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Do you get frustrated having to go to the AFL app or the TV guide to work out when the footy is on? Every year are you manually entering footy games in to your phone calendar?

Why not do it automatically?

The Apple App Store turned 15 this week, and I just happened to come across some screenshots of when an app I built was featured in the Australian store.

So I used to use Grav on my website a handful of years ago, but I gave it up because I percieved it to be “too slow”. To be honest, that was me just not really understanding how it works. So, when I gave it up I went back to MovableType (yeah–2005 called!).

My MovableType installation is currently running in my home lab, on Windows Server behind IIS, authenticating against my Active Directory and writing to my clustered Microsoft SQL Server database.

Why? Because I could dammit.

But, MovableType is actually a bit shit, and hasn’t really kept up with modern expectations.

UTM is a frontend for QEMU that works on Mac and iOS.

I’ve been working to get Snow Leopard running in UTM (by extension, it would probably also work in QEMU, too). Here’s how to do it.

Over the past few months I’ve been working to start self-hosting more of my stuff at home. I’ve got myself going with kind of a mini-home lab–more about that in another post.

Anyway, I’ve finally changed CMS, changed web server platform and this site is officially hosted by a computer in my cupboa...

For the past hour or so I have been troubleshooting a problem with a Visual Basic script in Excel. It iterates through PivotItems in a PivotTable:

Set p_table = ActiveSheet.PivotTables("Audit")
Set p_items = p_table.PivotFields("Primary Location").PivotItems

For Each p_item In p_items
    Debug.Print p_item.Name
Next p_item

The for-loop keeps returning items that are no longer in the source data, and I couldn’t work out why. Turns out, there’s an option in PivotTable Options: Retain items deleted from the data source.

The Smarty pagination system I demoed previously worked great, but it didn’t cache results. But, I’ve made it better.

Some time ago I scoured the internet looking for a way to provide pagination in a Main Index template in Movable Type.

Using Smarty templating, there is an even easier way.

What do I want to accomplish?

• I want to use AddressFinder to auto-fill form fields for an application that requires accuracy of address.
• AddressFinger provides the national lot identifier and lot/plan number which we can use to integrate with our computer-aided dispatch system to associate records with locations.