Learning from like minded people who have been through the same struggle you are going through helps to no end as you’re building your company.
Startups in Kitchener/Waterloo
Esse Quam Videri
Esse Quam Videri – to be rather than to seem to be
A journey into Silicon Valley
A great documentary on startup companies in Silicon Valley. The enthusiasm these folks have in the video is electric!
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Reduce PDF size Ubuntu
There are two nice utilities to reduce the file size of PDF documents in Ubuntu: Download the following zip and extract the .sh file shrinkpdf.sh Then issue the following command:…
Add Google Analytics code to WordPress
There are a good number of plugins to add Google Analytics code to WordPress, but I did the following: Edit header.php Paste your tracking code directly after the opening tag…
Block BitTorrent traffic PfSense
A quick and dirty way to block torrents from being downloaded on your network is to create a LAN firewall rule in PfSense. Click Firewall -> Rules -> LAN Ensure that…
The MySQL adapter mysqli is not available – WHM
After deploying a new server and installing WHM the following error was showing when accessing a Joomla site: Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: The MySQL adapter mysqli…
File and folder permissions Linux
You can execute the following commands to modify file/folder permissions and ownership on Linux: Change permissions chmod Change ownership chown Imagine a folder called *Books* on the Desktop to which…
Creating a desktop/application launcher Ubuntu
Start off by executing the following command: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/YOUR-PROGRAM-NAME.desktop Add the following to the file: [Desktop Entry] Version=13.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-ICON.png Name[en_US]=PROGRAM-NAME Exec=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-NAME.sh Name=PROGRAM-NAME Icon=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-ICON.png Change permissions and ownership…









