Earlier I was playing around with my Skype profile and I realized there wasn’t a link that was obvious to view my own Skype profile. I wanted to make sure profile items that I was allowing only contacts to see were only seen by contacts. Finally I thought of a way to view the profile without…
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Textile formatting is used in numerous wiki applications and other places where easy formatting is needed for text input fields without using a WYSIWYG interface. Currently I am using textile a bunch because I spend at least some time every day adding tickets, updating tickets, and adding/modifying wiki pages in Redmine. In Redmine you have…
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Automatically following people on Twitter when they start following you is easy. All you need to do is sign up for an account at Tweet Later. Setting up and account at Tweet Later will provide you with a dashboard where you can configure multiple Twitter accounts. Once configured you will be able to set up various…
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It is easy to use your default WordPress admin interface to block comments from a certain domain. You can either have these comments require moderation or you can have the comments immediately marked as spam. My suggestion would be to initially have the comments require moderation just to make sure you are not also catching…
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There’s no real easy way to do this, but I’d like to write a database function (in this case a PL/pgSQL function) to run a SQL SELECT statement with custom columns in the output. First, you need to create a custom data type for the custom columns (apparently, this step won’t be necessary when PostgreSQL…
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The Redmine developers turned off Textile inline styles because of a security risk with XSS attacks. I explain below how to turn the inline styles back on if your Redmine server is protected from unauthorized access. I would suggest keeping textile styles off if your Redmine server has public access. The main point of this…
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Recently I did some research on purchasing a toll free number for a project I was working on. I figured it might be useful to others to provide a short list of the options I came across and some of the details. One thing that was important during this search was the fact that the…
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It took me a lot of phone calls with AT&T technical support to try and figure out what the problem was with my 800 number however I finally got the correct answer. I wanted to post this information so hopefully if anyone else runs into this issue they will be able to get the correct…
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Deleting a remote branch from a GitHub account is easy though I have seen numerous ways listed and only one of them worked for me possibly because of syntax errors. Sometimes a temporary branch may be necessary because of adding a contractor to work on a project or possibly just to pause the current projects…
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