Recently I've been trying out Tiddlywiki as an alternative to Evernote. I decided to try convert my existing OSQA install to Tiddlywiki as I'm travelling a lot and don't always have access to my servers via the internet. Here's a python script I wrote that might help anyones trying to …
Category: Projects Tagged: projects python
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I run a few scripts to ensure my identity stays hidden day to day on my laptop. Here's a few conky scripts to verify things are as they should be.
VPN
Because I don't always know my ip or what my VPN's ip is, I wanted conky to display the …
Category: Security
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This tutorial should show you how to add a custom button/action that will appear across all modules. It's a little similar to this tutorial with a few changes to how the button gets rendered and the actions get called.
1. Adding the button to the headerpanel
Firstly you'll need …
Category: SugarCRM Tagged: php sugarcrm
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SugarCRM has some neat features involving currency rates, but one of the more annoying ones is that Sugar will automatically update the base rate every time you save a record with a currency field attached. This can be fairly annoying default behaviour if you wish to maintain the correct record …
Category: SugarCRM
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I find trying to replicate the SugarCRM environment locally a real pain. One of the main issues is simply that Sugar requires such old versions of PHP to be installed, especially compared to other web projects I have that implement the latest/greatest versions of PHP. Running multiple PHP versions …
Category: SugarCRM Tagged: docker devops sugarcrm
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Recently I've written on another site how I use Rescuetime to provide metrics on my overall productivity that I can review each week. One useful feature I noticed was Rescuetime highlights, which gives you a good overview of your accompishments throughout the day. The first thing I wanted to add …
Category: Productivity Tagged: git Productivity
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I'm putting this obvious solution up as I couldn't see it anywhere online.
If you try to start up boot2docker with boot2docker start and it returns.
error in run: Failed to start machine "boot2docker-vm": exit status 1
Before destroying everything and wiping your ~/Virtualbox VMs folder, try starting up Virtualbox …
Category: Devops Tagged: docker virtualbox
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This is just a useful snippet of code I've been using a lot to tidy up messy exports I've been getting lately.
Takes in a bunch of excel files, rewrites some variable column names in column 3 then outputs them as a list of dataframes. These then get merged into …
Category: R Tagged: data snippets
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I've found SugarCRM an utter pain to work with in terms of version
control for a number of reasons, but the most annoying is simply that
certain critical elements of the SugarCRM configuration are stored on
the database.
Over time I've worked out a system that circumvents this and I've …
Category: SugarCRM Tagged: git mysql php sugarcrm
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Recently I came across an app called CodeBug, a really nice PHP debugger for Mac. I find debugging PHP really painful within editors such as Vim or Emacs, so up until now I'd been stuck using the incredibly bloated PHPStorm.
On Emacs you can currently use Geben for debugging but …
Category: Projects Tagged: debug emacs lisp php
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