Occasionally on the Hype Machine, a song is linked to in an external blog that no longer exists or the path has changed. If the song works when clicking play on HM then there’s a simple way to find out the URL and download it using Google Chrome as your browser. Load up Chrome, and press [...]
Let it be known, that I’m not a big fan of Facebook. I’ve not put out a status update or uploaded a photo in over 6 months, but the value in the service lies with being able to message friends and family in a country that I no longer live. It’s a great way of [...]
Today at work I encountered a peculiar problem when working with some translations. I developed a system whereby we can send out translations to our translators and they’ll fill in the blanks and send it back to use which is then imported. Part of this project involved coding a parser for a custom file format [...]
One of the common questions I see from new users to Selenium is how to insert random values into a form. Well it turns out this is quite easy. Simply change your value to some javascript surrounded by some special syntax: javascript{[code goes here]} So let's do this using a more practical example. You have [...]
I’ll use this post as a personal reference for useful GIT commands as I find them. Hopefully they’ll help you also. Scenario #1 You have accidentally made a few commits to a branch and you wish to undo them so they are identical to the origin. You’ll probably see something like this when you run [...]
Short Version: This script will allow you to manage your wordpress plugins in git, and deploy them to wordpress.org SVN. Long Version: Recently at work I was required to build a wordpress plugin. After trawling through the documentation to figure out what I needed to do, it became apparent that to get my plugin listed [...]
Facebook has garnered a rather bad reputation over its privacy controls in recent months, but things are now beginning to stabilise. You can control the privacy of: Individual wall posts Almost all aspects of your profile (location, interests etc.) Individual photo albums Individual videos With the addition of friend lists it makes it fairly simple [...]
Yuri just posted up the final video on twitter from the camp. Hopefully the pixelating issue will be fixed soon: