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I had two tables downloaded from Amazon: Items Order Date Order ID Title Category 1/26/14 102-4214073-2201835 Everyday Paleo Family Cookbook 1/13/14 115-8766132-0234619 Awesome Book A 1/13/14 115-8766132-0234619 Awesome Book B and Orders Order Date Order ID Subtotal 1/6/14 102-6956821-1091413 $43.20 1/13/14 115-8766130-0234619 $19.42 1/16/14 109-8688911-2954602 $25.86 I’m building our Q1 2014 taxes and needed rows […]
Read MoreMy wife and I have been through roughly 10-15 different budget/financial tracking systems. We started with every penny in MS Money, used several different spreadsheets, spent several years in Mint and have pretty much dropped all of that for a top-down strategy that has us budgeting savings, non-discretionary spending, and a rainy day buffer and […]
Read MoreFor my home automation goals, I chose MiCasaVerde VeraLite due to my friend’s recommendation. The VeraLite is a small linux controller that runs the MIDIbox Operating System MiOS and gives a homeowner the ability to easily control lights, security cameras, door locks, alarm systems, and even the thermostat, among many other home systems. For example, […]
Read MoreWhen I work with WordPress, I am still a ruby coder in a PHP environment. I spent several years doing PHP only and have watched the language develop nicely, but still like to focus on Concept/Design, CSS3, Ruby and JavaScript when I’m doing web development work. In the hope that someone might benefit from my […]
Read MoreI’ve started to get much more serious about WordPress themes. For me that means making them from scratch instead of modifying someone else’s theme. Traditionally, I just purchased a template and modified it. Now I’m starting to work with good designers and working from scratch.
Read MoreI love to exercise. It gives me an excellent chance to relax and preserve my overall goal of maximizing my physical strategic margin, or keeping maximum function as long as I can. (I want to be able to wrestle with my grandkids as long as I can.) I also love data. I love to track […]
Read MoreFirst I had to backup my database from Heroku — so I created the database in PostGresSQL. heroku pgbackups:capture curl -o latest.dump `heroku pgbackups:url` pg_restore –verbose –clean –no-acl –no-owner -h localhost -d booher_blog latest.dump Armed with that and the handy Induction I then needed to get my data into a format easily imported by WordPress. […]
Read MoreSo I deleted all my pictures, and I restored them which resulted in a bunch of corrupted images; thousands of corrupted images. To fix this, I wrote the following script in MATLAB using the image processing toolbox: // insert blog here Using matlab I tried to determine what a corrupted image is. First when using […]
Read MoreI had a bunch of bogus images in my directory and I was going through and manually deleting them. I wised up a little bit and thought I would write a quick script. While it ran, I thought I would share with you. I had: 25760 images and probably about 15,000 of them were bunk. […]
Read MoreThis error was pretty hard to solve. I emailed heroku support and they recommended: “https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts”:https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts bq. For git commands to work git needs to use the ssh key associated with that account. It’s probably choosing a key associated with a different account which is causing these permissions errors. You can use a ~/.ssh/config file to […]
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