I haven’t read about this in most reviews of the Nikon D810. It’s a small, but very welcome addition to customize your camera settings. You can now limit the selection of AF area modes. I for example never use neither 3D-tracking nor Auto-area AF. Now I can disable them in the menu a11 Limit AF-area …
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Quick installation guide to setup your Google Calendar in Thunderbird 31.2 with the Lightning Calendar Addon 3.3.1. You don’t even need to install the ‘Provider for Google Calendar’: Create a new calendar by right clicking on the calendar pane, then select ‘On the Network’ Select ‘CalDav’ as you remote calendar format and put the following …
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I love my D800, but I was always annoyed, that I could not turn on or off the ISO-AUTO setting with one hand. But after playing around with my camera settings I found the following solution: First create an new entry in your MY MENU and make sure it’s the first item at the top. …
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Took my quite a while to find this, because it’s hardly mentioned anywhere except as a note on the Mozilla Developer Network: When you are using a flexbox layout in multi-line mode (e.g. the ‘flex-wrap’ property is set to wrap), you can force flex items to start on a new line by setting the ‘page-break-before’ …
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For work I needed a way to show boxplots (see diagram to the right) using the jqPlot library. All I had to do was override the draw() method of OHLCRenderer (see code below). Update 13.10.2017: Upon request I created a working demo of the BoxplotRenderer using some helper classes to setup jqPlot charts from another …
Have you ever wondered if it is possible to bind an unknown amount of variables in a SQL WHERE IN clause, e.g.: SELECT id, text FROM myTable WHERE id IN (:myId1, :myId2, myId3, …) Use a OCI collection object and wonder no more: $keyList = array(100, 250, 350); $stmt = oci_parse($cnn, “SELECT id, text FROM …
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For a long time my Nikon lens 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II has been upstaged by the 600mm f/4G ED VR when photographing birds. But after a stupid tumble on my part which not only disabled its bigger 600mm sister, but also ripped some parts out of my camera D800 and completely destroyed the GPS, …
I came across the nice chart library c3.js, which is based on d3.js. In order to load it via an AMD require call with dojo, you also need to set the main property in the dojoConfig, e.g.: dojoConfig = { packages: [ { name: ‘d3’, location: ‘../../../d3’, main: ‘d3’ } { name: ‘c3’, location: ‘../../../c3’, …
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Quip tip: When creating illustrations with LibreOffice Draw I found the format “Star View Metafile (SVM)” to be the best choice for re-import in LibreOffice Writer.
If you are using AMD or RequireJS for your JavaScripts and you would also like to use the Google Maps JavaScript API you have a problem. You can’t just require in the script file and then access the google.maps object from within your script, e.g.: require([‘http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?client=YOUR_CLIENT_ID’], function() { var myMap = new google.maps.Map(mapDiv, mapOptions); } …
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