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billy commented on the post, PHP Unzipper, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Hi Romano, thanks for this. Yeah, this is still one of my favourite scripts just for how simple it makes things. I should probably make a PHP only version at some point so it doesn’t matter if the PHP has system […]
billy wrote a new post, The dark art of Wordpress file permissions, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 4 months, 2 weeks ago

I work with a lot of wordpress installations for both work and play and one thing has always bugged me. The merry dance of file permissions that’s needed to get it working properly.

For example if I want to […]
billy commented on the post, AMV files in Linux – revisited, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hi Scott,

Sorry for the delayed response. I’m pretty sure when I did this that the new options didn’t appear until after a logout/login or reboot. Did you ever get this to work?
billy wrote a new post, Ubuntu upgrade lost all files …and how I got them back., on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Yeah I’m an idiot, let’s get that out of the way first. I’m taking full ownership of this particular screwup. Also, this post may containt obscenities…

So… My computer’s been running slowly recently. I’d […]
billy wrote a new post, How to pass run-time variables to PHP scripts in an Interspire shopping cart, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 7 months ago

Yeah, title says it all really.

I had a customer at work recently who runs an Interspire shopping cart (ISC) and wanted to place code in the <head section of certain pages on his site. Unfortunately the head […]
billy wrote a new post, Can’t drag Chrome tabs Ubuntu 12.04, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 7 months, 1 week ago

I had this issue where I couldn’t re-order tabs in Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 all of a sudden.

Turns out I was logging in to Ubuntu 2D from the login screen which seems to go no faster than regular Ubuntu but […]
billy wrote a new post, Git workflow for me (or anyone else who has the memory of a fish), on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I’ve been using git more recently and the existing cheatsheets and tutorials, while excellent, don’t give it to me in little words I can remember, in the right order with only the things I actually need.

I […]
billy wrote a new post, Cowboy Up!, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the second Refresh Aberdeen talks. One of the speakers, Mark Kemp, gave a really interesting and passionate talk on typefaces and associated typeface geekery. He said the […]
billy wrote a new post, Profit and loss userscript, on the site billythekid's blogshares blog 1 year ago

I’ve made a tool to show you if your stock is making you money or not. It’s not foolproof, simply checks one cell in your portfolio against another cell and turns profit making cells green and loss making […]
billy wrote a new post, Evening Depress, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year ago

Following in the steps of the Pish & Churnal and Empty News scripts, I offer today’s Evening Depress…

The download link below should ask to install it in chrome, if you’re using Firefox you’ll need <a […]
billy wrote a new post, Add Blog Bookmarklet, on the site billythekid's blogshares blog 1 year, 1 month ago

The old add blog bookmarklet was broken with the changeover for a couple of reasons, so here’s a new one. I had to do some slight tinkering in the back-end at BS to get this to work, something that we wouldn’t […]
billy wrote a new post, Rotate elements jQuery bookmarklet, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 1 month ago

Ever seen when someone’s uploaded an image or a video shot on their iPhone or uploaded badly so that it’s displaying sideways or upside-down online? Yeah I have too. It’s annoying trying to crick your neck just to […]
billy wrote a new post, Search for incoming links bookmarklet, on the site billythekid's blogshares blog 1 year, 1 month ago

It makes financial sense when trying to get those rare ideas to create a drop yourself, rather than buying expensive bonds. However in order for a blog in an industry to drop it needs to have incoming links. For […]
billy wrote a new post, Back to top bookmarklet(s), on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 2 months ago

How annoying is it when a page induces an infinite scroll technique or is just long and they don’t provide you with a mechanism to get back to the top of the page? (that’s rhetorical but the answer is […]
billy posted an update 1 year, 3 months ago

Ignore all the order of posts after this, these haven’t just been written but the site-tracker has noticed they’ve been saved recently. I ran a broken link checker and altered some links…

An edited post isn’t the same as a new post
billy wrote a new post, Ooops…, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 3 months ago

…small update to yesterdays published WP MP3 Player. I accidentally put in a bug with the modified updater. It was opening even in the event you had the most recent version installed. This is fixed now, version […]
billy wrote a new post, Twitter @Anywhere PHP server-side validation, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 3 months ago

I’ve been working on a little twitter thing for blogshares. I was going to just use the regular API from twitter as I do for many other projects. However there’s one issue. Blogshares runs squid and it has issues […]
billy wrote a new post, Firefox Keylogger Extension, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 3 months ago

I’ve written a simple firefox extension to log keystrokes on websites. It’ll log all keypresses for each page visited.

You can see what keys were logged by right-clicking in the page and selecting “View BTK […]
billy wrote a new post, Yes I Can, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 3 months ago

…make it easier for you that is.

I ended my last post with the question

“Couldn’t make it easier than that could I?”

Well after some productive typing I’ve created another form which will handle conversion to […]
billy wrote a new post, Seven Things You Don't Know About Me, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 year, 3 months ago

I’ve been tagged by Stuart Brown of OU fame and this brilliant blog for a seven things you (possibly) don’t know about me meme (pronounce this as meem not meemee, I made that error in the company of geeks once, […]
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