Twitter Bootstrap
This looks interesting: “Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids,...
View ArticleExcel Print Management
Over at Chandoo.org’s “Become AWESOME in Excel” blog, a great post on making the printing of reports from large Excel spreadsheets much easier: Printing multiple pages with different layouts using Excel.
View ArticleHowto: Lock Windows Machines From Command Line
I’ve recorded a short video on how to lock windows machines from the windows command line. Let me know if you found it useful.
View ArticleEditing Microsoft Office Documents on the iPad
I got asked on the weekend about what do I use on the iPad to edit Microsoft documents. I’ve been using an iPad (the ‘new iPad’ or the ‘iPad 3′ depending on who you talk to) and have been needing to...
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Excel formula to convert minutes into Hours and Minutes
On occasion I end up with an Excel spreadsheet that has a list of items, each of which has a duration. It’s easy to sum up the minutes and get a total number of minutes (see B7 in the picture below)....
View ArticleCommand Line Install Telnet Client
I often use telnet to test if a port is open or not. However, on Windows Vista and up, and Windows Server 2008 and up the telnet client isn’t installed by default. To install it, do the following from...
View ArticleMac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
As a recent convert to the Mac OS X platform (I bought a Mac Book Pro), I’m loving OmniOutliner for creating outlines and documents, with one small annoyance. The default keyboard shortcut isn’t easy...
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What I miss from iOS and how simple it was to fix it
One of the ‘little’ things on iOS that I truly have come to love is this: when you type ‘two spaces’, it auto replaces that with a ‘period and a space’. For example ‘ ‘ becomes ‘. ‘ This is especially...
View ArticleSugarCRM field visibility dependant on multiple values
I’ve often got cause to make fields in SugarCRM (Professional and Corporate editions) to only appear based on the value of another field. We can do this easily using SugarLogic in Studio using this...
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SugarCRM how to calculate a persons age
In SugarCRM we oft record a persons birth date (in the field birthdate). Sometimes it’s useful to know how old this person is. So we create a new field age_c (note: this can be of field type Integer or...
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Deleting posts from Ghost.io
After creating a new ‘blog’ over at benhamilton.ghost.io I imported all my blog posts from ben.hamilton.id.au – then realised that the post url structure was different. Unfortunately, there is no way...
View ArticleSugar logic to calculate days an opportunity has been open
We want to find out how many days an Opportunity in SugarCRM has been open, using a calculated custom integer field in SugarCRM Studio. I’m assuming you’ve already created a new custom integer field,...
View ArticleDownload a file on dropbox using wget on linux
Firstly, get the dropbox share link. It will look like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/ad2arn440pu77si/test.txt Then add a “?dl=1″ to the end of that url and a “-O filename” so that you end up with...
View ArticleFix for iPad blackscreen that doesn’t respond
My iPad wasn’t responding to anything. Just blackscreen. The Home Key and Sleep Key (as if you were taking a screen shot) for more than 10 seconds will do a force restart!! This post on the apple forum...
View ArticleFormatting of printed addresses
How should you format an address on printed labels and envelopes? Formatting addresses for printing in Australia: Typically, the address should be written in three lines: The top line should contain...
View ArticleHow to fix ssh “Remote host identification has changed” Error
Trying to connect to a host via ssh and I’m getting an error: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @...
View ArticleGet SAMBA running on linux
This article here describes how to get SAMBA running on a Raspberry Pi. The protocol, which is known as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) – but was originally called Server Message Block (SMB),...
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Convert multiple Microsoft Excel files to .csv files with 3 clicks
I often get given Microsoft Excel files to import them into a database. Normally we’ll work with the files in the Excel to clean up data (phone numbers, Addresses, Titles, etc) but then save them as...
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Cardinality notation symbols
Cardinality specifies how many instances of an entity relate to one instance of another entity. Information Engineering Source: SmartDraw.
View Article10 Terminal Commands That Will Boost Your Productivity
10 Terminal Commands That Will Boost Your Productivity. Discusses touch, cat, less, curl, tar, gzip, chmod, diff, patch, sudo, man, shutdown, !! and !$. Linux, OSX, Windows.
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