OVFTool is used to migrate from VMware VMX to VirtualBox OVF. OVFTool are not delivered with the VMWare Player, so you have to register to VMWare website, download and install it. You can use ovftool in the CMD or PowerShell adding its folder (the folder, not the full path to the exe) to the environment…
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DaVinci Resolve – Useful tricks
DaVinci Resolve is a fantastic tool for easy video editing activities and I want to share a couple of suggestions. Insert new image or video in a specific point of the timeline If you simply drag and drop, the new clip will be added at the end of the timeline or will replace the one…
Generate ER graph image from MySQL database
One option is to use PhpMyAdmin Designer (find it in the top menu of PMA) that creates a quite interesting visualization of the tables, but if the tables are a lot it doesn’t work as expected when you export the pdf or the svg file. Another very interesting solution is to use MySQL Workbench, a…
[Solved] MySQL not decoding emojis and special characters
If you have this problem, you should check 4 things. Encoding of tables Open PhpMyAdmin and check whether the database is encoded with utf8mb4_unicode_ci and also all the columns have the same encodign or not Encoding of MySQL If you are on Linux, go to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and add or edit the following: Then restart mysql:…
Constant size of a widget across multiple devices and screen resolutions in Flutter
I was developing a feature in my app, in particular a map with some icon markers using this package. During my programming session I used an Icon widget and I set the icon size at 100. Good, everything run smoothly, but when I launched the app on different screens I found the following situation here…
Custom icon in flutter_background_service package
The flutter_background_service package is used to spawn services. These services stay in background doing stuff and they can also communicate with the Flutter app in foreground. In this post you will not find a guide throughout the usage of this package. Here you can find some notes about how to create the custom icon of…
Installation and usage of FontForge for Python
FontForge is a free, light and very powerful tool to edit fonts. You can use it as stand alone graphical software or as python library. Link to GUI tutorial to edit glyphs here. Useful notes for FontForge GUI version: If you edited a glyph and you want to generate the .ttf file, go to File…
How to wait for multiple futures with FutureBuilder in Flutter
Sometimes you may need to call different API in order to build a widget and you need all of these information at the same time. In Flutter it’s pretty easy to do this using the FutureBuilder widget and the wait() method. Let’s see here an example: Here above we have two futures calling two different…
Mini cheat sheet for Linux users setup
Here is a short list of commands on how to create a user in Linux and get started easily. First of all login as root Create a new user: Create a password for user Add user to sudo group: Create default user home folder: Edit default command line: and replace /bin/sh with /bin/bash