Things I've learned
A collection of notes, ideas and things I've picked up over the years building software.
Accept payments easily and effortlessly with Pin Payments integration
Only a few lines of code required is to implement a payment system, thanks to inline Pin Payments integration.
Blog · 2 min readMove your VirtualBox virtual machine (VM) image/images to another location or drive
Here is a relatively easy way to move your VirtualBox virtual machine (VM) images to another location or drive:
Blog · 1 min readPostgres.app – Location path of pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf
Do you have the Postgres.app installed on your Mac OSX machine? Need to edit the pg_hba.conf or postgresql.conf but don’t know where the location path of the file is?
Blog · 1 min readHow to: Install Middleman Mac on MacOSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2
This is a how to install Middleman mac guide on Mountain Lion OSX. This took me a bit of figuring out to get working – partially because of unavailable libraries and scripts. I eventually got there in the end and have compiled these set…
Blog · 2 min readExecute MAMP’s PHP and mysql in command line terminal OSX
Quick tip, if you have MAMP installed on your machine and need to run PHP or mysql via the terminal/command line, you can execute these lines to create symbolic links to point within your MAMP instance:
Blog · 1 min readWordPress WPCommerce – Get the parent category of a category object
Maintaining a WordPress site that has WP Commerce set up installed, I needed to do some minor customisations to a widget that displayed nested Category names. Because some categories shared identical names as other categories of the…
Blog · 1 min readTwitter Bootstrap dropdown hover touch devices workaround (iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, etc…)
UPDATE 11/01/2013: Thanks to Robin for pointing this out, the recent Bootstrap 2.2.2 release has addressed this issue. Refer to their changelog for details.
Blog · 1 min readWifi disabled, not working on iOS6? Apple.com in Safari header? here’s why
Apple just released iOS6 this morning here in Sydney Australia. You may experience an issue where when connecting to your wifi, it refuses to connect and a Safari modal with a apple.com header loads.
Blog · 2 min readSpotify Australian (AU) sound quality is noticeably better over MP3 compression due to Vorbis encoding
Spotify… I’ve had the chance to use it today as it was launched in Australia on this date. What makes it a pretty good service in my opinion is not syncing mechanism or the ease of access to a large range of songs (rare ones too), but…
Blog · 1 min readInternet Explorer 7 (IE7) transparency background image not displaying/hidden fix
I ran into an issue recently where I had displayed background images as bullet replacements for my list.
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