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It’s been awhile.

About 5 years ago, I converted 99% of the site to Hugo static, but didn’t implement because I didn’t find a good search. So, I started saving how-to’s on my computer (again).

Flash forward. Now, after 4 long days of converting to Hugo, I’m up… and I’ve got a lot to share!

Converting a PDF to ePUB format isn’t difficult, but getting quality results seems to be nigh on impossible.

DevelopRx assembled a team of crack engineers (actually just me) to tackle this issue and solve it using readily available open source software (a.k.a. FREE!).

The process described in this article is primarily for text-based PDFs with common headers and footers otherwise known as “books.”

   

Custom Favicon. Put new and improved favicon.ico image into into root > static folder.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript. It includes npm, which is the package manager for JavaScript code ( installs programs).

Git is a software configuration management (SCM) program. This is just a fancy way of saying that it’s a software package that tracks and controls changes in the code.

I initially installed Git because I was playing around with Vagrant (local web development). It’s also a safe way to get the nerdy Bash shell (UNIX-like scripting language) for Windows without going into Cygwin .

Looks like updating Local WordPress version can be a painless. First, fully backup your local WordPress folder. Download the latest version of WordPress. Unzip it. Overwrite the local Wordpress files.

So far, so good.

The planets aligned and I lost three years of emails. I had backups and, as a last resort, surely my host did too, right? Nope.

It’s too late for my emails. Maybe it’s not too late for yours.

Here’s what happened and how you can keep your emails safe…

There was a Kevin Costner movie where he kept on hearing, “Build it and they will come.”

Great for Kevin, not so good for webpages. If you want to be found on the net, you need more… SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Some audio files in M4A format do not play on some devices.

Remuxing reassembles the data packets of the audio stream and that’s exactly how to fix the problem.

I have some video files in MP4 format. I want rip out the audio (.M4a) without re-encoding.

This method uses a command line program and a batch file, but YOU CAN DO IT!