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IT related tech tips since 2006NextJS
I came across NextJS when looking at the excellent DevTips YouTube channel video regarding Going from Sketch to React.js #2 Building an Online Business NextJS solves some of the problems that I found hampered me in using React: Server Side Rendering out of the box...
Amazon Billing Estimation and it’s link to Myocardial Infarctions
Take a look at this graphic and see if you can see when I first looked at it why I might have felt a tightness in my chest and shortness of breath. I think the cause of this Forecast being so high in comparison to the preceding months spend is that I have purchased a...
MYSQL – Performing an UPDATE on a table you are SELECTing from
I needed to change a record in a customer table to be inactive if they hadn't received a delivery in the last 3 months. I got stuck with "Error Code: 1093. You can't specify target table 'customers' for update in FROM clause" UPDATE customers c1...
CakePHP 3.x Google No Translate Meta Tags
Just had a page think it was french despite having So to get CakePHP to make the recommended meta tags as listed here => https://stackoverflow.com/a/3130857/9230077 <?=...
Example Curl POST request for XML document from CakePHP
This is an example of using the curl command to request a CakePHP URL and post form data to it. It uses xmllint to format the output and highlight (under MacOS) to colorize the output #!/bin/sh # save as curlIt.sh curl -s \ -d...
Brew Wine on MacOS Ugly Fonts
Wine 3.0.1 MacOS 10.13.5 If you have recently done a brew install wine and found that suddenly your fonts are ugly. A work-a-round is: to remove the current version of XQuartz (2.7.11) and downgrade to XQuartz-2.7.9.dmg install the wine stable version...
Ubuntu 18.04 Display and Resolution problems VMWare VSphere Client v 5.5 Console
Can't seem to get Ubuntu 18.04 working on VMWare Console Mouse pointer is offset in the VMWare VSphere Client Console. Things just not working properly, going fullscreen in the console and the resolution was pegged at 1024x768 despite having tried open-vm-tools &...
Class XMLReader does not exist
Just on the Joomla 3.8.8 "You have post-installation messages" page and when I click the "Read Messages" button I get taken to a page with an error message: At the moment I have plenty of XML modules installed but not the one I need: php -m |...
PHP7.2 Image Magick
On a brew installed php7.2 on my MacOS 10.13.5 I get an error when running /usr/local/php5/bin/php from the command line: Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/imagick.so' (tried:...