I checked out YOP Poll this evening; a wordpress polling plugin. Here are my notes.
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Flickr Slide Shows
This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed. I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…
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CISSP 8 Domains
The (ISC)2 amended the domains within the CISSP in 2015. This document, the CISSP 8 Domain Refresh Summary Guide 15042015 summarises the changes.
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Flash
It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes.
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Redshift
Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and that this growth had significant implications for systems designers.
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WordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.
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DaaS
I was thinking about DaaS and how to use RDP to access a modern desktop from my Tablet and my thoughts moved to Azure although I have not given up on AWS. In fact, I will be faster with AWS and actually have an account. Here’s the links and reading …
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Wifi on my linux laptop
My HP Probook Wifi has stopped working. It uses Elementary OS 0.4. Loki. Here are my notes!
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YANF web calendar
I came across https://tockify.com, it seems to be a calendar implemented as Software-as-service and access via http. It could be useful for wordpress (or other CMS) sites where plugins are unavailable but html is.
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WordPress 301 Redirects
I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …
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A map of the UK using the HTML5 Maps Plugin.
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Labour & WordPress
The Labour Party are moving from the Nationbuilder web site to a customised wordpress environment. Here are my notes …
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HUGO
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes , I tried three times, the most recent attempt in Dec 2022. …
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Small Scale CRM
I offered my advice to a correspondent who asked for advice on data mapping between old and new data models for a membership system. They are a smallish non-profit. I did some research which I hope you find interesting or useful. My advice is shaped by my experience which includes as you can see, a…
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Skype & Windows 10 (Versions)
I originally wrote this in 2018, the solution to the system freeze was to use a W10 reset function. I had to revisit Skype & W10 in May 2020. 2020 This time round I originally identified a problem as Skype failing to open the video window, or failing to write it to the screen. I…
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