Programming Trail

This blog was setup as a result of too much programming, I realised that I was getting back to the same problems which I had solved a few years ago. I thought a blog that can serve to remind me of what I did when i ran into programming problems :) So yep. Hence the title programming trail.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Best webpage downloader

So far, the best I have used is: http://www.sitesucker.us/mac/mac.html

Friday, June 27, 2014

Unable to use Fontawesome because of library PIL

Was trying to use fontawesome library to generate PNG files. However, met many errors along the way. In simple steps: 1. downloaded and ...

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Warning: mysql_connect(): No such file or directory in but file exists in terminal

This will fix the issue: sudo su ln -s /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock mkdir /var/mysql ln -s /App...

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Custom files redirection error on wordpress

Even though the permissions for the folders and files are correct, a 404 error kept showing on the wordpress site. This can be resolved by ...

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Persistent ampersand/html entities in jquery

You can solve it by doing this: $(' ').html("HTML YOU WANT TO CONVERT").text()

Sunday, April 27, 2014

SimpleXML error - unterminated entity reference.

While repurposing a blog today into XML doc, ran into the usual ampersand error. Warning : SimpleXMLElement::addChild(): unterminated e...

Weird characters in PHP crawler/curl such as â€™s...

Solution is to convert the doctype to UTF with the following line of code at the header: header ( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=u...

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