects and other activities have been

laravel

Laravel testing and migrations trick

Well, today I've encountered a small problem when working with Laravel, and I decided to use a hacky trick to bypass it. Here it is explained, why does it happen and what to do in order to solve it. First of all,

laravel

Laravel authorization policies for methods without arguments like create

I was implementing authorization policies [https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/authorization#policies] in my Laravel app for determining what users can do what actions. As stated in the documentation, if you want to check a policy, you can do something like this in

laravel

How to contribute to an existing Composer package

These days I'm working with a colleague in a PHP package for extending Laravel called laravel-crud [https://github.com/carlosafonso/laravel-crud]. This package adds some functionality to Laravel in order to speed and have a cleaner code for typical CRUD resources in

linux

Bash script to set a wallpaper depending on the screen resolution

The other day I decided to use an old screen as a secondary monitor for my laptop, sadly the wallpaper that is set using hroot was horribly stretched and I didn't like the result at all. So I've written this

Blender

Blender cartoon head

I've been practicing sculpting using Blender. This cartoon head is what I got.

Blender

Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender (Part 2)

This post is the first part of a series, you can read the other posts here: Part I - Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender (Part 1) [https://namelivia.com/final-fantasy-vii-scene-reconstruction-using-blender-part-1] Part III - Importing the reconstructed Final Fantasy VII scene into Three.

NodeJS

Arduino + Owncloud temperature monitor

Finished product: This time I'm going to write about a little project I made some time ago. Since I wanted to solder the cables it's a good time to disassemble and assemble it again and show you how to make

php

Use git hooks to ensure you commit good code

In my job we are doing continuous integration by using Atlassian's Bamboo [https://es.atlassian.com/software/bamboo] (you can use any other product like Travis CI [https://travis-ci.org/]). That means that the code is automatically deployed to a server and

linux

Small script for setting a random Reddit wallpaper on Openbox

Recently I tuned my computer at work, and set Openbox as my desktop environment, which is my favorite Linux desktop environment, with my usual key bindings, configuration files and so. For setting a wallpaper I wasn't sure which one could I choose

meteorjs

Meteor, incompatibiliy between naxio:flash and mquandalle:jade

This is just a fast writing on a small issue I've discovered when writing a Meteor app. So I've you are trapped in the same situation I've spending a couple of hours and find this post when Googling

3dprinter

Using Slic3r with OctoPi / OctoPrint

Hello everyone, I've been recently working on the autonomy of the Prusa 3D printer I built [https://namelivia.com/first-sucessful-3d-print/]. One of the things I definitely had to improve was it's autonomy. The thing is that in the old days,

Blender

Using Blender and Imagemagick for creating spritesheets

Making a good pixel art spritesheet is an art that takes years to perfection. Also, a complete animation spritesheet takes a huge amount of work to finish. Danger Dash animations by Abysswolf [http://abysswolf.deviantart.com]. As I am not that good doing spritesheets

laravel

MySQL data to Laravel seed

We had a Laravel application, one team member was using an old version of the application for inserting data through the user interface, at the same time we were developing all kind of changes in the database schema, and the application in general, sadly

3D

Building and installing Smartbody on Archlinux

Recently I've discovered Smartbody [http://smartbody.ict.usc.edu/], this software bundles a lot of different and complex features for animating human characters, provides things like locomotion, steering, object manipulation, lip syncing, gazing, nonverbal behavior and retargeting in real time. It even

Blender

Importing the reconstructed Final Fantasy VII scene into Three.js

This post is the second part of a series, you can read the previous and next post here: Part I - Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender (Part 1) [https://namelivia.com/final-fantasy-vii-scene-reconstruction-using-blender-part-1/] Part II - Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender

Blender

Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender (Part 1)

This post is the first part of a series, you can read the next posts here: Part II - Final Fantasy VII scene reconstruction using Blender (Part 2) [https://namelivia.com/final-fantasy-vii-scene-reconstruction-using-blender-part-2] Part III - Importing the reconstructed Final Fantasy VII scene into Three.

laravel

Eloquent query through many tables

Today this took me a while to figure out, so I'm going to write it down here, maybe it can be helpful for someone. I'm using Eloquent, the Laravel ORM and I need to perform this query without getting into

3dprinter

First sucessful 3D print

I've spent a whole year building a 3D printer in my spare time. As I don't have too much has taken me this long, but the time has come and my 3D printer is complete. Here is a video of

ruby

Reviewing old code: Practical use of blocks and Proc

In my journey of getting the best Ruby style code of an old video game I programmed, I have found a good example for the use of Ruby's blocks and Proc, I'm not 100% sure if using blocks it'

ruby

Reviewing old code: The Ruby way

Some time ago I made a racing videogame, written in Ruby using Gosu [http://www.libgosu.org]. Since I came from C++, SDL videogame programming, I didn't have my brain set into "Ruby mode" and most of my code is

Bird

Touch events for Flappy Sonic

Some time ago during the Flappy Bird madness I made a tutorial [https://namelivia.com/how-to-create-a-flappy-bird-clone/] on how to make the game using EaselJS so you can play it on your browser. There were some details left that I will be fixing as long

Gimp

GIMP Recipe: GameBoy effect

This is going to be a fast and easy tutorial on how to give an old school Game Boy look to a picture using GIMP. 1.- First get the picture you want and open it using GIMP [http://www.gimp.org/] . I'

Blender

Makehuman + Blender = Awesome

There are some open source and free (as in freedom and as in free beer) projects that are so amazing that I don't know why they aren't widely known. Some of those amazing projects is Makehuman [http://www.makehuman.org]

Archlinux

Archlinux volume control script

As some of you may know, I use a Archlinux+Openbox desktop environment in my computer. This means I have a superlight system that allows me to work fast and my laptop never gets obsolete. The B-side of this is that you have to