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ProgrammingWeb-tech - html/css/jsWordpress

jQuery – test jQuery is running

August 25, 2025 dradma

Testing if jQuery is loaded and running…

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PowerShellProgramming

Powershell – Bulk check of image files

February 13, 2025 dradma

A powershell script to check all images within a specified folder. Results are shown in the console and in a log file.

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ProgrammingR for Statistics

R – Import historic ASX data for selected companies

November 19, 2024 dradma

General steps for importing Australian Stock Market (ASX) Data for selected companies from Yahoo finance using yfR

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ProgrammingR for Statistics

R – Import data from HTML web site

November 18, 2024 dradma

A quick overview of using rvest from R for data science

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R for Statistics

R – Notes & future requirements

September 27, 2024 dradma

  Steps that I need to be able to perform efficiently in R: Descriptive stats for each variable in a

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ProgrammingWeb-tech - html/css/js

CSS file structure template

March 9, 2024 dradma

A working version of the table of contents and associated comments to put in a css file to aid navigating within styling sheets.

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PHPWordpress

WordPress – Moving wordpress installation to subfolder

April 13, 2022 dradma

After installing wordpress into home directory (ie public_html ) I realised it is not as clean as one would want

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ProgrammingWeb-tech - html/css/js

CSS – Responsive design basics

January 25, 2022 dradma

Core principles to follow for web page layout: Appropriate break points for the most popular devices…phones, tablets/laptops & PCs are: Smart phone < 768px < Tablet < 1023px < Desktop Example: @media only screen and (max-width: 768px){ /* CSS rules to apply to smart phones goes here */ }

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Javascript & related librariesWeb-tech - html/css/js

jQuery – list all class names

January 5, 2022 dradma

While overhauling a site, I ended up with many obsolete rules in classes that are no longer applied. To help clean up the CSS stylesheet I wanted to list all class names so I could do a comparison. This answer from stackoverflow did 90% of what I needed

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Git & githubProgramming

.gitignore for wordpress development

December 25, 2021 dradma

Without a correctly set .gitignore file during site development using wordpress, thousands of files are unnecessarily tracked. WordPress and wordpress

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