Here’s something that I discovered today, google has quite recently made it possible to directly add files from google drive into your emails as attachments (or more specifically, attached links), more details can be found here. But in summary, hit the + at the bottom of the email editing pane, and then click on […]
If you are doing any serial port communications these days in C++ and would like your code to be portable, then you are probably using boost’s asio::serial_port class. One complication with using serial_port (and boost::asio more generally) is that it doesn’t provide a direct facility to allow synchronous blocking reads to time-out and return if […]
Interesting, the register writes that Amazon is putting more support in place for those that want do deploy on node.js: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/06/amazon_node_js_support/ Seems like nearly everybody is heading the node.js way theses days!
Magento has a ‘compile’ feature which is supposed to get your site to run much faster, what it will most likely do instead is completely break your site, so that you can’t even get in it turn the ‘feature’ off! Don’t panic a quick edit of this file, will get your site up and […]
If you, like many others (including me!), are slightly confused about where and how to install Microsoft FxCop and you don’t want all the extra hassle and work of installing the huge Windows 7 SDK just to get an installer which will then install FxCop – then have a look at this blog post: […]
Sometimes you may find that you need to unblock a file in wondows if you have downloaded it from the internet from moved it from a network drive – in this case you may encounter a message like this: “This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer” […]
If you are having a strange problem whereby Views Slideshow only displays an image for the first of your slides in Drupal 7 (perhaps to non-authenticated visitors) try disabling the devel module (if it’s enabled of course!). This fixed this strange and annoying problem for us…
Congratulations to our buddies at PrideDesign who have just won another award for their work – the website which they designed and built for the Cork Opera House won in the ‘Best Arts Website’ category at last night’s Irish Web Awards 2012! Well done to all involved!
This is a very strange and annoying problem, when editing content on a Drupal 7 installation backslashes were being automatically put before quotes – a real pain especially when editing HTML! This is a well known issue caused by a silly PHP5 module called ‘magic quotes’. Anyway on Blacknight I found that the only […]
If you are having problems creating task-queue tasks after upgrading the Google App Engine SDK to 1.7.2 on a Mac, then I am reliably informed that running the following should help the situation: sudo echo “127.0.0.1 b1.localhost” >> /etc/hosts Thanks Lukasz!