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How to use a WordPress theme or CSS template for your N.nu website
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www.jimwestergren.com
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15 years ago
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There are thousands of WordPress themes, CSS templates and other website templates available for free to download and use. Just make sure that you abide by the license which normally is to just keep the credit links in the footer. The existing templates already converted and ready to choose with a click can be seen [...]
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How to use a WordPress theme or CSS template for your N.nu website
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www.jimwestergren.com
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15 years ago
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eng
There are thousands of WordPress themes, CSS templates and other website templates available for free to download and use. Just make sure that you abide by the license which normally is to just keep the credit links in the footer. The existing templates already converted and ready to choose with a click can be seen [...]
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I read somewhere (sorry I've forgotten where by now) that as an engineering, our #1 omnipresent mandate is "manage complexity". I interpret "manage" to mean "reduce" or "prevent" or "minimize" or "mitigate" in this context. When I read this, it resonated very strongly with me. I was recently asked for feedback on one of the managers I work with and I thought in many was, in the manager role, the mantra is "manage chaos". I think that fits..
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Hello there! My name is Nicola, and this is my website. I use it to store my memories and thoughts, share exciting resources, and post technical content. I follow the POSSE methodology, meaning I share my content on this website first and only later, eventually, on social media or other platforms. I’m a coder at heart author of several open source projects , a Microsoft MVP , conference speaker , teacher and consultant. I live in Rav..
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I Google everything. What I find annoying is this: When you Google something that existed before the Internet and has no ongoing importance today (such as local landmarks that have since disappeared), there is literally NOTHING on the Internet about it. For example, Leisure Lodge was a very large and glorious hall on the outskirts of Preston (now a part of Cambridge, Ontario) that was THE place to go from the 1950s to 1970s - they had t..
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I Google everything. What I find annoying is this: When you Google something that existed before the Internet and has no ongoing importance today (such as local landmarks that have since disappeared), there is literally NOTHING on the Internet about it. For example, Leisure Lodge was a very large and glorious hall on the outskirts of Preston (now a part of Cambridge, Ontario) that was THE place to go from the 1950s to 1970s - they had t..
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I had the situation recently where I needed a “button”; when the user clicks the button, then: An "svn up" should occur, to update some XML config files + data files (CSV) If the config files or CSV files have errors, the operation should be aborted and an error printed If correct, the CSV data should be imported into the database ready for processing If correct, the config files should be made available for use The conf..
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C and I (and a friend) went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 at 12:05am last Thursday. I was so excited that I went into Big W that evening to find a robe and wizard hat. Unfortunately they had neither. Instead I went home with a Harry Potter wand, glasses, and some blue construction paper and star stickers to create my own wizard hat. C was embarrassed to be seen with me, but I let my freak flag fly and actually did wear..
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One of the key tools of a software project development is the repository where it’s hosted. During my experience as software developer I have been working with several flavors, such as Visual SourceSafe , CVS , Mercurial , and of course, SVN . But latetly I have found this little jewel called Git . Git was initially developed by Linus Torvalds as a result of an unsuccessful research to replace the propietary SCM BitKeeper, used bac....
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From Wikionary: discrimination (plural discriminations) 1. a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.
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I’m currently finishing the 3rd edition of my Guide To Linux Certification for Cengage. In Chapter 7, I used the following text from Shakespeare in the section on the stream editor (sed): Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take th....
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I’m currently finishing the 3rd edition of my Guide To Linux Certification for Cengage. In Chapter 7, I used the following text from Shakespeare in the section on the stream editor (sed): Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take th....
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NASA’s big announcement about an “exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood” was interesting - I bet it was even exciting if you’re an astrophysicist or take a deep-rooted interest in black holes. But for me it was a bit of a letdown. I was hoping for something BIG . Not only that, but they aren’t even sure if it’s a black hole at all - putting the cart before the horse, don’t you think? After feeling a bit disappointed after watching ..
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I was recently tasked with setting up some load tests for our Tapestry (4.1.6) web application. I chose to use Apache JMeter because it is open-source and is flexible enough to do what we needed, and doesn’t cost $12,000/month like some load testing tools. I set up an HTTP Proxy Manager to record a simple navigation through the site and reconfigured my browser to use the proxy. The proxy recorded the requests without a hitch.
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A while ago I took this photo of C and he’s finally allowed me to post it up. I was practicing removing blemishes in Adobe Camera RAW and am quite proud of my handiwork:
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With IETF 79 happening last week - I think one of the great things that's coming out of the IDR work leading up to the meeting has been that quite a few drafts have been written around the requirements that exist in BGP for better error handling. I've been vocal about this before, of course, so it's not that surprising that I'm (yet again) banging the drum for this cause, however, we are getting somewhere finally. To that end, I was wanti..
