All is not well in Wordpress land
There's a battle playing out in the world of Wordpress, and it's not pretty. There's a company called WP Engine who provide hosting for WordPress sites, and Wordpress, the underlying wordpress engine...
View ArticleData Entry battle scars (a follow up to Richard's Big Coding Challenge post)
I should note that this isn't exactly related to Richard's overarching project, but it made me think of all this, given his specific problem was one that very much seemed a data entry problem. This...
View ArticleTurns out training cats is very easy...
in a few days you'll be doing exactly what they want!A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new...
View Articleany experience on this SonicWall Z370 security appliance?
try to buy this SonicWall device for my home office. is there any advice on this item? I am not hardware guy and learning to set up this stuff...diligent hands rule....
View ArticleDave, I Apologize To You
I believe that I owe you a sincere apology, Dave (@DavesApps). I'm sorry for any trouble or grief that I may have caused you. Upon reading your post about requesting book reviews, I mistook you for a...
View ArticleCCC 16-10-2024
At home document appeal can be difficult to overcome (11)In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter...
View ArticleJob boards - dice specifically
Maybe it's just me. 10 years ago, I would occasionally poke around DICE and it seemed like real people and companies were posting jobs. Now? Not so much. This is what I see on every posting: "Employers...
View ArticleSwitchboard operators...
Used to be a very important and popular job. They required a degree of trust and must be pretty skilled to connect so many calls. Yet direct dial made their job obsolete and historic. I bet if we went...
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VStudio Updates: Via social media
Because you don't use social media, but you need to know this update (because you been griping about VStudio for so long (me too) ). Also, hopefully, it's not just Marketing, but it probably is......
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Everyone needs staples in their head. "VStudio Updates: Via social media Pin"
I don't know who came up with Lidocaine, but I'll have your babies. Spoiler, I don't have a uterus. If there was ever a perfect example of defensive programming, I lived it today. You youngsters and...
View ArticleFan switched off
Looks like this site is now running like an electric fan whose power is turned off. The fan will rotate for some time under its own momentum, before coming to a stop. Why I get this inference is that...
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Second time's a charm =(
I spent several days making my vector canvas able to "direct bind to a 'draw target'" if it happened to be a bitmap with a supported pixel format. I did this by extracting the pointer to the bitmap and...
View ArticleCCC OTD 2024-10-17
Lout never can become one to offer services willingly (9)@petepjksolutionscom - You are up tomorrow!"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony"Common sense is so rare...
View ArticleEmail from Linkedin today
LinkedIn Peter Kane Chris Maunder viewed your profile I'm not linked to him - very strange.In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the...
View ArticleElectron Projects
Has anyone done anything in Electron?".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010-----You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010-----When you...
View ArticleC++ is a funny language
It's usually not a matter of "can I do something?" (the answer is almost always yes, but you won't like the details), rather "how the hell do I accomplish this?" I'm currently running into one such...
View ArticleUm... Photoshop for the web?
Just found this out today, Apparently Adobe was all like "hold my beer" when MS did Office Online and made a web version of Photoshop. I'm sure it's not as full-featured as the offline version, but...
View ArticleIs it just me?
Or is CP acting a bit wonky today? Slow page loads. Stalling completely at times. The beginning of the end...???
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