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Enable PHP autocompletion in Eclipse (Ubuntu 11.04)

  • posted on October 3, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
For some reason, Eclipse (using PHP Development Tools) doesn’t include built-in PHP functions with a new project. Assuming you downloaded Eclipse from the Ubuntu repository and added PDT
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Python script to fix broken symlinks

  • posted on September 26, 2011
  • William Barnes
  • 3 Comments
  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I recently added a new hard drive and reorganized my increasingly chaotic and whimsically named storage and backup partitions. In the process, I moved a folder containing hundreds of symlinks to a
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Toggle Gnome screensaver lock on USB key insertion

  • posted on September 25, 2011September 26, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
While I like my computer to lock itself automatically when I leave, it gets annoying when it does it every time I get up for a few minutes. I decided that it would be nice if I could toggle the
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Move Gnome 2 panel to secondary monitor

  • posted on September 24, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
This may be irrelevant with Gnome 3, Gnome Shell and Unity taking over, but if you have dual monitors and want the Gnome panel (e.g., menu bar) to span multiple monitors, you can follow these
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Am I being phished?

  • posted on September 13, 2011September 15, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Personal
I received this email from my bank today: Dear William Barenes We have received your statement as returned mail . Please provide the new address for your profile update as you are going to respond to
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WordPress Settings Form Helper

  • posted on September 12, 2011September 15, 2011
  • William Barnes
  • 3 Comments
  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I am currently writing my first WordPress plugin. I attempted to use the Settings API on my plugin’s settings page, but found it was a little cumbersome. So I wrote a helper to cut down the
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+1’d

  • posted on September 3, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I do my best not to criticize other people’s grammar, but if you’re a corporation, you should get it right. I just clicked the +1 button on an article and got told that I “publicly
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Google Circles Revisited

  • posted on July 14, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I’ve been using Google+ for about a week now, and I like it. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe only because it’s like Facebook, but not Facebook. I can share things. I can post comments. I
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Circles

  • posted on July 1, 2011
  • William Barnes
  • 1 Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet
In reply to “Google+ Everyone Should Use It“. I don’t know about Circles as a privacy tool. It’s almost guaranteed that at some point (probably at multiple points), a bug will
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Getting your pictures out of iPhoto

  • posted on September 20, 2010
  • William Barnes
  • 1 Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet
iPhoto, like most Apple products, is great…as long as you only use other Apple products. But once you want to upload a photo using your web browser or copy your library to a non-Mac computer,
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