Everything is a trade-off (of course, that’s actually another Maslow-type hammer, but nevertheless a useful one) and many times (for me at least) a lot of time is wasted on agonizing getting a good understanding what the trade-offs are before committing to an implementation. Of course, part of the reason is that I never want …
The problem Python script invoked from PHP via shell_exec and runs fine when PHP invoked from command line but fails when PHP triggered by browser access. Reason PHP, when triggered by a browser access is invoked by web server with the user www-data, while from the command line it is run as user ubuntu. Attempting …
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Download the VirtualBox image from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Download the 16.04 Ubuntu image for VirtualBox from www.osboxes.org (the credential details for logging in are here: https://www.osboxes.org/faqs/) Open VirtualBox, click the New icon, Select ‘Linux’ for type, ‘Ubuntu 64-bit’ for version (assuming you downloaded the VirtualBox 64bit vdi), click next a couple of times until you reach the …
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The way to select a column in Sublime Text on Windows is by using + and then pressing the up or down arrow keys. You might get a surprise though if you try it in the form of you entire screen display flipping upside down. Some people don’t even know this is possible to do …
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Someone sent you an invitation to an event as an .ics file, and you wish to add it to your Google calendar The first part is to import the file. To do this, click the + icon to the right of the “Add a friends calendar” located on the left side of the page. After …
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Many people are not aware that since the early days of the simple notepad app that comes bundled with Windows, it had the following undocumented feature: If you enter the text .LOG as the first line of the file, then every time you open the file with notepad, it will append the current date and …
Switching between various development environments, to save restart time, I wanted to start various services from OS/X only if they were not already running. Brew does not have a method to know whether a particular service is running (AFAIK), so the following example code parses the list of services returned by brew services list and …
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Wanted a quick way to find free high quality Android apps. Google’s Play Store isn’t exactly helpful for this kind of search so I created my own service. Check it out under the fun projects menu…
When you start having too many cases in your switch statement, it might be worth looking into using a function lookup. This is possible in all languages where functions are first class citizens… <?php $post = "hello"; $info = "3.1415"; //———————————————————– // Version 1 – using a switch statement //———————————————————– switch ($post) { …
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