Category: WebDev & Code
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Migrating from phpBB to Google Groups
For many years I’ve run a tiny web site for the village we live and work in. 8 years ago (or maybe more) I added a forum to the site using phpBB, as they say about themselves ‘THE #1 FREE, OPEN SOURCE BULLETIN BOARD SOFTWARE’. It’s been very good software, regularly updated and very easy…
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Birthday Calculator – in case you don't want to wait a whole year to celebrate being alive
We have a tradition where I live. We celebrate being alive with a party and that party generally coincides with being alive for another 31,557,600 seconds. 31,557,600 seconds happens to be just about equal to a solar year, which is a happy co-incidence as it’s not so easy to remember otherwise. I decided I could really…
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Virtual PDF Printer for our small office network – a step by step how to
Alternative title: How I got multiple cups-pdf printers on the same server. (I didn’t, but postprocessing let me work around the problem). Preamble: I have a small business. For years we’ve been creating PDFs from any computer on our network through a “virtual appliance’ called YAFPC (“Yet Another Free PDF Composer”). The appliance originally ran…