Richard JE Cooke

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2022

• The best cloud storage for Linux (Ubuntu · Kubuntu) - OneDrive · Dropbox · Mega · IceDrive · pCloud · InSync · ProtonDrive · Google Drive
• How to create neural style art on your local machine

2019

• A prepared digital piano in Pure Data

2018

• Creating an abstract animation music video in Blender
• Switching from Wordpress to Hexo
• How to install Reaper, Drum Pro, and Helm synthesizer in Ubuntu Linux fast & easily

2017

• How to make a video in Reaper
• Which referencing system is best? (or why footnotes are worse than numbers)
• How to create animated SVGs (and display them in WordPress)
• How to choose a WordPress theme: Avada vs Enfold vs X vs Jupiter vs Divi vs Beaver Builder vs Genesis
• How to run your tests against an in-memory database (with a Rails Rspec MySql example)
• How to post cron job results or any other script to Slack
• How to use Docker to experiment on an existing Wordpress site

2016

• How to make a custom getter & setter for an ActiveRecord (Ruby on Rails) model's attributes/properties
• The making of Ekaya.vip - easy identity & credit checks for tenants
• Choosing a RESTful API node.js framework: koa vs loopback vs hapi
• How to set up Flyway command line to deploy multiple databases
• AWS cloud hosting vs. a local managed server host for a web app in Cape Town
• UXPin review (and Pidoco & web Balsamiq)
• How to switch your website to free HTTPS using Let's Encrypt certificates
• What's the difference between OpenID, OAuth, and SAML - and which should I use for single sign on (SSO) on my web application?
• How to download data from Yahoo finance
• How to prevent WordPress breaking your layout when pasting HTML into the text editor

2015

• How to create your web site, application, and URLs in IIS
• ECCR - The Western Cape Government Health web application for discharges
• ObjectDumper - log details of objects in memory for debugging errors
• Using the observer pattern to replace slow watches in AngularJS
• Create a PDF from an HTML page in C#
• Print a PDF dynamically from the server using a hidden iframe
• Show a PDF from the server in a new tab on button click
• Dynamically (programmatically) add a directive to an AngularJS view on click
• Prefer sentence case to title case
• Use a web worker to asynchronously populate a lunr.js full text search index
• Compressing data between server and web browser using LZstring and local storage in HTML 5
• 'Your' versus 'my' on website interfaces
• Trigger a button click when pressing enter in a textbox in AngularJS

2014

• How to connect Visual Studio 2013 to Intersystems Caché through ODBC
• How to make an animated .GIF screenshot
• Keep users signed in after ASP.NET deploy
• Why is my error not being caught by Application_Error() on Azure?
• Two quick tips to reduce Azure cloud service costs
• How to migrate Azure environments (copy databases & storage accounts)
• Settings in Azure
• How to upload a file to an Azure storage account
• Deploying Azure web apps (faster) & remote debugging
• Export SVN to Git
• Joomla user list component
• WellSaid: '30 Seconds' board game clone
• Setup a callback in C# with Moq using params parameters
• jQuery Mobile notification popup
• Configuring a new machine with PowerShell