There is a lot of documentation on the web on ways to debug websites for Android using their AVD (Android Virtual Device/Emulator). But I thought to make a simple step-by-step instruction to get a web debugger up and running for an AVD. Weinre is the debugger that I use. You can download weinre build from… Continue reading Debug and Inspect Webpages on AVD (Android Emulator) Browsers
SD Card Backup Image – Raspberry Pi Disk Clone
To make a backup / clone of an SD card from within OS X, open Terminal and run $ sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 bs=1m | gzip > ~/Desktop/raspberry_clone.gz (If you’re not sure what /dev/disk the SD card is, run $ diskutil list and you’ll see where the SD Card is mounted). It can take a while… Continue reading SD Card Backup Image – Raspberry Pi Disk Clone
Batch Rename files in 1 Shell Command
i=0; for x in *.jpg; do cp $x “image_$i.jpg”; i=$(($i+1)); done The above command will copy all jpeg files in a directory and give them a new name with an iterating numerical value. So if you had five images in a directory: bird.jpg, cat.jpg, dog.jpg, fish.jpg and hamster.jpg Executing the above command in the directory… Continue reading Batch Rename files in 1 Shell Command
ISO 2 Character And 3 Character Country Codes
Here is an SQL file of the 2 Character and their corresponding 3 Character ISO Country Codes: ISO_CC.sql I’ve needed to use this several times, so I thought posting might help someone.
Avoid FTP Info Request From WordPress Updates
When performing WordPress updates, some installations prompt for FTP information. This request for FTP information is because WordPress cannot write the updates to files on the server through PHP and therefore requests FTP login information to attempt to write files via FTP instead of PHP. But, if you do not have FTP access, or do… Continue reading Avoid FTP Info Request From WordPress Updates
Alternative to Akismet
Aksimet is a paid anti-spam comment service that comes standard with your WordPress installation. As it is the standard for dealing with comment spam in WordPress, but it is a paid service. A combination of the following two plugins has proved to be a great free alternative to Akismet: Antispam Bee (Don’t let the German… Continue reading Alternative to Akismet
Easy Regular Expression Testing
RegEx Pal is the best online Regular Expression testing system I have ever used. It is remarkably easy to use, it performs the regular expression in real-time and highlights syntax. It was launched in 2007, and I’m sorry to have only found it now, because using it has improved my skills with regular expression 10-fold… Continue reading Easy Regular Expression Testing
AWS micro EC2 instance WordPress LAMP stack optimized low memory settings
Amazon Web Services EC2 micro instances are a good way to test and develop a LAMP stack running WordPress, but, the settings for Apache, MySQL and PHP on a Linux AMI (Amazon Managed Image), by default, tend to have memory settings too high for using on a micro EC2 instance. Which can cause the WordPress… Continue reading AWS micro EC2 instance WordPress LAMP stack optimized low memory settings
AWS EC2 Amazon Linux AMI change timezone
AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 Amazon Linux AMI timezone will most likely be different than your local machines’ timezone. To remedy this issue on Amazon’s Linux machine image, ssh in and type the following commands in prompt: sudo su become root user ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto /etc/localtime Choose your time zone ( in this example Toronto… Continue reading AWS EC2 Amazon Linux AMI change timezone
Triage – Handmade Leather Goods
Just finished helping a friend get a shop up and running: http://triagegoods.com On WordPress, this store represents a lot of work and fun. It’s worthing taking a peak at. Will be working hard to market with all the middle ware goodness that exists now a days.