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Google Docs to Markdown to WordPress
I’ve started a fairly standard process of writing a Google Doc when I’m trying to learn something technical that I don’t understand and then if its half useful posting it to WordPress. I know I could then copy paste the code from there to WordPress – but I’m a fan of writing WordPress posts in…
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Windows Netbeans Composer notes
This is for installing the main packages that Netbeans suggests in the Tools > Options > PHP (tab) I’m running the following setup currently [21st April 2015]: Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Netbeans 8.0.2 The version of Composer doesn’t really matter PHP 5.3.28 (It’s sooo last decade, I know…) tldr; Just the commands: Then the files to…
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Installing Node.js on Windows 8
Node comes with an installer, but I hit a couple of bugs that knackered my initial attempts to call either node or npm. I followed the installation instructions trying to run a command for the first time and got ‘node’ is not recognized as an internal or external command. For anyone else with the same…
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rebeccapurple
This site’s background is rebeccapurple, its based on the memory of Eric Meyer’s daughter. I have a daughter of two, so reading his tales of anguish are deeply moving.
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Translating WordPress plugins
If you didn’t write the plugin – how do you translate it? I found lots of information for plugin developers to make their plugins translatable but not for people that just want to translate it. Executive summary / tl;dr Edit: The Codestyling Localization plugin I suggested previously isn’t available from WordPress directly any more. Instead…
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One woman can’t have a baby in nine months
Originally posted on A billion monkeys can't be wrong: As all software developers know, nine women can’t have a baby in a month. Or in Fred Brooks’s more elegant phrasing: “The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” (The Mythical Man Month, p. 17) The point, of…
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TeX fonts for the Web
I love the fonts that come out of LaTeX. However I’ve never seen sites displayed using the same fonts, so I wanted to find if it was available to put on a website. TLDR; It looks like you can get a very close free font called Latin Modern Roman. Self help This meant a bit…
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On depression, privilege, and online activism
On depression, privilege, and online activism Well said…
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Mini Plesk – VirtualHosts in Apache
There is Apache Documentation for setting up Virtual Hosts, good luck if you can implement something sensible direct from that, but otherwise read on. After umming and ahhing I finally decided to get some proper virtual hosts set up on a webserver of mine. This was brought on by creating a virtual host for a…
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Ian Channing 