This came about from needing a way to automatically post to a Pinterest board. Unlike most social sites, Pinterest doesn’t have a public API to…
This came about from needing a way to automatically post to a Pinterest board. Unlike most social sites, Pinterest doesn’t have a public API to…
For a site I’m working on I needed a way to intercept a comment and block if a specific condition wasn’t met. This is what…
This comes from needing a quick and easy way to rotate a String in Java.
Needed a way to count how many quiz attempts students had on a specific quiz over a certain grade. The query below works with the…
Quick little snippet to toggle the value of a checkbox with jQuery. I needed this a couple days ago using a span with a font…
Is XAMPP slow?
I’ve used XAMPP for pretty much as long as I’ve been doing web development. It makes it trivial to get Apache, MySQL, and PHP set up.Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 though I’ve noticed it was running much slower. I just assumed that XAMPP is slow. There was also an upgrade to XAMPP as part of that, although I don’t remember what versions.
The slowness was especially noticeable working on Moodle plugins. It was almost unusable, although that’s not too surprising with the 250-300 database tables that Moodle uses.
Googling brought a bunch of potential solutions
And all of these seemed to help just a little bit, but so little that it could have just been psychological.
This is another one of those plugins that I’d thought about writing and Google kept me from needing to. Sometimes when building a WordPress site I’ll need…
A couple of months ago we bought an . Although I haven’t run it long enough to know how well it holds up, it’s been…
It’s happened at least a dozen times. I’ll punch in a bunch of short answer questions into Examview so that I could inmport into Moodle.…
Spent more time than I’d like to admin banging my head against my keyboard when NetBeans wouldn’t minify a specific JavaScript file. Instead of correctly…