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15 November, 2011 Blog

Cabling your house with cat5e… Geeky or essential?

When I bought my house, I wired it with  cable for data networking. I ran 2 cables to each of

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15 November, 2011 Blog

Solved! Debian Wheezy – SASL LOGIN authentication failed: no mechanism available

I’m not sure why I ever run an `apt-get upgrade` on Debian as I usually spend the next week fixing

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15 November, 2011 Blog

Reading a signed 64 bit integer from a file with PHP

This may be a ridiculous way to do this but I couldn’t think of anything better at the time of

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14 November, 2011 Blog

Parsing a darkstat database with PHP

This is something I wrote for the sake of interest more than necessity but I have found it quite useful

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13 November, 2011 Blog

Randomising the order of posts in WordPress

Just before ‘the loop‘ of a WordPress site, you would normally use query_posts(). Not only does this set a global

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9 November, 2011 Blog

Simple fix for low pressure or no water in electric showers – change the solenoid coil

Firstly… don’t mistaken me for a shower expert, I’m really not – I just have a pretty crappy shower which

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7 November, 2011 Blog

WordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip v1.1

I have recently attended the Firefox school of code versioning and have learned that it’s cool to release code with

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6 November, 2011 Blog

WordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip

I’ve never written a WordPress plugin before and was surprised how simple it was. I have knocked up a plugin

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