Wordpress ‘How To’ Guide

So, as I usually ask near the start of my posts, what’s this post about? I’ve setup a whole bunch of Wordpress blogs in my time. Some have been for personal use, some for friends that need help getting started, some I’ve helped friends with and some have leaned more towards being commercial in nature. All of them, though, have followed a pretty similar process when it comes to the installation...

Adobe Lightroom – Transferring DNG files to another computer

This post assumes you are shooting RAW and using Lightroom 2 Both iMac machines at my place are used with Adobe Lightroom for photographic processing. Today I needed to transfer some photos from one machine to the other but Lightroom wouldn’t transfer the develop settings, only the files themselves. Here’s how to transfer the develop settings too. By default Adobe Lightroom is configured to only store...

27″ of shiny glass fruit?

Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve switched from Windows to Mac. WHOA hold on there … my site says I dabble in .NET Development, right? How does THAT work on Mac? Ahh well, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, which I’m trialling at the moment, is the answer there. Version 5, the newest version, has a cool mode called Coherence that means apps running in the Windows virtual environment...

Microsoft Excel – Delete matching rows

As part of my new role at Fujitsu here in Wellington I’ve been running a whole load of reports from the SAN I’ve been assigned to. I’m not going to go into any detail about the SAN itself other than to say it’s from HP (for obvious reasons) but the reports I get from the reporting tools aren’t that useful in themselves. Many tens of thousands of lines of reporting data is hard to read...

Aptana Studio drops native PHP support

Gutted! Aptana Studio, the editor I use for PHP development, has released the latest version, 2.0, and removed support for native PHP editing at the same time. ...