Category Archives: Tech Tips

Dropbox Introduces Selective Sync

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Will

Everyone has been waiting for drop box to introduce selective sync. Selective Sync allows you to choose which folders to sync locally and which to leave on the server. They finally have in their latest BETA version! Learn how to get … Continue reading →

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Heredocs and Nowdocs in PHP

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Will

A here document (also called a here-document, a heredoc, a here-string or a here-script) is a way of specifying a string literal in command line shells including all the Unix shells (sh, csh, ksh, Bash and zsh) and the Windows … Continue reading →

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The PHP Object Expands in PHP5

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Will

Starting with PHP 5, the object model was rewritten to allow for better performance and more features. This was a major change from PHP 4. PHP 5 has a full object model. Among the features in PHP 5 are the … Continue reading →

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Good Practices in PHP

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Will

Here are a few tips for those of you who’d like to write good code in PHP: Set up a Development Server Set up a development server or sandbox. Don’t write, test, or develop code on a production server. If … Continue reading →

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gmail compose resize for chrome (extension / addon / add-on)

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Will

Bigger Gmail Compose Box Details: Have you ever wanted a larger compose box for gMail? especially when using g-mail to reply to a conversation? I give them credit, most times when composing a new message or using it in full-screen … Continue reading →

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Review: X10 Home Automation with Arduino

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Will

This is a re-post of  this blog posting since it appears to be a 404. —- My current project revolves around using the Arduino and the X10 home automation protocol and hardware. The gist of what I am doing with … Continue reading →

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Solved: Photoshop CS4 won’t let me paste my screen shot (print screen)

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Will

This is an update to this issue: Photoshop fails to paste my print screen from the clipboard. I’ve tested pasting in mspaint and it works fine. I’ve also tried creating a new document from clipboard but that won’t work either. … Continue reading →

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winrar right click archive “date” option on context menu

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Will

WinRAR has always been great. However, I find myself constantly renaming archives after using the right-click “add to archive” context menu item. I find myself prepending the files with the date created. I love streamlining things, so I decided to … Continue reading →

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Linux / Unix: Change to a softlink’s absolute path (directory)

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Will

If you have quick links from your home directory to other places on your server, you might find this command useful: cd -P `pwd` It’s the Change Directory (cd) command with the -P flag (evaluates true base path from softlinks), … Continue reading →

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Enabling Linked Tables in phpMyAdmin

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Will

This is what I was running when I got this to work: WAMP Server 2.0 Apache 2.0.63 PHP 5.2.8 MySQL 5.1.36 Step 1: Edit and run create_tables.sql This sql file is included with phpMyAdmin, in a wamp installation it can … Continue reading →

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