Dan Nicholson

HTML displaying Â£ instead of £

Dan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:42:55 +0000

Another quick fix – if you are finding that your html page is outputting Â£ instead of £ it is more than likely because you need to specify the content type meta tag:

HeidiSQL query results hidden

Dan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:26:22 +0000

If you are trying to run a query in HeidiSQL and find that the results are not displaying, it is probably because the box has been pushed off the bottom by the query editor window. This can be caused by resizing of the various windows.

To fix this issues:

Close all instances of HeidiSQL
Open regedit.exe
Delete the entry \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HeidiSQL\querymemoheight
Restart HeidiSQL

Adding CSS3 Support to IE 9

Dan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:16:24 +0000

If you have been developing your first CSS3 theme in a non-IE browser such as Google Chrome, you might find that when you preview your new design in IE 9 there is still no support.

Luckily the solution is simple, all you need to do is add the following tag to yoursection and you should be good to go:

Install subversion on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7

Dan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:26:21 +0000

INSTALL SUBVERSION

$ yum -y install subversion

CHECK INSTALLATION

$ svn –version

$ svnadmin –version

CHECKOUT REPOSITORY

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test folder

UPDATE FROM REPOSITORY (navigate to folder)

$ svn update

COMMIT TO REPOSITORY (navigate to folder)

$ svn commit -m “your commit message here”

Install CNTLM proxy on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7

Dan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:23:49 +0000

Download rpm file from http://cntlm.wiki.sourceforge.net
rpm -i [file]
$ nano /etc/cntlm.conf
Username user
Domain domain
Password password
Proxy proxy:8080
$ service cntlmd start
System > Administration > Unbreakable Linux Network Configuration > General: Enable HTTP Proxy = localhost:3128

Updated Links

Dan — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:08:20 +0000

I have been working on getting together a list of useful websites and I have now added those links to a new page on this website:

Links

If you have any suggestions for new links to add, please let me know.

I have also noticed that my Google ranking is dropping, probably because I haven’t updated this site for nearly a year. I will therefore post an update or two soon, I promise!

Graphics Work – Space Scenes

Dan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:45:37 +0000

I have been working with Adobe Photoshop to create a few space scenes for a project I’m working on. Below are a few of the new images.

The first was a basic test of one method of star-field generation, the second was another method, and the third was a variation on the blend methods used to see the effect it would have on the finished piece. Click for the full image.

ChessIT – My Online Chess Game

Dan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:45:02 +0000

I have had this script online for a while, but I have had a few requests to make it public so that people can use it themselves.

ChessIT is a php and xml based program that lets you play chess against another person.

chess.dannicholson.co.uk

The system allows the majority of chess moves (some of the more obscure ones aren’t quite in yet), and even has a move history replay feature by hovering over the move list to the left of the board.

I originally wrote this as a test of a chess move validation script, but it turned out to be quite a fun game, so have a look and invite your friends!

Server Change

Dan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:01:29 +0000

I have just moved this site to a shiny new hosting package and imported the content from the previous server, everything seems to be working but there may be a few images & files missing that the export missed. If you find anything that I haven’t spotted yet let me know and I’ll see if I can track it down.

Javascript XML Parser

Dan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:06:43 +0000

This code was originally for Adobe Illustrator 10 as I needed something to parse a basic XML file and create an image from the data. It shouldn’t be too difficult to adapt it for other uses, as most of it is generic Javascript code.

It is a very basic version of an XML parser but might come in handy as a starting point for anyone working on something similar.

Javascript Basic XML Parser (version 2.0)

NB: Some of the variables at the top are used in my original ‘dealWithIt’ function, so feel free to delete them if they are no longer used.