Author:RTyl
10 Exciting Web and Internet Developments from the Last Decade
By way of having a little time to spare (very rare these days), here’s what a popular AI engine had to say about the state of the internet and some of the advances made over the past ten years. Make of it what you will; a lot of it is quite obvious, but nevertheless it …
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Bootstrap 3 and 4 comparison
As you’re probably aware the Bootstrap Framework has recently undergone a major overhaul. Heres a quick comparison of the new and deprecated features – Another ‘aide-memoire’! Thinking of Migrating your bootstrap site from v3 to v4? This post is just a reference point to highlight the changes between the newly released v4.0.0 (August 2017) and …
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Adding Photos to Instagram from a PC
Instagram Photos? Do you need to transfer photos from a digital camera or mobile phone to your Instagram feed? Here’s one method I’ve found which does the job… I hope it is of some use to you reader. My online searches revealed many solutions to the problem of Photograph upload without the use of a …
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Android Studio Java setup using the JAVA_HOME variable
Java Setup in Android Studio I’ve just begun using Android Studio again after a long layoff. After noticing a sharp rise in configuration errors using the old version of the system, and taking the advice of forum posts on the subject, I decided to re-install the Android Studio Application from the recommended source website: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ …
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Database Statistics T-SQL Script
After recently completing a database development project I found the actual database tables in use had gotten out of step with my original (planned) Entity Relationship Model and its associated Data Schema. The reason for the differences in my data tables (from those which I had planned for) was due to the fact that when …
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The amazing em unit
We were discussing the ’em’ unit at work today (and font sizing on a web page in general as a matter of fact) and after a few minutes I realised that my knowledge of EMs and how to set up a consistent (site wide) font sizing scheme using Em’s, REm’s, Pixels or Percentage values (for …
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Microsoft Web Development Technologies – A Refresher
Microsoft Technologies As I’m soon to be making the move to Visual Studio 2013, I thought I would brush up on some of the newer (and not so new) Microsoft stable of products and web development methods. I assembled the list below from many online sources, not least the horses mouth itself Microsoft.com. I hope …
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Copy and Rename of C# .NET Visual Studio projects
I had to rename a Visual Studio Project recently. This wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be. After a first failed attempt I decided to hit the usual favourite forums. (I had done a project rename successfully years ago but had long since forgotten what I did on that occasion)… so studying a …
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Update from Drupal to WordPress CMS
From Drupal to WordPress I’ve just updated this website from the ‘Drupal’ Content Management System (Version 6.0) to the latest ‘WordPress’ Engine, Version 3.51. I did this by using the excellent post on the subject found on the socialcmsbuzz.com website. So, many thanks to ‘Lincoln’ for a very informative article which made the upgrade very …
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Android SDK Error: Unable to resolve target ‘android-X’ + a lookup table
I’m just dabbling with developing mobile phone applications (in this case ‘Android’) using the ‘Eclipse’ development environment (http://www.eclipse.org/platform).
On loading new sample projects I’m getting Software Development Kit errors quite often. So, I have provided below (for myself, and anyone who is having similar problems) the relevant platform versions to install, based on the error received:
For Example, you are presented with the error:
“Android SDK Error: Unable to resolve target ‘android-10′”