7 articles tagged tutorial.
While bundling up a recent side project for launch, I had to generate favicons for the project. A simple side project, the favicon was basically just an emoji. Rather than generating a bunch of png and ico files, could I just use the emoji directly?
When working on a presentation in Google Slides, using emojis can be risky as they get lost if you need to export the deck to PDF. This is particularly true of the Mac flavour of emojis.
Efficient video encoding has meant that sharing mp4/webm files has become more widespread. However for tools that don't readily support video playback (Google Slides..), it's sometimes still necessary to use gifs. Happily, ffmpeg makes this very easy!
Google drive is a handy place to store videos. Often those videos need to be shared and embedded elsewhere, but finding the embed code for these videos isn't nearly as simple as with Youtube or Vimeo!
Eircom's eFibre product is their fastest home broadband offering, promising speeds of up to 100mb. The connection speeds are generally quite good, being capable of handling TV, Netflix and a handful of other connected devices all at once without any real issue on the speed. However the one black mark against the service would be the intermittent issues with the eircom DNS servers. This can often cause internet connection problems, where the net connection shows as active but nothing loads. Frustrating!
Recently I ran in to a particularly odd database problem – a mysql table that both existed and didn’t at the same time.
Recently I needed to move a database I had running in RDS to a machine on a new digitalocean account. Usually a fairly simple process, the first step of which is to export the database using mysqldump. But when I ran the command locally, I got an unusual error - "Couldn't execute 'SET OPTION SQL_QUOTE_SHOW_CREATE=1':You have an error in your SQL syntax"