Bunch of problems at home and work. I have lived without this for ages, time to solve it.
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Spacious Theme
By themegrill.com, they say, Spacious is incredibly spacious with a clean responsive design. And it has many awesome features like image slider, theme options & many more! I am cobsidering to freshen up http://davelevy.info, to see what it looks like, see http://davelevy.info
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User Styles & Stylish
I experimented with User Styles when I was using the old NWN Vault, because their look and feel was terrible, the vault has gone now and the code i.e. the customisations are held on the browser’s disk, so a growing use of cloud computing challenges this as an answer, but overwriting the CSS can be…
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Auto-translating a web page
This page was originally set up in 2015 when looking at using REST to invoke web site translations. My original code is still available on the test web site and below but Google & Babelfish have changed their APIs. I decided to refactor the page in 2022. The changes in the google API have been…
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Multiple Audio channels on Windows 8
For various reasons at work, I am mucking around with multiple audio channels, from mic to disk, from mic to app, etc.. Windows 8, doesn’t seem to have an easy way to switch, or at least the sound control panel applet is hidden away behind several buttons…. no it’s not, searching for sound will find…
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New looks for web sites
Good web design is changing again. Is it the influence of the growth of mobile devices? It’s certainly influenced my adoption of Nulis on the blog. They are picture rich, with lots of white space, borderless and short columns (often implementing lists) and strong rows! (They also tend to go to the second page by…
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Tag Clouds in WordPress
Tag Clouds have been bugging me for ages, and I have just replaced, WP Category Tag Cloud, which is pretty awesome. The featured picture is a picture generated by tagcloud. I now use a plug-in called TagCloudShortCode. You can view the current tag cloud at https://davelevy.info/wiki/the-tag-cloud/
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Nextscripts: Social Network Autoposter
I had a quick look at Nextscripts: Social Network Auto Poster. It claims to be able to forward posts to other social networks. These include as targets, twitter, linkedin and facebook. The also offer Google+ but that needs an additional library which may be chargeable. I need to work on this a bit more. Since…
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WAMP
I needed to install WAMP on my PC, to support some Amazon developments; I needed a screen interface to my database. Here are some notes and links. I talk about installation, and port conflicts. I might expand the install notes to include advice on mysql security.
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Parliament TV
I was point at a Parliament TV clip from the House of Commons and wanted to experiment with using the stop parameter. The http code is as follows,
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WordPress, email before download
This is a delight. This post at wordpress’ support forum is the place to start. This wasn’t the problem, but I am sure we’ll be back!
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DevOps
As you can see I have been provoked into thinking about the problems to which Dev/Ops claims to be the answer. These may be weak on the ideas around “plant as software” but here are some links.
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Gdrive & Linux
My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…
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Storage for the 21st century
I had a chat with Kieron Bradley, a long time collaborator and colleague and we looked at new age storage/persistence architectures. New ideas are coming out of Linkedin, and the recommended further reading includes,
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WordPress Database Schema
While working on Nulis and while attempting to solve some other problems I began to need to document the contents of wordpress databases. The first problem I sought to solve was to build a visual map of the site. This needs the schema to be understood and the table contents to be extracted. This needs…
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