This is a classic, a venerable magento database was presented to me today – it had grown over time to 10GB and was in danger of being booted right off its hosting due to its wide girth! I’d say cron hadn’t been run for years. Anyway its very easy to clean up the magento database, […]
If you are a repeat visitor you may (or may not) have noticed that we have launched our brand new-look website. There are still a few tweaks to do so if you notice anything dodge please let us know! Many thank to Ridge Design, Wicklow for the fantastic web design!
I had a very strange (and annoying problem) with an OpenCV project in VS2012, when my program created an image display window (namedWindow) I noticed that its window title was all garbled and soon afterwards other display windows were created even though the code had not requested them. I spent a lot of time comparing […]
It appears that using lambda expressions in C++ makes me surprisingly happy, they can be positively good for the soul it seems!
I had a bit of trouble getting some Android VNC viewers to connect to a Real VNC server on windows 7 today. The most common error message proffered by the viewers while trying to connect was: Server did not offer supported security type It seems this may be caused by Real VNC using some non-standard […]
Drupa 7 Views renders exposed taxonomy term filters as either a select box / drop-down or an auto-complete. This may not be the best option especially if you allow the user to select multiple terms to filter with. So is there any way to render these filters as check-boxes instead? Well the bad news that […]
This is a record of how I built lighttpd with pcre for ARM. Most examples of cross compiling lighttpd for ARM do not include pcre, but to get the best out of lighttpd you really do need pcre built in. So we first need to get and cross compile pcre and then lighttpd. Build pcre […]
I had some difficulty today getting my code to link to boost::filesystem::copy_file() (linking to boost version 1.53.0, gcc v4.7.2), I suffered from link errors like this: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::copy_file(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::copy_option, boost::system::error_code*)’ From reading this post, it seemed that my problem may have stemmed from my use of c++0x. None of […]
If you are using boost::filesystem in your C++ code and getting are some build warnings along the lines of: ‘boost::system::posix_category’ defined but not used Then you may find that inserting the following code before #including boost/filesystem gets rid of them for you: #ifndef BOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED #define BOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED 1 #endif #include This gets rid of […]
Another OS option for your Pi – Fedora Remix has been released for the Raspberry Pi, it is based on the Fedora ARM secondary architecture project, more details can be found here: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Fedora_Remix_FAQ I love the 4th. item in the FAQ, it is entitled – “Why is the Remix slow?” lol It makes me very […]