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With IETF 79 happening last week - I think one of the great things that's coming out of the IDR work leading up to the meeting has been that quite a few drafts have been written around the requirements that exist in BGP for better error handling. I've been vocal about this before, of course, so it's not that surprising that I'm (yet again) banging the drum for this cause, however, we are getting somewhere finally. To that end, I was wanti..
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I’ve published a Norwegian language article titled: “Min supre produkteier” (“My excellent product owner”) at the company blog for Steria Norway. Go check it out if you understand Norwegian!
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Today I went to Dachshund UN, a live art presentation in Northbridge. A replica of the UN office in Geneva was set up and at 3pm 47 Dachshunds representing each country’s delegates for the Commission of Human Rights were put in their respective places.
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There has been a lot of talk lately that Java is on its way out, mostly fueled by Apple deprecatingJava , and by Apache threateningto quit Java . I’m not crying Chicken Little just yet, but perhaps it’s time to start looking for the Next Big Thing. There are certainly a lot of contenders out there: Ruby (and Rails), Scala, Groovy (and Grails). My guess is there’ll be a couple of false starts before a clear winner is declared.
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That's right kids. I's back with a new game project. I will post these two tantalizing morsels for you. Let the wild speculation begin! I realize the chill music in the video doesn't exactly match the motif of the above image, or the whole game really, but hey, it's just a tech demo. No need to start murdering people just yet.
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Or: Poor man’s dependency injection: Singleton-initialized field As dependency injection frameworks like Spring have become central in software applications in the last few years, the conventional view is now that the Singleton pattern is evil and should never be used. Instead, relationships between objects in your system should be managed by a dependency injection container. I have started disliking the consequence of this strategy very mu..
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I just pre-ordered tickets to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 at 12:05am on Thursday, November 18th - the opening night.
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Circular dependencies on Foreign Key constraints (Oracle)
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www.databasesandlife.com
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15 years ago
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Sometimes it’s valid to have tables that reference one another. For example: A photo table stores photos, each of these photos belongs in a folder A folder table, but each folder has mandatory (not null) "cover" photo So both tables reference one another, but how do you create the tables, and how do you insert data? If you try and create either of the tables, the other would need to exist in order to create the table wit....
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JMX had good intentions but the API is only implemented in Java, a Java product for Java, with no access to the outside world. Jython was one of the solution but many times I had needed to call JMX from a CPython. Jpype solved this problem and works extremely well. Just install Jpype then try something like this: The execution is really really fast, faster than a jvm run ?? and memory usage is really really slow !
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It’s been a busy weekend of makeup and Slovakian hunks. Ebony & Ivory makeup launch A while ago I was invited by my wonderful hairdresser to come to the Ebony & Ivory makeup launch. I of course said yes - what kind of a horrible person would I be if I passed up the opportunity to play with a new line of makeup while being offered free food and champagne and getting to watch makeovers? (As a note I should addI don’t really like champagne…a..
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OpenPSA is an web-based management suite for consulting companies. The GPLd suite includes functionalities like calendaring and contact management, product configurations, sales processes, project management and invoicing. The application was originally developed by Nemein but since 2008 has seen excellent maintenance work by the Content Control team. As a result of last weekend's Midgard developer meeting in FSCONS, the OpenP..
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I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy build systems, or if asking or expecting developers to have scons installed is unreasonable for some reason. The main reason that scons is cool to me, and the thin..
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I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy build systems, or if asking or expecting developers to have scons installed is unreasonable for some reason. The main reason that scons is cool to me, and the thin..
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Ah yes, the humble hamburger, also known as the burger. A special sandwich from the far away land of Hamburg.
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This article was posted on Hacker News yesterday. It explains/lists the Clojure web stack. When I started playing with Clojure, I had a very hard time grasping an overview of the libraries out there, this post would have helped me a great deal. There are also some things there that I didn't know about.
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A few months ago I bought an HTC Desire from Telus. While I loved the phone, it had problems from the beginning. The keyboard would regularly freeze mid- email/sms and the only way to revive the device was to pull out the battery and restart the phone. It would often reboot when an incoming call was ringing. This is a major failure for a phone - at the very least it should be able to accept phone calls.
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This article was posted on Hacker News yesterday. It explains/lists the Clojure web stack. When I started playing with Clojure, I had a very hard time grasping an overview of the libraries out there, this post would have helped me a great deal. There are also some things there that I didn't know about.
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The more I code, the more I’ve learned to appreciate keeping the code clean even during complex refactorings. By “clean”, I mean that the code always compiles and the test always run. I often find myself in a situation where I have a method call that’s starting to accumulate parameters. Something like this: showPersonCreateForm(writer, firstName, firstNameErrorMessage, lastName, lastNameErrorMessage,....); After three or four parameters, th..
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