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I wrote a blog earlier to day with lots of source code and comments in it. I wanted the program code that I included to really standout and be very readable and easy to copy/paste. The current CSS layout uses <PRE> which gives me a nice way of marking blocks of code and displaying them. …
Episode 1 – Drupal 7 the Ghost of Christmas Past Christmas is coming, The geese are getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, A ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny, Then it’s time for a big scarey Drupal update! Drupal8 has been …
I’m in the final stages of a fun project writing web-services to interface INFOR System21 (on an IBM i aka AS400) with ACSIS Visitrack (on Windows Server), we are consuming (receiving) and serving (sending) all data in a standard alphameric layout But… as any RPG programmer will know… the conversion between alpha to numeric is …
Over at DRUMS THE WORD a new kid is on the block; the new kid is the old kid, but with a new coat on The King is dead – long live the King! Rob Litten and I have been working together over the last six months, between him in Hampshire (England) and me in …
“So, I have my name as a domain (www.NickLitten.com) and I want to use as a link to a specific node on the nicklitten.com main site – namely my RESUME page at (www.nicklitten.com/nick.litten)… I wonder how I can redirect a domain name to a specific page on my website?” Sounds like a simple question but …
(follow on article from part 2) Let’s review what we have done: We have cleaned up the old Drupal 6 website to make it as minimal, clean, and fully functional as possible. It’s just housekeeping and a good thing. We have installed an empty Drupal 7 content management system in a new web server (or …
(follow on article from part one) We are not focussed on running an upgrade here, instead, we are going to create a clean Drupal7 website and import (or migrate) the content into it. #2 – Setup a Drupal 7 installation for a Drupal6 upgrade So, we have the original Drupal6 website now running in a …
Las month my cousin, drumming demi-god Rob Litten asked me to help him upgrade his website. He has been running a very successful online drumming sensation called Drums The Word for a few years now. It’s a Drupal 6 eCommerce website running Ubercart focused on selling digital products — downloadable videos and drum lessons. We …
SEO Here’s a friendly, detailed(ish) list of some factors affecting Google, Bing, Yahoo! and the other search engines. It’s a loose guide to kickstart SEO exposure and what are the nice things to do and also, which things are a bit naughty. Obviously this is the tip of the iceberg, but it’s a useful brain stimulator …
A week into my #WINDOWS10 Experience and I’m definitely more than pleased with the whole thing. Thumbs up Windows chaps and chapettes 🙂 I just discovered a cure for my only other little VPN niggle. Last week I had a problem getting Cisco AnycConnect to work, but a little registry tweak seemed to fix that …
*sigh* So, my NETGEAR WNDR3700 WIRELESS ROUTER has failed. Working one day – Dying the next. This is the second WNDR3700 Router that has failed for me, with the same problem. The first one failed within a few months of ownership and was replaced by Netgear. This second (replacement) unit is now 3 years old …
It’s not as simple as saying the the “Website has crashed” it’s more like the website has groan, warned me and then exploded in the most egregious way. That will teach me to go tinkering in SQL… *sigh* Bollocks, Bugger and Damnation! On the bright(ish) side this site has been around since the days of …
