Just using Scribus to design and print some lapel cards Regarding Scribus - It seems that the stable version will not run or install easily on Fedora 32 so I have had to make do with the Scribus Version 1.5.6.svn Beta. So after getting around the flakey behavior of...
Switching PHP version on MacOS with brew
Writing a web application and using the some new bells and whistles in PHP such as $var = $var ?? $othervar; only supported in 7.4 php -v # php7.3 brew unlink php@7.3 brew install php@7.4
Advanced git
https://youtu.be/duqBHik7nRo Just putting this here for later. A git talk that covers everything that I wonder about with git. Also the speaker has a book which going by her previous courses will be excellent.
Use FORCE INDEX
Just putting this here as I have a SELECT in MySQL that was taking 1.946 sec to return 20 records from a table with 159884 records when using a ORDER BY DESC on a DATETIME field Creating an index and changing the FROM to FORCE INDEX () dropped it down to 0.00079 sec /...
pgAdmin / pgcli could not send data to server: Socket is not connected
My setup is My home network is IPv6 enabled. I have an AAAA record specifying the IPv6 address of the Amazon EC2 instances Elastic IP <IPv6 enabled home network> | <internet> | <Dockerized Postgres on EC2 Instance> Getting this error message when attempting...
Just discovered the Elegant Themes — Visual Builder
So I have been using the Divi Template from Elegant Themes and really have paid no attention for a long time. But just today I was looking at the Youtube and discovered the Visual Builder. To describe it I would say it gives you Squarespace style inline editing within...
Search / Replace in Entire Document with Scribus
Scribus is a great piece of software but there seems to be a missing piece of functionality. You can search and replace in a single text frame but you can't seem to search and replace in the whole document. So if your document has multiple text frames then you can't...
Elegant Themes Visual Builder No Worky on NGINX Server
Symptoms: You are running php-fpm and nginx You can enter the visual builder from the home page https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?et_fb=1 but not from a another url such as https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/contact?et_fb=1 Problem: The Divi Visual Builder uses ?et_b=1 query...
Cry Havoc and Release the Dogs of War — PHP 7.1.5 Upgrade Gotchas
So just doing a Joomla 3.7.1 to PHP7.1.5 upgrade. I have Chronoforms v5 installed (https://www.chronoengine.com/downloads/chronoforms) which works brilliantly btw. However on upgrade to PHP 7.1.5 and trying to save a form I got "0 Cannot use string offset as an array"...
Postbooks Print PDF to Email – Ugly PDF Fix
When printing from Postbooks you can Print to PDF or PostScript file or to a local or network connected printer. I would like to print invoices from Postbooks to my email account so I can then forward the email on to the client which has the benefit of keeping a paper...
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