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I got the SNIP recently, but that’s whole different story to this very boring technical one… How to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Windows Snipping Tool I’ve been using the windows snipping tool a lot recently — to capture various 5250 screens and document them. I just remembered how to setup the tool against …
WooCommerce is a great ecommerce solution for WordPress websites, but the Woo workflow can feel too long for simple, or subscription based products. So, lets configure #woocommerce to bypass the CART Page and jump straight to the checkout when a customer adds a product. This used to need a little bit of PHP functionality to do …
Fun with RPGLE Strings I was emailed a little IBM i programming question this morning: An input parameter @Account is a 100 character string for one to x number of 8 digit accounts separated with a comma (,). Each account can be entered with commas between each account. Example: The string @Account could be “123,00574, …
This is purely a little memory jogger for me. Nothing to read here move along move along….. I just upgraded an old program that had a piece of code doing this: C DS#POS Div 256 POSLIN C Mvr POSCOL This old RPG400 code is reading the cursor position from the display …
How can I increase the File Size Limit in WordPress Media? I’ve asked myself this question way too often. I run websites on several different webhosts and frequently run into the issue uploading files to a WordPress site “exceeds the maximum upload size for this site” error. Drives me Bonkers. Simple Solution – Increase limit …
An interesting question was lobbed at me this morning – “How can I change the data change timestamp in an ifs file?” One of the good folks over at Tire Rack (the software developers, not the blokes that change the tires) asked if I knew a way to update the timestamp for the data changed …
Talking to a colleague this morning, we were discussing a vendor supplied series of spreadsheets (in CSV format) that his team needed to process. I was surprised to see there were hundreds of files in this folder and he wanted to list them, and assign different files to different people. “What’s the best way to …
How to Edit UIM MENUs with Rational Developer for IBM i Today I be mainly playing with UIM MENU’s that bloke from the fast show … and I found that Rational Developer for IBM i doesn’t come out of the box ready to edit UIM MENU source types! So, if like me, you are playing …
Dad, Why didn’t you go to College? Here in America, everyone goes! I mean EVERYONE! Was it that different in England? My Eldest Son And since I cant think of anything sensible to blog about… I might as well answer your question, Nate. And also talk about our families wanderlust. So this blog is for …
I found this wonderful article over at Midrange Blog It does exactly what I am trying to do: Lets me encrypt a certain field (column) in a table so that its encrypted as its added and updated. It also lets me automatically decrypt it when I read the record back (the only caveat is that …
UNICOM TURNOVER – Software Change Management System Problem – TURNOVER uses an uppercase 10 character password by default If you are thinking of changing your USRPRF(TURNOVER) password to anything – including a lowercase letter – then you just might want to read this! “Why should I read this and what is this bloke waffling about?” …
To quote Sting ” I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien I’m an Englishman in New York” But, over the last ten years I’ve enjoyed being an Englishman in Roanoke VA, Augusta GA, Charleston SC, San Clemente CA and now Las Vegas NV. Diverse locations with diverse cross sections of the People that make up …
