YouTube iframe video stays above overlays
I had a YouTube video staying on top of a jQuery lightbox overlay and knew from past experience that it requires setting the wmode = opaque. You can use transparent but opaque is apparently faster (see...
View ArticleWindows 7 stuck on personalized settings for: Windows Desktop Update
After doing a number of updates, I wasn’t able to log back in as the domain administrator on a Windows 7 (64bit) machine. A dialog with the text “personalized settings for: Windows Desktop Update” was...
View ArticlePPSR Australia – PHP Example
Having trouble finding a good PHP example to use to start registering your vehicles at http://www.ppsr.gov.au/? Then here you go. A few hours of frustration and looking up other peoples code led me to...
View ArticleAustralian Government ABN Lookup – Webservice – PHP Example
The PHP example code supplied by http://abr.business.gov.au/Webservices.aspx relied on the nuSoap class. I rewrote it to fit our companies needs, based on what I’ve learned from developing the PPSR...
View ArticleMysqli Prepared Statements – Debugging/Echoing SQL Queries
Delving into prepared statements for Mysqli, I discovered the first shortcoming of using the ‘improved’ method… debugging your SQL statements. Whilst you can call up the error message that might occur,...
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Squid Proxy Editor for White/Black Lists (PHP/MySQL)
A small project to help with familiarisation of Github and to assist the System Administrator with maintaining white/black lists for Squid3. Still in development/testing but should be helpful for...
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Eco Surf Art
I’ve been a big fan of Scott Denholm’s art work for some time, so it gives me great pleasure to help promote his art work and new website Eco Surf Art, which showcases a number of Scotty’s eco friendly...
View ArticleIntellij Kubuntu Alt+Backquote VCS Operations Popup
An annoyance with Kubuntu and Intellij where they share the same key mappings disallowing you from opening the VCS Operations Popup. You could change Intellij’s key maps but if you’re working on...
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NBN – iiNet – Speedtest
I quite clearly don’t have 25Mbps but have to go through the motions to prove that I can only get 11Mbps at most on my NBN connection. There was no way I was going to do this by hand 3 times a day, for...
View ArticleWatch Foxtel Now on Ubuntu Chrome
Thought I’d try out Foxtel Now to see if it’s worthy of the money they are asking. Whilst it is a significant improvement as far as quality and usability, it’s annoying to discover it won’t work in...
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