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IT related tech tips since 2006An end to the never ending story of ReactJS development environment setup
So I just learn't that there is a command that can create a react environment quickly and easily. And it includes the cool web server that reloads every time you edit your component code and also it has a build command to compile it to production.... A lot easier...
Atom Text Editor – I may have found my netbeans replacement
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...
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...