For months and months and months I’ve been looking for a good code syntax highlighter for WordPress. My requirements are simple: 1, the highlighter mustn’t add lots and lots of div and table tags around my code and, 2, it should add a TinyMCE pre tag button to the visual editor. If I had the … Read more
Oh gosh, another cURL and web form post! I couldn’t resist writing this one. While finding information on formfind I noticed an absence of direct help for people wishing to use it so I thought I’d fill the gap in the market. Questions this post answers: How do I fill out an online form without … Read more
Getting cozy with cURL This isn’t a top 10 magical things to do with cURL post. There are plenty of them around the Net and you will find a few links at the bottom of here to prove that. No, this post is about one thing, using a variable to send data to cURL without … Read more
Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming “No, no, no, no, don’t do it!”, you did it anyway. You just had to click that button. The one that should have been big and red and marked SELF DESTRUCT. And now your computer’s buggered. Isn’t it lovely to have intuition give you it’s best … Read more
Is Ocelot ready to pounce? Or is it all oneiric? In the twilight hours of this morning, I thought I’d take a look at the new Kubuntu 11.10, codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, in my half-awake non-caffeinated state. Knowing how much you all dislike Ubuntu Unity and … Read more
Your computer has a secret to tell you. Hidden away in its file system is a file called hosts. This file is the most efficient way to block websites. The hosts file can be used to block ads, to block pornography, to block gambling sites and to block accidental access to malicious web servers. Any … Read more