I recommend Ringwood Martial Arts Academy if you are living locally and want to learn Kung Fu, T’ai Chi or Chinese Kickboxing. They train at Ringwood Health & Leisure on a Monday for Kung Fu and Tai Chi and Wednesday for Kickboxing. The coach (Sifu to use the correct term), Matt Young is friendly and has 25 years experience.
SEO and image file names
Surprisingly it looks like even the filename of an image used in a website has SEO benefit – see supporting links below – this may be a pain but a multilingual site should consider duplicating images in order to use different filenames containing keywords in each of the languages a site uses.
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Alternatives to GUID with PHP
GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier. It is a string of letters and numbers and useful to allow website visitors to access a site without needing a username and password because although the probability that a GUID will be duplicated is not zero, it is close enough to zero to be negligible.
In fact Wikipedia says that you would have to generate 2.71 Quintillion (an 18 digit number) GUIDs to have a 50% probability of a collision.
However a GUID isn’t pretty, they look like 204FA460-65C6-DAB0-C69E-013ECE71F5D0 which can be scary to non-technical users when used in a URL.
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A client didn’t like the tab animation used by the WP Bakery (Visual Composer) WordPress plugin.
There aren’t any options to change this, however the nature of JavaScript means that you can override methods.
WP Bakery builds their JavaScript files as jQuery plugins so this example can be adapted to override the method of any jQuery plugin.
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Windows 10 April Update and problems printing to shared printer on a Mac
After installing the Windows 10 April update on my laptop I couldn’t print to the shared printer attached to my Mac any more.
I didn’t remember how I originally got the printer working but I already had Bonjour installed. Bonjour is the recommended way of remote printing between Windows and MacOS (download Bonjour from Apple here https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999)
When I tried to find and connect to the remote printer this time I got the message: “Error 1796 You do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to the printer”.
My account has Admin rights so that shouldn’t have been a problem. I located where the Bonjour executable was found and right clicked to ‘Run as administrator’ but that gave the same message.
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