Tag: Google

Using Google Sheets and My Maps for making decisions

Two years ago, I moved to Salt Lake City for work. After looking around a bit for a rental property close to my new work, it became clear that I would be better off trying to buy a new home than renting if I could afford to do so. At the time the interest rates and…

April 25, 2015
How to change printer’s IP address on Mac OS X

I was updating my network to use a different subnet and realized that the last time I did that, my HP printer stopped working because a lot of the network drivers set the IP address into the printer settings. So I figured that maybe I would need to update the printer’s IP address on my…

September 27, 2014
Make Chrome Accept a Self-Signed Certificate (on OSX)

If your organization is like most, they will have sites that use a self-signed (or untrusted authority) certificate. From Wikipedia: In cryptography and computer security, a self-signed certificate is an identity certificate that is signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies. This term has nothing to do with the identity of the person…

September 19, 2014
WordPress on CPanel

I had to set up a WordPress instance on a server where my only real access is via cPanel, so I Googled a bit and found this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20859/install-wordpress-manually-on-your-website-using-cpanel-wizards/ First step is to log in to the cPanel, which is typically at some arbitrary port on your server, and log in with your admin credentials. If…

January 1, 2014
Recover a broken WordPress

I was helping out http://www.pmi-sfbac.org whose web site was down. The server was being unresponsive, and Larry Van Cantfort (the Director of Operations for PMI SFBAC) sent me this clue: It appears that httpd has a lot of running processes and when I try to kill them I am unable to. THis is causing the server…

December 30, 2013
How to Get a Google Voice Number for Your Own Email Address

If you want to use some Google services (like Google Voice), and have them associated with your own email address, it’s not all that difficult. First, if you already have a Google account (like a GMail address), you will want to log out of by clicking on your name or icon up in the upper right…

May 3, 2013
Creating a New App (step 1)

I decided I’d walk through creating a new app to replace one I’ve used for years on my iPhone that no longer appears to be maintained. The app in question is called GasBag which as near as I can tell stopped being updated in 2009 (see: http://blog.jam-code.com/). I could just write a quick and dirty…

March 25, 2013
Moving to GMail on your iPhone

After moving from a hosted Exchange service to GMail, you need to set up your email client on the iPhone so that it will receive the push notices. To do this, you need to add a new Exchange service on the device. There’s a nice step by step of this at http://support.google.com/a/users/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740 Alternatively, you can use…

March 5, 2013
Eventbrite Calendar Feed

I volunteer and provide technical support for a few non-profits, one of which is the Project Management Institute San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (http://www.pmi-sfbac.org) where I serve as the VP of Operations and CGO. One of the moves I made in my first year with them was to migrate our event calendar to Eventbrite and…

February 25, 2013
JPA and Maven and multiple persistence units

I needed to convert an existing Netbeans build to use Maven in order to stabilize the code and support Test Driven Development. Generally this was a fairly simple process: just move all the source files and resources to the right folders in a new Maven project, and add the dependencies. Everything was going swimmingly until…

January 12, 2013