I’ve built many WordPress sites over the years and I have to say one of my least favourite features has always been the text editor. In a nutshell, it was slow and kind of sucked and made it difficult to do much other than, well, edit text. Excited To Try I’ve played around a little…
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Download Floreant POS Receipt Reports For Epson TM-U220 Printer
I spent a few days recently helping a local restaurant install a new POS system. Firstly, I had to identify which system to use. To do this, I started by looking at the available open source solutions and was pleasantly surprised by what I found. There are quite a few out there, but the system…
Run A Cron Job With A ‘Random’ Time Interval
Here’s an interesting little Linux cron timing trick I found. For one reason and another, I had a requirement to run a test cron job but with irregular timing to simulate the real scenario of users connecting irregularly. The trick is to run the cron job on a normal regular interval, but then introduce a…
How To Post To A Facebook Group As A Facebook Page
If you manage a Facebook page, you can post either as yourself or as the page. This can be very useful in some cases. Unfortunately for a long time this little trick hasn’t been possible in a Facebook group. The only way seemed to be to set up a separate Facebook acccount in the name…
Nullmailer: A Simple Mail Transfer Agent
Sometimes all you want to do is to allow your server to send emails. Postfix, exim and sendmail can all be configured to do this but they are complex to configure and relatively heavy-weight just to be used as a simple outgoing message transfer agent (MTA). This is where nullmailer comes in handy. Nullmailer is…
Welcome
My First Post So, finally I’ve spun up a server, created a virtual host and run through the famous WordPress 5 minute install (blindfolded!). It’s been a long time in coming but finally here it is – my brand new blog! What’s It All About? I take an active interest in most things Internet and…