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Struct is 652 Bytes Fwrite writes 656 Bytes

I am not a programmer but I had the need to write a C struct to disk When I then tried to write another of the same files to try and work-a-round a problem with the system they are used on I got a slightly large (by 4 bytes) file I was compiling the C program with my...

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array_merge – And the winning key is!

Just a note to self about PHP array_merge The later array passed into array_merge overwrites the former, also if it's indexed with numerical keys then the values will just be appended. <?php $option_array = [ 'element' => 'ooa1', 'optionb' => 'ob1',...

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Netbeans Removes Indent from // Comments

Been using netbeans for PHP development and discovered that it will remove the leading whitespace from comments and then the comments inside a block of code are hard up against the left margin which looks weird. Not sure if there is a setting to stop this behaviour...

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CakePHP POST Failing

I was just trying to submit about 10 x 15 records... and found that cakephp was failing with a validation error. Found out it was due to the following in the php error log. [09-Jun-2016 19:16:22 Australia/Melbourne] PHP Warning:  Unknown: Input variables exceeded...

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Adding new fonts to TCPDF

Less agony way of doing it. Download your fonts and then run the following cd  /Users/jmcd/Sites/clam/vendor/tecnickcom/tcpdf tools/tcpdf_addfont.php -i /Users/jmcd/Downloads/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf cd fonts/ Bulk Load Multiple TTF's for i in ls...

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