After watching a rather good ReactJS youtube tutorial here ==> https://youtu.be/pTHCwUdGFkc I noticed the guys who did the tutorial were using Atom. So I have just downloaded it and found that it has all the special sauce to do ReactJS, HTML, PHP and a host of...
James McDonald
WSUS Offline as a work-a-round for Windows 7 Windows Update Failing
If you have installed Windows 7 and then you just can't download and install the latest patches try WSUS Offline
Form POST missing data when added via JQuery .load()
https://forum.jquery.com/topic/reload-dom-after-injecting-form-elements#14737000002044320 Just had an issue where I was using JQuery to add form fields to a page and when I would submit the form all the added fields were missing. Some forums suggested that I check the...
Installing Windows 7 on a MSI All-in-One-PC Pro-20E-4BW
I have recently had to install Windows 7 on a computer that was manufactured for secure boot and for Windows 8 and above. I used the the Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool-Installer-en-US.exe from Microsoft to copy the Windows 7 x64 iso to a USB key and tried to boot the...
Lets Encrypt
Was doing some work for an Interior Designer based in Newcastle NSW who is using Squarespace as a hosting platform. Squarespace has partnered with Let's Encrypt to provide SSL https connections for every one of their websites. I also have a friend who runs a Building...
Command Line xTuple DB restore on mac
This is for a restore to a remote host running postgresql on a custom port and using the pg_restore provided by pgAdmin on a mac. gzcat xtuple-2016-11-07_1412.dump.gz | \ /Applications/pgAdmin3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/pg_restore \ -v -p 5434 -h 10.20.20.20 -U...
xTuple Postbooks Edition 4.10.0 RC FTW
So for a while I was using Simple Invoices to raise invoices for my Small IT Consultancy Business. However in a short space of time I found that it just didn't have the bells and whistles that I needed. Being an avid fan of Open Source software I looked around and...
Perl Script to Parse PDF Invoice and Send Email
This script uses perl to run pdftotext to grab the text from a PDF Invoice. It parses and extracts document meta data and then uses that to construct a meaningful filename and attach and send the PDF to the correct recipient. You could automate this by placing a watch...
Just removed APCu and installed OPCache & it seems faster
http://php.net/manual/en/opcache.installation.php https://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-opcache/ Out with the old in with the new yum install php56u-opcache yum remove php-pecl-apcu service php-fpm restart Run this command in your...
Cape Schank
“Deleted” Group Policy Deployed Printer Will Not Delete on the Client
Just had an issue where I tried to remove a printer connection on a Windows 7 Pro workstation after having deleted the printer on the Windows SBS 2011 Server (aka. Windows 2008 R2) and on the client a dialog pops up saying that access was denied for...
[SOLVED] MacOS Sierra Scanning Fail
Fixed It! Update: So I just made a change to the printer configuration NOT the Mac Sierra software and the scanner is now working. Log into the OfficeJet Pro 8620 Printer using the web interface and do the following change to the General Network Protocol Settings...
Updating a Paradox DB using PHP and the Paradox Extension
A few years ago I blogged about reading a paradox DB. Recently I had need of updating some records and thought I would blog about it. See below. https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/reading-a-paradox-db-under-windows-using-xampp Firstly there doesn't seem to be a modern...
A Favourite Quote That My Sister Introduced Me To
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is...
VMWare Fusion conflicts with encfs on MacOS Sierra
I had a work-a-round for osxfuse not working https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/mac-osxfuseencfs-conflicts-with-vmware-fusion-7-1-2-so-try-safe-1-4 but http://www.getsafe.org no longer works since the update to MacOS Sierra EncFS Password: the OSXFUSE file system is not...
Home Sales and the Role of the Interior Designer
Just recently I've become mildly addicted to shows like Flip or Flop, Fixer Upper and Masters of Flip of these I think I like Masters of Flip the most. The interplay of the husband and wife as they try and renovate a home and on-sell it is very entertaining, and the...
Develop CakePHP in 3 Locations – HOME TEST LIVE
I have a CakePHP application that I develop on my MacBook and then push to a "TEST" install environment and then across to a LIVE environment when I'm happy. In the past I've done the following at each instance after I have git pull | fetched | merged: Edit...
How to SELECT from between double quotes in a MySQL column and update a column in the same table
Note the following data: MariaDB [pallets3]> select options, title from menus where options != ''; +-------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | options | title |...