Joanna Walker

SSH Broken Pipe When Running in VMWare Workstation

Another note to self post... since this bit me more than once. ssh USER@SERVER ... packet_write_wait: Connection to IP_ADDRESS port 22: Broken pipe Most of the answers point to the ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval but if you are running the command from inside VMWare Workstation (broken for me

SailsJS 0.9.8 and Bootstrap 3.0.3 LESS

While trying to setup a starter project I hit a bit of a snag. Turns out the latest less files don’t want to play nice with the grunt-contrib-less (0.5.2) that comes with SailsJS (0.9.8). parse error: failed at &:extend(.clearfix all); Since the required

Wordpress Admin - Insufficient Permissions

Run into a strange issue today. Was setting up a new blog using the cpanel worpress add-on and everything was fine until I tried to login as admin into the backed. Sure enough the details were accepted, but instead of the dashboard I was greeted with this message: You do

Quick fix for the Social Counter Widget plugin

I’ve been doing some charity work recently and as they will have a social presence the blog was in need of some social media buttons. I thought the Social Counter Widget plugin looked quite nice (after the slightly prettier Social Impact Widget decided to just error when I did

Wordpress update permission issues

WordPress can often be such a pain to deal with… Recently I was trying to get an installation updated as well as some of the plugins. What should have been a straightforward task, turned out to be several hours of messing around with permissions and trying to figure out why

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