QZRCSRVS is the Remote Command/Distributed Program Call host server. Quite a mouthful to say. Try and say QSRCSRVS with a mouthful of frozen peas – you will spill a lot. #trustme. QZRWRVRSRCSRRCSRS is a web-service that basically receives authenticated requests (from other systems out there in cloud land) to run commands or to call programs on

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Hide WordPress TITLE area in Thrive themes using CSS *phew* That’s a sentence and a half. Sadly, if you are nerdy, geeky, keyboard inclined and in touch with your web-design genes then that will make sense. You’re probably only reading this because you specifically googled something like “hide wordpress title using css” so that makes

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Lets start with this ‘REST vs SOAP is not the right question to ask you silly billy! SOAP is a protocol – REST is an architectural style (a design for network-based software architectures) REST concepts are referred to as resources. A representation of a resource must be stateless. It is represented via some media type.

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Wordle is an excellent website for a some serious lunchtime cyberloafing. It basically takes any string of text, parses it and creates a nice little word-cloud graphic with the most used words. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently

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Tinkering with one of my wordpress sites I noticed that Jetpack was unable to connect. The WordPress Jetpack Error says “Server unable to connect with my site http 404” which is nicely vague. Luckily, the excellent support guys over at ICDSOFT quickly gave me the solution: 1: Log into the control panel obviously your control

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Have you ever wanted to extract some data out of an IBMi/AS400 file using SQL and then email that data to someone as an Excel Spreadsheet? Now you can… all from one IBMi command without having to write any CL code to do it. Projex4i: DSTDTA command now handles SQL STRINGS for selecting data I

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If you are an RPG Programmer thern you can quite easily add C# to the list of progamming languages you have in your brainbox. It’s a very similar syntax. Checkout the latest C# For RPGers TechTip and check out the similarities between C# and RPG loops: http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/programming-other/c-for-rpgers-taking-c-loops-for-a-spin   The missing piece to the basic C# language

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BCD Presto – Software Green Screen Modernization aka – AS400 iSeries 5250 Screen to Web Conversions BCD Presto is probably my favourite screen modernization tool. It has a very simple and clean screen editor. It’s reliable, fast and intuitive. Most importantly, when I have those “what is the best way to do this?” questions the

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Time to install Presto AS400 iSeries 5250 to Web modernizer Responsive Mobile It’s now easier for IBM i programmers to transform their green screens into web GUIs that are optimized for both desktop and mobile with Presto’s new responsive design capabilities. Presto version 7 incorporates Bootstrap, an open source framework that enables the design of

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THIS IS A TEST OF THE FACEBOOK/DRUPAL CONNECTION

So, I'm trying to figure out if this darned Drupal Facebook Module will allow me to connect my main login information with Facebook. If this works then this will appear on Facebook.

If this doesn't work then I am going to sulk and write bum on the windows.

The documentation says:

With Drupal for Facebook, you can harness all the power of Drupal in you Facebook App. If you already have content in Drupal, you can expose it on Facebook.

The Drupal for Facebook philosophy is that the functionality already built into Drupal should be used to create Facebook Applications. Where possible, we use Drupal's user management, permission schemes, blocks, views, etc. to implement the Facebook App. Experienced Drupal users will find it very straightforward to build a Facebook App. While Facebook developers new to Drupal may want to spend some time on Drupal.org learning best practices.

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ICDSOFT Websites now include free SSL Certificates I’ve used ICDSOFT as my preferred web host for years now. I’ve always been very happy with there prices, fast servers and fantastic customer service. Seriously – their sure support team are the best I’ve every worked with! Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority that provides free SSL

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Episode 3 – Another year has passed How on earth has a year passed since I had my failed Drupal8 experience? #TimeFliesWhenYoureHavingFun So, it’s Friday, the weekend is looking and it’s time to try this upgrade again. Drupal 8 is now a year older, a year more mature and seems to be ready for the

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