In an effort to improve my Git commit messages I’ve decided to employ a commit message template. This starts with a file in my Home directory vi ~/.git-commit-msg-template Three simple lines beginning with # so if I ignore them, so does Git. # What this commit does # Why this commit is being made # […]
Setting Up Unit Tests with WP-CLI and VVV
Tried to set up unit tests tonight as I’ve done myriad times before. This time I was getting nowhere. The database was being created but that was it. As usual, I was running install-wp-tests.sh from the command line after ssh-ing into the Vagrant box. vagrant@vvv:/srv/www/plugins/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/aviation-weather-from-noaa$ bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root ‘root’ localhost latest + install_wp + ‘[‘ […]
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DD-WRT and Brother 8890DW Wifi Connection
After upgrading my router firmware I couldn’t help but notice I’d lost access to my 8890DW. I’d been using WPA2 Personal/TKIP prior to the upgrade and had no issues. While trying several combinations of TKIP/AES with WPA2, WPA and even WEP I came across a comment claiming the printer only supports AES with WPA2. I’m […]
Upgrading Oracle Application Express to 5.0 on Ubuntu 14.04
So I got Oracle 11gR2 installed on my headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine and noticed Application Express was version 4.0.2. Oracle’s instructions for upgrading seemed straight forward so I ran with it. I received no errors but was unable to access /apex/apex_admin. I came across this post which uses a different approach to loading the […]
Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Ubuntu 14.04 using OhMyZsh
Following this post verbatim worked great on fresh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install on VMware Fusion but I had to make a couple modifications for the 14.04 LTS install on a physical machine in my closet. I’m sure there are other workarounds but this is what worked for me: Making changes to /etc/environment did not work for me. Instead I […]
