Month: January 2018
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Changing the CSV Delimiter and Enclosure Characters on a Mac
Read more…: Changing the CSV Delimiter and Enclosure Characters on a MacTIL that you can’t change the CSV delimiter or enclosure characters on Excel for Mac or Apple Numbers. You have to use Open Office.
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Building JSON for WPComplete in Excel with Concatenate
Read more…: Building JSON for WPComplete in Excel with ConcatenateTIL how to build JSON strings in Excel with concatenate.
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macOS Excel Fill Down Keyboard Shortcut
Read more…: macOS Excel Fill Down Keyboard ShortcutI never remember the keyboard shortcut for Fill Down in Excel on macOS, so I’m posting it here where I’ll have it. Control + D.
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Three More Book Notes
Read more…: Three More Book NotesI’m catching up on my book notes. Today I posted three more: Show Your Work, Shoe Dog, and E-Myth Revisited.
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Catching up on Book Notes
Read more…: Catching up on Book NotesI’m catching up on my book notes. There are a lot of books I read this past year that I neglected to post notes for, so I’m getting caught up on that. I posted five new books to my Book Notes section today: Kindred, Stories of Your Life and Others, A Burglar’s Guide to the…
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How to Back Up Your Laravel Homestead Databases
Read more…: How to Back Up Your Laravel Homestead DatabasesToday I upgraded from Homestead 4.0.0 to 5.0.1 so I could test my sites in PHP 7. That was a major upgrade and a number of things changed, so I decided that I needed to back up my databases before I did the upgrade. I’d only ever dumped specific databases before, but TIL how to…
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Free Charting Tools for Your Next Article
Read more…: Free Charting Tools for Your Next ArticleA Praxis participant emailed me last week asking for recommendations on free embeddable charting tools for an article he is writing. I thought that the information would be useful for everyone, so I wrote an article with examples!
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Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll
Read more…: Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to JekyllEarlier this week I did a major revamp of cagrimmett.com. It started with redesigning my page templates to include a sidebar, then it morphed into making a long-standing goal of mine reality: Reviving the posts from my old 2008-2012 WordPress blog and getting them into Jekyll while preserving old links. Here’s how I did it.
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SVG Viewbox
Read more…: SVG ViewboxTIL how to use the viewbox attribute on an SVG to make it responsive and preserve the aspect ratio.
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Altcoin Research: What is Sia?
Read more…: Altcoin Research: What is Sia?This month I’m spending some time researching altcoins. I’m posting my notes on Yours.org. First up: Sia.
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Persistence with Chrome Dev Tools
Read more…: Persistence with Chrome Dev ToolsTIL that you can save changes you make with Chrome Dev Tools directly to your disk.
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CSS Confetti
Read more…: CSS ConfettiTIL how to make confetti with CSS. No javascript needed.
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WordPress Template Hierarchy
Read more…: WordPress Template HierarchyTIL a ton about the WordPress template hierarchy and the conditionals that select them.
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Genesis Framework’s Hooks and Filters
Read more…: Genesis Framework’s Hooks and FiltersTIL about Genesis hooks and filters.
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100 Highlights of 2017
Read more…: 100 Highlights of 2017Derek Magill’s 100 Things That Made My Year post inspired me to write one, too. Here are my 100 highlights of 2017:
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CSS Grid
Read more…: CSS GridTIL about CSS Grid