IT Tips

I have a table holding the names of `items` to be loaned out mysql> select * from items; +----+-------+ | id | name | +----+-------+ | 1 | item1 | | 2 | item2 | | 3 | item3 | | 4 | item4 | | 5 | item5 | +----+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) I have another...

Update: Apparently systemd controlled services perform some sort of /tmp redirection. See below Weird problem Can't find mysql OUTFILE when writing it to /tmp I was using this mysql client command: SELECT A, B INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/result.txt' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','...

I have been trying to learn CakePHP which is a Model View Controller PHP development framework. But in the process I'm having to learn PHP and have discovered some interesting stuff. My first ow wow that's interesting moment was that class and function names are...

Problem: When trying to run the Cake 2.x Console you get the following error ./Console/cake: line 31: exec: php: not found Cause: PHP installed in non-standard path Solution: Add the the path to your php binary to the the path to the top of your cake ./Console/cake...

Problem: Just got an error returned when trying to access GMail from Google Chrome:  "Temporary Error (404m)", "your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable" , "Numeric Code: 7" Cause: Using the "User-Agent Switcher for Chrome" for to test a mobile website I'm...

An sample image (originally in GIMP xcf format): Becomes: Using: <?php $xcf2png = '/usr/bin/xcf2png'; $xcf_file = 'gimp_sample.xcf'; $jpg_file = 'gimp_sample.jpg'; $png_file = 'gimp_sample.png'; $tiled_file = 'gimp_tiled.png'; $cmd = $xcf2png . ' ' . $xcf_file . '...

In your view file app/View/Controller/view.ctp or at the top of your layout app/View/Layouts/layout.ctp put $this->Html->script( 'jquery.min', array( 'inline' => false, 'block' => 'script_bottom' ) ); # or multiple scripts $this->Html->script( array(...

Ran into a problem trying to load a .d file with the progress editor.  I think there was a unique index on the first first field of the msg_mstr table so I had to update the records using CIM from inside QAD. This is the script I used to convert it from .d format to...

Adding to my similar post about Google Zoom to Map Legend Mapping