Quick Tips – Reset MySQL Root Password and Reconfigure phpMyAdmin

I managed to either forget or not configure the root password for the MySQL instance on my Raspberry Pi... While searching around I found some step by step instructions on Ask Ubuntu (A Stack Exchange site), by a user named Amigo Chan... They worked a treat; Ctrl + Alt + T to launch terminal sudo [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:16+01:00February 10th, 2015|Data, Linux, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Raspberry Pi, Tips|0 Comments

Quick Tips – Creating a Zip Backup Script in Linux

Over the next few weeks (and possibly months), I'm going to create a series of quick tips, as I'm delving into linux (Raspbian), when I'm programming away on my new Raspberry Pi 2. I've already learnt loads, so I need to get it written down before I forget it all! This little tip is something [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:16+01:00February 8th, 2015|Linux, Raspberry Pi, Scripts, Tips|0 Comments

WordPress & Gravity Forms: Registration Validation and Redirection – Pt 1

Introducing WordPress... I've been working more and more, over the last 6 months or so, with WordPress for one of my larger clients. As I'm sure you're aware, WordPress is a blogging platform come entire website framework, which is it seems more and more companies are turning to in order to create the basis of their [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:16+01:00January 31st, 2015|Development, Gravity Forms, Wordpress|0 Comments

Viewing the .net Debug Log using DbgView

Every day is a learning day, and today I needed some way for my client to view the debug log for the Debug Version of an Application I created to test a piece of hardware which was acting up. After a little searching around I came across the Microsoft Sysinternals DebugView application; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647 Microsoft describe [...]

Freeing up Reserved / Allocated Serial ports

In my line of work, I spend a lot of time interfacing to devices using a Serial (RS232) connection. This often necessitates the use of USB to Serial port converters. A frustrating issue I often come up against is that, each time a new one of these converters is attached, or indeed an existing to [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00June 13th, 2014|Development, Hardware, Serial Ports, Tips, Windows|0 Comments