Adding Custom Format Buttons To tinyMCE in WordPress 4

25. August 2015 in Programming.

Introduction In my technical articles I sometimes use inline fragments typed in a monospace font to highlight code or filenames that appear within floating paragraph text. Back in the days I did this with the <tt> element, nowadays I use <span class=”tt”> and a CSS style like .tt { font-family: monospace; } I wanted to […]

DTP With Free Software?

31. Juli 2015 in Multimedia, Technology.

In case anyone is wondering how to produce documents with complex structure, multiple pages and professional quality using free software, the answer is of course: with LaTeX. Consider the alternatives: Office (Libre, Open, the KDE stuff) are a nuisance when it comes to properly customized sectioning, and for larger documents or 100% precise positioning they […]

PHP HTTPS Streams: Explicitly Using A CA For Verification

20. Juli 2015 in Programming, Technology.

When I tried setting my Owncloud Calendar’s ICS export URL (which uses HTTPS) as a calendar import URL in Dolibarr (currently installed are Owncloud 8.0 and Dolibarr from the version 3.6.2-3 Debian package), Dolibarr gave me these errors (taken from the error.log of the webserver, with some additional formatting): PHP Warning: file(): SSL operation failed […]