After setting up the beginnings of the chess game in my IDE I found that there were a lot of files that I accidentally committed but did not need committing as they were related to the IDE. The others in the group are using different IDE’s and have no need to see those files related… Continue reading How to Ignore Files with Git that Have Already been Committed
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How to Host a Jekyll Site on Amazon S3 and CloudFront
This post is part of a series. You can find the previous parts about setting up Jekyll, transferring a domain name from Godaddy to Amazon Route 53, and how to theme a Jekyll site. If you have followed along from the earlier posts you will have a website running locally using Jekyll. You will also… Continue reading How to Host a Jekyll Site on Amazon S3 and CloudFront
Changing the Theme on Jekyll
Since starting to using Jekyll on this blog I have been using the standard built in theme. If you have visited before you will have seen the blog looked like this: The standard theme isn’t quite what I want this blog to look like. I personally prefer a few posts on the home page with… Continue reading Changing the Theme on Jekyll
How to Speed up the Domain Transfer from Godaddy to Another Domain Registrar
Yesterday I started the process to move matthewnewill.com from Godaddy to Amazon Route 53. I went through the process of unlocking the domain at Godaddy, getting an authorisation code from them, and then starting the transfer steps in Route 53. All went fairly smoothly (except a billing issue where my card had just expired a… Continue reading How to Speed up the Domain Transfer from Godaddy to Another Domain Registrar
Switching from WordPress to Jekyll – First Steps
I wanted to switch from WordPress to Jekyll on this blog. I first started using WordPress on May 17, 2006 on another blog and have since used it regularly, and for a period of time between 2009 and 2011 I posted multiple times a day. Since starting this new blog several weeks ago I came… Continue reading Switching from WordPress to Jekyll – First Steps
iMac 27 Inch Mid 2010 SSD Upgrade
I purchased my iMac in 2010; I opted for the lowest spec model. A year after buying it I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 16GB and about a year after that I had to replace a faulty hard drive. Apple recalled the original drive due to a fault in the firmware on the drive,… Continue reading iMac 27 Inch Mid 2010 SSD Upgrade
Creating my First Static Library in Xcode
After learning to program for a couple of years and even posting some tutorials of my own of things I learned along the way, I figured it’s time that I start putting some work out there both in the app store and for developers to use. I work primarily with Xcode and enjoy designing and… Continue reading Creating my First Static Library in Xcode
How to Keep Your PC Safe and Secure
For almost 20 years I tend to have been the go-to guy when people run in to software problems with their PC. Along that journey I have fixed a number of computers and helped bring them back up to speed and make them safe and secure. The purpose of this post is to share with… Continue reading How to Keep Your PC Safe and Secure
How I Make my WordPress Blogs Run Faster
Update 11 Jan 2021: This site is back on WordPress again. Update 21 Jan 2017: TechFright posts were merged in to MatthewNewill.com which runs on Jekyll. I also moved away from PowerVPS a few years ago and went with WebSynthesis for my other blog. I also use a shared MediaTemple account. Some of this content… Continue reading How I Make my WordPress Blogs Run Faster
How to Login Locally on Windows 7 without Specifying Hostname
Just a quick tip for today. I found my self fixing a problem earlier that required I logged out as a user and back in as an admin and back in as a user to test etc… Although the Windows 7 PC was attached to a domain, I didn’t want to log in with a… Continue reading How to Login Locally on Windows 7 without Specifying Hostname