Here is another example of Apple making things easy for average users and convoluted for more advanced users. Trying to set up git on MacOS, you have to run something like this early on: $ git config –global user.name “User Name” $ git config –global user.email “user@address.com” This should work, unless you installed Xcode some time before and forgotten all about…
Some themes in WordPress (like this one) only allow an image logo in place of a title. Here is a quick way to replace that image by a text title using jQuery: 1- Install the WP-Headmaster plugin. This is a great way to allow more control over the header of pages in your WordPress site, including injection of jQuery code.…
And another weekend wasted on tech issues. This time, a visit to the Apple Store about my ongoing data and connectivity issues with my iPhone 4S convinced me to take drastic measure – a full reset and reinstall of all apps instead of a restore from backup. Apparently, the phone diagnostics tool used by the Genius showed the phone considered…
Sometimes this past weekend I had the joy to find my wordpress instances dead with a Server error 500. All of them. At once. I first suspected an issue with the database, or maybe a server patch impacting PHP or WordPress, but a quick and helpful call to the helpdesk of my host confirmed that was not the case. The…
Since tweets are backed up automatically in this blog and prefixed with ‘Tweet:’, I thought it would be better to replace the prefix by a Twitter icon. jQuery can do that nicely: [code] jQuery(‘h2 a’).html(function(i,html) { return html.replace(/Tweet\:/g, ‘‘); }); [/code]
After some dusting up of my laptop hard drive, I ended up with about 80 gigabytes to clean up from the Trashcan. Using the MacOS interface was taking a long time. A very … long.. time. As in more than six hours and barely a dent in the volume of files to delete. The solution? Use the command line and…
So.. one of the PCs at home started acting up. Blue screen of death after a few minutes on. Probably driver related (worked fine in Safe Mode). After trying a new video card and removing sound related drivers, the issue remained. Time for a refresh. Conveniently, I had a DVD of Windows 8 Pro purchased a few days ago. Great!…
It’s a familiar chain of installation: In order to install NLTK for a workshop about Natural Language Processing First you have to install Python, then install NLTK and dependencies, including Python Setup tools. Find out Numpy doesn’t compile because GCC is not available No worries, GCC is part of XCode tools, which requires a 3Gb download package (!) and signing…
Google Webmaster tools alerted me to a recent infection of one of my sites with malware. The infected area turned out to be a simple directory of alumni from my former school, written in ColdFusion. I thought I had been clever by having a two steps confirmation process before updating entries in the database but that was written long ago…
So here I was, ready to enjoy my brand new Intuos 5 graphic tablet (received as an early birthday present). It was unwrapped, software and drivers installed, plugged into my machine… and nothing. No LED light indicating activity. No cursor. And of course, no touchpad. A quick look under the system logs indicated errors with ‘being able to enumerate the…