Written by Rob Allen
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on Feb. 13, 2020
I recently needed to validate the value created by PHP for its session ID. After a bit of research, I realised that there are two interesting php.ini config settings that relate to this value:session.sid_length is the number of characters in the IDsession.sid_bits_per_character controls the set of …
Written by Rob Allen
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on Jan. 29, 2020
I recently received a MySQL dump file where the various tables in it had foreign keys to each other. I usually restore with this command:mysql --login-path=rob < dump.sqlbut this generated the error:ERROR 1217 (23000) at line 288805: Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint …
Written by Rob Allen
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on Jan. 24, 2020
All projects seem to have a logo these days, so I asked my friend Jane of iD to create a logo for rst2pdf and she came up with this:This met what I was looking for with a clear design that is related to the what the application does, so thank you Jane.I've set the profile icon for the GitHub organi…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Jan. 15, 2020
I currently organise my photo library in Lightroom Classic with one folder per day for my images and then I extensively use collection sets, collections and smart collections to manage the photos that represent an "event", regardless of whether the project is a single day, such as a family BBQ, a …
Written by Rob Allen
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on Jan. 6, 2020
As part of my migration to Lightroom Classic from Photos, I needed to recreate my folder and album structure. In Photos, folders container albums (or other folders) and albums contain photos. An album cannot contain a folder. This maps directly to Lightroom Classic which has "collection sets" for …
Written by Rob Allen
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on Dec. 31, 2019
As we reach the end of 2019, I again get the opportunity to look back at my year through the photos that I took as I have done every year since 2009. I have been doing a Project 365 for a good few years which acts as a diary too, so I have the opportunity to appreciate what happened this year in my …