Master Drupal for Free with NodeOne Video Tutorials
I thought I would take a minute today, take a little detour, and share a resource I’ve discovered recently that is an absolute MUST for anyone who wants to learn and master Drupal. NodeOne is a...
View ArticleMODX: The Official Guide – Book Review
If you closely follow the happenings in the world of MODX you know that Bob Ray’s book MODX: The Official Guide is now available. I was fortunate to receive a copy of the unreleased PDF a few weeks...
View ArticleMODX Revolution Beginner Tutorials Updated to Revolution 2.2
Just a quick post to let you all know that the MODX Revolution Beginner Tutorials series has been updated to reflect the changes made in MODX Revolution 2.2. Initially these tutorials were written...
View ArticleHow to Create Multiple Virtual Hosts in Ubuntu
I’ve recently been doing a lot of my dev work and coding on Ubuntu 11.10 installed on a Lenovo Thinkpad T500, and learning the ins and outs of working from the terminal and all that. I have several...
View ArticleSetting the Time Zone for PHP 5.3.0+
While working with PHP 5.3 scripts, you may have run into an error that tells you you need to set the time zone for PHP 5.3.0. This might happen when upgrading or installing a CMS or other script in...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Conversation with a Hacker
Before I proceed, I want to state that I don’t know Verite’s gender, I didn’t ask. So my references to “he” and “him” are purely an assumption on my part. What I do know as facts is that Verite...
View ArticleQuick Tip: MODX – Modify the date format for the TwitterX output
While working on a MODX client project I used the TwitterX snippet, which uses the new Twitter 1.1 API, to pull in the clients twitter feed to her site. The snippet comes with a default tpl chunk which...
View ArticleInterview with Ryan Cramer – ProcessWire CMS Founder and Lead Developer
In this interview I talk to Ryan Cramer, founder and lead developer of the ProcessWire project. Ryan has been kind enough to share with us some insights into who he is and into the ProcessWire project...
View ArticleInstalling Linux as the Only OS on MacBook Pro
In this post I am going to briefly outline the process I went through installing a Linux distro to run as the only OS on my MacBook Pro. I will cover my process of experimenting with various distros...
View ArticleInstalling htop on Manjaro
In my previous blog post I talked about installing Manjaro Linux as the sole OS on my old MacBook Pro. That install is still running beautifully and I have not run into any significant problems so...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Removing Orphaned Packages in Manjaro
I was running into trouble trying to update my Manjaro on my MacBook Pro today, I kept running into package conflicts which could not be resolved. Pacman suggested deleting certain packages but the...
View ArticleUpdate Ruby to Latest Version on Mac OS X
I recently needed to do a small scripting job in Ruby, and to use the gems required I needed to be on the latest version of Ruby (2.4.1). My MacBook was on an older version, so I needed to run a quick...
View ArticleSolving the clang version error on Mac OS X
Following up on my last post on how to update Ruby to the latest version on OS X, I recently ran into an error when trying to update again to Ruby 2.5.0. configure: error: clang version 3.0 or later is...
View ArticleHow to Update R and RStudio on Mac OS X
Because R and R Studio don’t necessarily warn you when they need upgrading, I had to figure it out myself when I started getting some weird bugs running assignments during an R class. Alas, I needed to...
View ArticleInstalling RWeka Package in R on OS X
I’m currently taking a data mining class, and I’m trying to do as much of the coding in the class using R for practice. We are using Weka 3 which so far is proving to be a pretty neat (FREE) data...
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