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QCAD now Supports Complex Line Types

https://plus.google.com/116353478893976991600/posts/aRevgCpC1He I have been looking for an application that will do train tracks over an image...  QCAD as of version 3.7.3 now supports an extra series of "complex line types" This is why I continue to purchase the...

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Change Progress DB Block Size

Been a while since I posted anything... And I found this in my drafts. I can't remember if this is correct but no one is wrong on the internet so... prostrct create db-name db-name.st -blocksize 8192 procopy $DLC/empty8.db db-name   While you can create a...

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TCPDF Tables with Word Wrapping Cells

TCPDF Tables with Word Wrapping Cells

This code is used to create a table using TCPDF the example I got it from used Cell which didn't word wrap and then when switching to writeCell the borders were messed up so I had to change the code from another example to properly write the cells and their borders....

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Virtual Box Windows XP Clonezilla Restore

JoyceMayne was offering a 100-300 for  your old PC for a new laptop deal so I had to give them my old computer before I could transfer everything to the new laptop so I used clonezilla-live-2.2.4-12-i686-pae.iso to take an image of the old Windows XP box before I...

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Testing Session TimeOut with CakePHP

By default CakePHP uses the session timeout value in php.ini But sometimes you might want to specify a very short Session timeout for testing your code To do that you open Config/core.php and add a value to the "Session" Configure::write area...

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CakePHP with TCPDF

This is brilliant:- http://www.martin-schenk.es/en/cakephp-2-pdf-with-tcpdf/ in View/Layout/pdf/pdf.ctp <?php header("Content-type: application/pdf"); echo $content_for_layout; But with google chrome using the $pdf->Output('filename.pdf', 'I') option you get the...

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