Things I've learned
A collection of notes, ideas and things I've picked up over the years building software.
Add a Facebook app to your Fan Page
Facebook has recently change the way you manage apps by removing the App profile page completely. As I needed to add a newly created Facebook app to a Facebook page, the conventional way of doing this was no longer available.
Blog · 1 min readMySQL Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in command line – tips
Have you been working with large MySQL databases? Have you just performed a database export to a file from a web interface such as phpMyAdmin and attempted to import it elsewhere via a command line similar to the below?
Blog · 1 min readWhite background quickly appearing behind Facebook Like button issue
Building a Facebook like button using FBXML against a black background and have it display within a JS slider can create some ugly display issues.
Blog · 1 min readFacebook signed_request and SSL/HTTPS being received
Getting into more PHP Facebook application development over the last year, I have been developing apps that request information from a Facebook user as they view the page. The information is obtained via the $_REQUEST[‘signed_request’]…
Blog · 2 min readUbuntu Linux Apache2 javascript folder ‘404 file not found’ error? I’ve got the fix!
I’ve had the unexpected privilege of transferring some a web application over from a CentOS Plesk/HTTPD server environment over to an Ubuntu Apache2 VPS server. The web application contained your standard CSS, images and javascript folders.
Blog · 1 min readMac OSX Enable Delete to Trash Fix
I’ve been in a situation recently where I’ve had to wipe my HDD clean and restore my user account back to my iMac via my most recent Time Machine backup.
Blog · 2 min readTomodachi at Rhodes NSW – Opening Hours on Saturday Night
Here’s one predicament I encountered recently. I wanted to have a nice dinner with the missus and catch a movie afterwards. So figuring out where to dine out on a Saturday night, I settled on Tomodachi at Rhodes, NSW. The Reading…
Blog · 1 min readFixed! Issues Getting Joomla Google Maps Plugin to Work?
Whilst having difficulties implementing a Google Maps Plugin to work with the 128Bit website, I started digging around, analysing the source code and wondering why when I was putting in the text {mosmap} on the pages, that it just was…
Blog · 2 min readTrack Network Usage with vnStat and vnStat PHP Frontend for Ubuntu Linux
I was recently asked to help assist in determining why a client’s network was downloading more than 8GB per day which appeared to be happening for almost a week. The client, being on an Internode ISP connection would’ve been charged…
Blog · 4 min readWarcraft 3 – The Frozen Throne Install on MacOSX Workaround
I’m an avid fan of the game DoTA (Defense of the Ancients), which is a Warcraft 3 custom game that seems to have a very large fan base. So what you do is you purchase the Warcraft 3 – Reign of Chaos game, as well as the Frozen Throne…
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