“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...
James McDonald
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 |...
X-Recruiting – Who would have thought
Was just checking a 301 redirect I've set up, and while looking at the the server output from the wget -S command I noticed that etsy.com has an X-Recruiting header. Etsy I hope your innovation brings all the coders to the yard.
C Struct Loses it’s Settings
A while ago I blogged about a Control system that commits a C Struct to a file on a disk and then reads the file and enters the C Struct data back into the control system. The operators started noticing inconsistent behaviours. And so I have had to investigate. After...
Struct is 652 Bytes Fwrite writes 656 Bytes
I am not a programmer but I had the need to write a C struct to disk When I then tried to write another of the same files to try and work-a-round a problem with the system they are used on I got a slightly large (by 4 bytes) file I was compiling the C program with my...
array_merge – And the winning key is!
Just a note to self about PHP array_merge The later array passed into array_merge overwrites the former, also if it's indexed with numerical keys then the values will just be appended. <?php $option_array = [ 'element' => 'ooa1', 'optionb' => 'ob1',...
OpenRPT Context Queries, Format Strings and URLs in PDFs
OpenRPT is a Report Write that is Bundled with xTuple in all it's flavours. It's simple and takes some getting used to in order to use it's power When creating a custom report there is a thing called a Context Query. These are the values that are available...

