Add Self-Signed SSL To Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04
There are plenty of times when you are working on a website that uses SSL and you need to work on that site locally in your own development environment. Usually you just set things up not to run on SSL...
View ArticleAdd Self-Signed SSL Cert To cURL
In an earlier post we talked about adding a self-signed SSL certificate to Google Chrome so that you can use SSL certificates on your local development machine. This solves the problem of browsing...
View ArticleTexpander – Text Expander For Linux
I’ve been using Ubuntu for a long time and have been lamenting the sad state of autokey and it’s relationship with Firefox and Thunderbird. Autokey is also a little more than I even need. I just want a...
View ArticleFoothills WordPress Meetup Group
Thank you, Lou Anne McKeefery and Foothills WordPress Meetup Group, for the opportunity to present about WordPress ecommerce! You guys had great questions and I’m looking forward to sharing with you...
View ArticleHow To Launch Google Apps With Keyboard Shortcuts
One of the things I really like about using Chrome on Linux is the ability to turn any website into a Desktop-ish App. It’s technically still a web app, but it opens in its own window without a...
View ArticleHow To Record Phone Calls With Audacity on Ubuntu
I’ve seen several tutorials on how to record phone calls with Audacity, but they all seem to be for using Audacity on Windows or Mac. So, here’s how you do it on Ubuntu. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04. It’s...
View ArticleHow To Record Your Screen And Webcam At The Same Time On Ubuntu
There are plenty of screen recording options for Ubuntu. I use Simple Screen Recorder, but there are many others. But none of them have a built-in way of getting a little window that shows you (like...
View ArticleWildcard Subdomains For Local Development – 2017 Update
For years I’ve been using wildcard subdomains for local development rather than having to set up virtual hosts every time I want to spin up a new site. I was using a combination of nginx and dnsmasq to...
View ArticleConfigure Postfix to send email through Gmail
When setting up a local development environment, sometimes you want to actually send real email. If you’re using WordPress, you can install a plugin to run your mail through an SMTP server. But if...
View ArticleTips For Your Main Plugin File
Writing WordPress plugins is great fun because you can build awesome stuff and share it with tons of people very easily. Getting started can be frustrating because there are so many different ways to...
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