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Docker Desktop – Fix missing containers.
Docker Desktop is a useful tool, but imagine that you have a host of containers installed, packed with useful information which suddenly disappears following a successful upgrade of Docker Desktop. Judging by a quick search on the internet, this is not uncommon scenario. There are a few suggestions online which seem to work for different…
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Tailwindcss Windows CLI Standalone
It is worth your time building a Standalone CLI version of your app / ecosystem, but not worth taking 20 seconds to explain properly how to use it? Tailwind’s github instructions just point to the general installation instructions which don’t cover it at all. The blog post which has some instructions just hints at what…
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Post Office Inquiry Excuse Crib Sheet
I have only been able to watch a fraction of the Inquiry on catch-up, but for anyone who has not yet given evidence, you may find this handy: Should cover most eventualities, but if really stuck, just reasurre yourself that people with money and connections never go to prison in the UK.
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Amazon Q “Skipping seed url xxxxx as it does not match filtering criteria.” error.
I’ve recently been playing with Amazon Q but ran across an issue when trying to index some web sites. Our company, like many, has multiple information sources and with our wide footprint of API connections and services it is difficult to stay across the details. AWS Summit 2024 in London piqued my interest in Amazon…
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Garmin Express – why so bad Garmin?
Garmin Express is the software required to upload workouts from my Garmin 500 GPS tracker. The tracker is excellent and I have some other Garmin hardware and that is also well designed and functions reliably and as expected. So, why Garmin, do you not do something about your awful software? When I first used it,…
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Setting up a PHP Development Environment – Part 2
Introduction Note that this was published back in 2014 and is obsolete. I plan on doing a more modern development environment tutorial at a later date. Images are missing from this entry. In the last part, I showed you how to set up your basic development environment using Eclipse and The Uniform Server, but we…
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Validating a domain string in PHP
It is not uncommon to need to validate a string passed to a PHP script which purports to be a domain name, or URL. In a past project, I had to validate a domain but without the scheme. This turned out to be much harder that I thought, as the PHP validate filter could only…
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Setting up a PHP Development Environment – Part 1
Introduction Note that this was published back in 2013 and is obsolete. I plan on doing a more modern development environment tutorial at a later date. Images are missing from this entry. I’m going to show you how to set up a fully featured development environment for PHP5 on Windows (I’m using 7) It will…