Author Archives: Etay Cohen-Solal

About Etay Cohen-Solal

Development Specialist, Artist and Activist
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How to fix wrong post title on Google – WordPress Title SEO

Title SEO – The Symptoms

beside the obvious, a title which you don’t want to show (in my case – showing the name of the blog only instead of article name)
you should check the code behind of the page.

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VMWare Workstation start on boot CentOS

Installing npm using install.sh on CentOS 6.3

npm

Prerequisites

you need to have Node.js installed, configured and working.
How to install Node.js on centos 6.3.
also, check you have curl installed:

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yum install curl
yum install curl

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VMWare Workstation start on boot CentOS

Fix cannot find module ‘block-stream’’ in npm Node.js on CentOS 6.3

Overview

While writing  and exploring on Node.js I did lots of ‘yum remove/install’ for npm node.js.
after a while I realized that npm wasn’t installing anything and just returned an Error: cannot find module ‘block-stream’.
Another thing was that the folder ‘/usr/lib/nodejs/npm’ was lacking the ‘node_modules’ folder which includes its dependencies.
yum remove/install npm didn’t helped, the error also happened when I tried running ‘npm update’ or ‘npm install’.

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VMWare Workstation start on boot CentOS

CentOS Node.js / Express.js / Derby.js / Meteor.js is EASY!

 CentOS Node.js / Express.js / Derby.js / Meteor.js is EASY!

In the following tutorial I will show you how to install CentOS Node.js and the Express.js /Derby.js and Meteor.js frameworks.

I am using CentOS minimal 6.5, but the following instructions have been tested on 6.3+ and probably works on earlier versions also.

Note: this article was updated in 02, march, 2014.

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The BEST Tools for your website

Introduction

In each new project, choosing the right tools is the first step to success. It can be said that most tasks could be accomplished using most tools, but with cons/pros over the others.
Should I use PHP? ASP.NET? CMS? WORDPRESS? JOOMLA? MVC? ZEND? SYMPHONY? so many names and frameworks, one usally returns to what he best knows.

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Premiere Pro tips: Fill timeline with default effect

Premiere Pro tips

The Problem

In several occasions, I had to fill an entire sequence with defult effect (additive dissolve) between every two clips. as sometime I have more then 500 clips, it makes it takes a while and lot of effort…

I have developed a quick way to automate this task.

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Android on PC / Laptop, try or install the EASY way.

Android-x86 project just released Android-x86 4.0-RC1.
now you can run android on PC / Laptop.

in this article, i will explain how to easily create a USB drive to boot your computer from.
you can try a live android version from this USB (without affecting your installed OS)
and/or you could install it if you want.

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