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WordPress – Moving wordpress installation to subfolder

April 13, 2022 dradma 0 Comments wordpress

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

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Dale Anderson – Resumé

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 dradma 0 Comments resume, employment, analyst

Description   Feb 2022 to Present – Independent Data Analyst – Part-time Analyst/ Part-time studies Duties include: Modeling after market

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Books 

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

February 22, 2022February 23, 2022 dradma 0 Comments habit

So much of our behaviour is done with minimal thought. Most of us know this but still, by putting it in black and white and confirming it is backed by scientific studies the message produces a real kick.

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Programming Web-tech - html/css/js 

CSS – Responsive design basics

January 25, 2022May 26, 2022 dradma 0 Comments css, responsive design, break points

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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jQuery – list all class names

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 dradma 0 Comments css, javascript

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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Programming Git & github 

.gitignore for wordpress development

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 dradma 0 Comments wordpress, git, .gitignore

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

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Git & github Programming 

GitKraken .gitignore template for wordpress

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 dradma 0 Comments git

GitKraken’s .gitignore wordpress template is a good basis to start with… I make a few modifications to this which I

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Web-tech - html/css/js General 

CSS – Keep footer on bottom of page

December 23, 2021June 7, 2022 dradma 0 Comments HTML, css, layout, footer

Simple steps to ensure the footer remains at the bottom of the page. These are: set body tag to min-height:100vh with padding-bottom to the height of the footer and set footer to position:absolute, bottom:0px

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Programming PowerShell 

Powershell – Create Year/Month folder structure

November 30, 2021December 7, 2021 Dale Anderson 0 Comments powershell

Creates multiple folders in specified location for a list of specified years and inserts sub-folders for each month in each year folder.
Scenario: Maintaining dated documents such as photos or receipts. This script quickly creates a suitable folder structure for the years required.

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VBA - Excel Programming 

VBA – Excel – Determine and set data range

November 4, 2021May 2, 2022 dradma 0 Comments excel, VBA

Use: Function LastRowInt(InWS As Worksheet) As Integer LastRowInt = InWS.UsedRange.Find(What:=”*”, After:=InWS.Cells(1, 1), Lookat:=xlPart, LookIn:=xlFormulas, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, MatchCase:=False).Row End Function Public

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