Video files downloaded from GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar or similar services use a special codec in order to play them. On the plus side, the videos are well compressed and optimised for this kind of use, but on the downside, the codec is not a “standard Windows” codec that can be used by other players such as […]
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New WooCommerce site now live
The www.relaxtimeout.com website was launched over Christmas. It is my first foray into WooCommerce, the free WordPress e-commerce plugin from WooThemes. Although this free shop is designed to hook you into purchasing themes and plugins, it really is a complete product just as it is, and functions well out of the box. I wanted to […]
Kinamu Reporter – set datatypes for exporting
Kinamu Reporter is a reporting tool for Sugar CRM. It supports basic reports and allows the data to be exported to Excel. The problem I was having was that some values stored in Sugar come out as numbers (integers). That was fine until the report was exported to Excel. Once Excel got the numbers, it […]
Jasper Reports overview
Having scratched my head over how all the parts fit together in a new Jasper reporting system for SugarCRM, I finally came across this article: http://jasperforge.org/uploads/publish/ireportwebsite/IR%20Website/ir_getting_started.html The first couple of paragraphs explained what all the parts are, in a way that the deliverer of the system simply could not. Jasper Reports is the central report […]
git mv “permission denied”
Running git command line under Windows 7, I was finding that “git mv” to move a directory to a new location was not working. Some folders would move, and some would not, giving me this error instead: $ cd foo $ git mv my_folder new_parent_folder/ fatal: renaming ‘foo/my_folder’ failed: Permission denied I noticed that […]