Tips for using WordPress for creating media.
Here are some tips for creating media with WordPress. Directions for Editing Media
Social Networks for the life of the world
Here are some tips for creating media with WordPress. Directions for Editing Media
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our creator and our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Most of us know the story of the Good Samaritan. He’s the guy who rescued a mugging victim on a wilderness road, without wondering who that victim was. Does loving our neighbor mean helping a stranger? Yes, of … Read more
This MySQL Stored Function computes the initial bearing — the compass heading to follow — when moving from one point to another on the surface of the earth. Here’s a web site describing this. http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
There’s a relatively new software system for storing, retrieving, and processing time series. InfluxDB
Here’s a list of catalogs of scams and hoaxes, for your debunking pleasure. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/really-true-or-it-hoax-eight-places-find-out.htm
One of my favorite writers is John McPhee of Princeton, NJ. He’s written for The New Yorker since my memory of him began, and published many books with the Macmillan publishing company. He’s the good reason I preach from a manuscript rather than extemporaneously: if a phrase is worth listening to, it’s worth constructing well. There are bad … Read more
When you’re extracting summaries of information from a database, sometimes rows are missing. For example, if you are keeping track of number of customers by day, you might use a query like this: View the code on Gist. You might get a result set like this: 2014-03-07 122 2014-03-08 355 2014-03-10 234 2014-03-11 119 Notice … Read more
If you’re a local chapter of a larger organization, ask for help. Your larger organization may have some excellent services to offer. First: the perfect is the enemy of the good. Do something. Learn from it. Try something else. For the first year or two your online presence will have almost no traffic, so making … Read more
This article is obsolete. There’s a new article about the Rise Calendar Widget here. RiseVision makes a sweet little open source Events gadget. It displays the contents of your favorite public Google Calendar in a scrolling or tabbed window on your digital sign presentation. Here’s the documentation for that Events gadget. This won’t make a … Read more
Do you have a 2005-onward vintage computer from which you need to squeeze a few more years of life? Here’s what you do. Use crucial.com‘s memory upgrade adviser to figure out what RAM you can buy for it, and order that memory. (If you use their adviser software and the memory you order doesn’t work, you … Read more