OneDrive Plus OneDrive Equals Lots of Space
Since Microsoft reduced the size of their free plan on OneDrive, I have felt a bit of pain. I had a Windows Phone (yes, there was at least one person!)…
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Unzipping Multiple Zip Files to Folders in Linux
This is a quick tip for you if you find yourself in a situation in which you want to unzip a large number of zip files but do so into their…
Impaled by a PHP Open Tag
I was recently moving a WordPress blog and ran into a problem where a series of errors were appearing on screen in the target location. Back on the original site,…
Batch Converting Images From TIF to JPG with ImageMagick
This is a super quick tip about how to convert images quickly with ImageMagick. You might come across some web references telling you how to do this, but there are…
Adding a Mailchimp Plugin to WordPress
You often here people talking about their websites and the need to add a mailing list. There are lots of benefits – reaching interested parties better because people actually read…
Installing a Google Analytics Dashboard in WordPress
I’ve had Google Analytics running on my site now for some time but to be honest, I haven’t been too good at keeping an eye on it. Part of the…
Installing the Symfony Skeleton App on 1 and 1
For this post, I am going to write about how you install the Symfony skeleton app onto a subdomain of a 1&1 host. For this, you might want to read…
Subdomains and PHP on 1 and 1
I recently wanted to create a subdomain on my 1&1 hosting package that also used the latest version of PHP to boot. Whilst the web portal at 1&1 is quite…
It’s a Matter of Case
When naming identifiers etc. there are a whole host of options open to the programmer, including randomly, but readability and consistency suggest that you should settle on one rule and…
Determining Website Technologies with Chrome
I’ve often browsed the web and wondered just what was under the hood at so-and-so site. If that sounds like you, you might like to install a neat little Chrome…
Unable to Load Images From WordPress XML Exports When Importing
I had an interesting situation where I had used the export tool of WordPress (via Tools > Export) to extract the data from an existing site ready to be imported…
FTP Credentials Unexpectedly Required When Installing Plugins or Upgrading in WordPress
I went to install a plugin on a newly created WordPress site and rather than just do it, suddenly a screen appeared asking for FTP credentials. I had never seen…
PHP and UTF-8 Woes
Do you find yourself working with foreign characters and they go all screwy when you use forms or your MySQL database? You could have UTF-8 issues. If you are unsure what…
Tricky Gotcha Editing Virtual Hosts on Apache
Here’s a really simple but sneaky gotcha for if you are trying to edit your virtual hosts file with XAMPP but for some reason, it just isn’t working. Of course, first check…
Accessing an Unreachable Raspberry PI 3 After a Motion Eye Snafu
I’ve got a Raspberry PI on which I have installed Motion Eye OS. This is a great tool and I readily recommend it, but like a ding-bat, I managed to…