Here’s a quick run-though of how to boot your Google Nexus 7 into “Recovery Mode”. Recovery mode can be used to: apply update from adb wipe data / factory reset wipe cache partition The steps below can be a bit tricky/finicky to get right so I suggest you read through…
Fix Nexus 7 lag in 7 easy steps. Looking for how to fix Nexus 7 lag? Is your Google Nexus 7 lagging after Kit Kat update? Is your Nexus 7 exhibiting lag after an update in general? Then read on! In this post you’ll see how to speed things up a bit with a…
D3 js Drag and Drop Zoomable Tree. Zoomable, Panning, Collapsible Tree with Auto-sizing. Below you can see an example of a D3.js Drag and Drop Zoomable Tree which is collapsible, panning and auto-sizing. I recently had a need for this functionality for a project and was unable to find any…
If you’re anything like me, you’ll often keep the same browser open for days or even weeks and accumulate a lot of tabs! Is your Google Chrome address bar slow? Recently the omnibox in Google Chrome, the address bar from which you can search amongst other things, had been getting…
If you’ve hit memory issues with large sets of data using the excellent PHPExcel library on your PHP server, here are a couple of tips I found helped a lot on one of my projects when server resources were being stretched. The first good place to start is to increase the…
You open Skype and get a notification about something called BtvStack.exe with the message “BtvStack.exe wants to use Skype” What the heck right?! This turns out to be a Bluetooth Driver requesting access so that if you for example had a Bluetooth headset, you could use it…
Here’s a good link to an opensource and free Flash Charting package that can run on either static .txt files or dynamic data produced by your backend of choice. This could be an alternative to the PHP based charting mentioned in another post Advanced PHP Charting http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
If you’ve ever had the headache of having to export Data from your PHP application into Excel or CSV you know what a mission it can be. Here’s a library which makes it easier and even allows you to read and parse the files back into your application which can…
Sometimes it isn’t possible to leverage client-side charting possibilities via the use of Flash or javascript frameworks such as Sencha with their beautiful charting capabilites. I once worked on a project whereby I needed to integrate charts into PDF output along with saving archive copies for future comparison in an…
This is an old error which has beein causing significant developer pain through the years. Here’s what is basically boils down to If there are any Javascript scripts running inside the body tag or inside a table which is directly a child of body, then most of the time this…