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Song Transpose App for Windows

Use Transpose to transpose and format song files written in plain text format with an editor such as Notepad. You can create HTML or RTF (Word) format files with options for font size, single or double columns, chord names in bold print, and extra line space between lines. It is assumed that lines of chord names are above lines of lyrics. E.g., 
|D      Bm     |Em      A#7  A7 | 
At last,            my love has
Here’s the website with more info and download. Song Transpose

WordPress Child Themes

To avoid editing theme files, you can create a child theme very easily. Here’s an example using the Weaver Xtreme theme. Create wp-content/themes/weaver-xtreme-child/ and files style.css and functions.php.

1) wp-content/themes/weaver-xtreme-child/style.css
2) wp-content/themes/weaver-xtreme-child/functions.php

Start style.css with the following header modified to match your situation.

/*
 Theme Name: Weaver Xtreme Child
 Theme URI: http://fordwebtech.com/blog/wp-content/themes/weaver-xtreme-child/
 Description: Weaver Xtreme Child Theme
 Author: Phil Ford
 Author URI: http://fordwebtech.com/blog
 Template: weaver-xtreme
 Version: 1.0.0
 License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain: weaver-xtreme-child
 */

Add custom css and php functions to the two files. Finally, activate the new Weaver Xtreme child theme which will now show up in the main dashboard theme picker.

 

Max Buttons for WordPress

Here’s a nice button for WordPress using the Max Button plugin…

Max Button

[maxbutt*n name="MaxButton"]

Use the “MaxButtons” menu item in the dashboard to access the control panel. Define buttons with lots of options including the link URL. Give it a name (e.g., “MaxButton” above) and place it in posts or pages with the short code. The text “maxbutt*n” is really maxbutton, but changed so as not to trigger the short code in this post.

Installing Apache and PHP

Download Apache from ApacheLounge

http://www.apachelounge.com/download/
httpd-2.2.24-win32.zip
Install in C:/Apache/
Select CGI mode during install

Apache running PHP as CGI (vs module)
httpd.conf

<Directory “c:/php”>
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
ScriptAlias /php/ “c:/php/”
Action application/x-httpd-php “/php/php-cgi.exe”

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.htm

http://php.net/downloads.php

PHP 5.3.26
http://windows.php.net/download/#php-5.3
VC9 x86 Non Thread Safe (for IIS) – “Installer”
php-5.3.26-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.msi
VC9 x86 Thread Safe (for Apache as CGI)
php-5.3.26-Win32-VC9-x86.msi
Install in C:/PHP/

PHP.INI

[Zend]
zend_extension=”c:\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll”
xdebug.remote_enable = on
[xdebug]
zend_extension=”c:\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll”
xdebug.remote_enable=On
xdebug.profiler_enable=0ff

include_path = “.;c:/inet/htdocs/Wwb/aShare”

http://xdebug.org/download.php

XDebug 2.1.1 PHP 5.3 VC9 TS (32 bit) (for Apache)
XDebug 2.1.1 PHP 5.3 VC9 (32 bit) (for IIS)

C# Programming Notes

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

View the UI Form Designer

View, Solution Explorer
Right-click on Form class (“Form1.cs”)
Select “View Designer”

If error prevents display, close designer window with error message,
reopen (see above)

Add new class

Project, Add Class

Add general purpose classes from other projects

File, Add, New Project (or Existing Project) e.g., \C#l\Utility1

Add various cs files to that project, one for each class
e.g., Reg.cs, CString.cs, Trial.cs

Solution Explorer

References, Right click, “Add Reference”
Solutions, Project, select the new project (.csproj)

pass by reference

add “ref” to both caller and method
mymethod(ref string istr) { …
x.mymethod(ref mystr);

Make classes public unless they’re only support for other classes in assembly (“internal”)

Override and virtual

mark methods to override as “virtual” and subclassed methods “override”