January | 2018 | Chuck Grimmett

Changing the CSV Delimiter and Enclosure Characters on a Mac

January 30, 2018Chuck Grimmett

TIL that you can’t change the CSV delimiter or enclosure characters on Excel for Mac or Apple Numbers. You have to use Open Office.

Building JSON for WPComplete in Excel with Concatenate

January 29, 2018Chuck Grimmett

TIL how to build JSON strings in Excel with concatenate.

macOS Excel Fill Down Keyboard Shortcut

January 29, 2018Chuck Grimmett

I never remember the keyboard shortcut for Fill Down in Excel on macOS, so I’m posting it here where I’ll have it. Control + D.

Three More Book Notes

January 26, 2018Chuck Grimmett

I’m catching up on my book notes. Today I posted three more: Show Your Work, Shoe Dog, and E-Myth Revisited.

I’m catching up on my book notes. There are a lot of books I read this past year that I neglected to post notes for, so I’m getting caught up on that. I posted five new books to my Book Notes section today: Kindred, Stories of Your Life and Others, A Burglar’s Guide to the City, Boon Island, and The Story of Sushi.

How to Back Up Your Laravel Homestead Databases

January 24, 2018Chuck Grimmett

Today I upgraded from Homestead 4.0.0 to 5.0.1 so I could test my sites in PHP 7. That was a major upgrade and a number of things changed, so I decided that I needed to back up my databases before I did the upgrade. I’d only ever dumped specific databases before, but TIL how to dump them all at once. Here is how to do that in Laravel Homestead.

Free Charting Tools for Your Next Article

January 22, 2018Chuck Grimmett

A Praxis participant emailed me last week asking for recommendations on free embeddable charting tools for an article he is writing. I thought that the information would be useful for everyone, so I wrote an article with examples!

Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll

January 21, 2018Chuck Grimmett

Earlier this week I did a major revamp of cagrimmett.com. It started with redesigning my page templates to include a sidebar, then it morphed into making a long-standing goal of mine reality: Reviving the posts from my old 2008-2012 WordPress blog and getting them into Jekyll while preserving old links. Here’s how I did it.