Toggen Technology Blog
This is a collection of posts starting in 2006. Focusing mainly on Linux, Open Source Software and technical tips collected over several decades in IT
Just discovered you can write in Markdown with WordPress
Heading 2 Just insert a Markdown block using gutenburg and away you go I would like to create a definition list Defintion List Heading : This is the definition text Heading 3 And I quote Heading 4 A Code Block { "some": "json" } A code block 2...
XDebug over SSH into Container with VSCode
My Layout I'm connecting from VSCode running on Windows 10 Pro to the Linux host via SSH. The Linux Host has the project files and there is a docker container running on the Linux Host which provides the LAMP stack development environment. This is how I got XDebug...
Ubuntu 20.04 files created in /etc/sudoers.d not working
In my Ubuntu 20.04 installation the /etc/sudoers.d directory has the following default files 99-snapd.conf README So you would assume that creating a file such as 50-mysudo.conf with the contents needed to allow passwordless sudo would work jamesm ALL=(ALL:ALL)...
Using GNU date to convert between timezones
Just being doing an AWS EC2 volume enlargement and the output of StartTime is in UTC aws --profile gap ec2 describe-volumes-modifications --volume-id vol-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Output: { "VolumesModifications": [ { "VolumeId": "vol-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",...
CakePHP 2 Validating Multiple Forms on One Page while Posting to same Controller Action
I have a CakePHP 2.x view that creates multiple forms, one for each production line. By default each form is validated by the LineSetup Model and saves to the 'line_setup' table in the database The Controller Action the forms share is LineSetupsController/configure()...
E-Commerce Learnings
I have a client who had two Wordpress Woocommerce Stores hosted for $20 each a month on cPanel Servers On inspecting the sites I found Each had between a dozen and two dozen out of date plugins (some had been removed from the Wordpress Plugins Directory because of...
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James is an IT Professional based in Melbourne, Australia.
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