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Setting up CakePhp for the first time

Make sure login credentials in Database.php are correct

'login' => 'root', 'password' => 'root',

Try this

sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock/var/mysql/mysql.sock

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19320563/database-connection-mysql-is-missing-and-mysql-sock-is-missing

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sizmek secure url

https://secure-ds.serving-sys.com/BurstingScript/EBLoader.js http://demo.mediamind.com/ScottRies/HTML5/Sizmek_Adobe_Edge_Conversion_Guide_-_Polite-Standard_Banners_15_01_15.pdf

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Check current branch in Git

Via...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245570/how-to-get-current-branch-name-in-git

"git branch" should show all the local branches of your repo. The starred branch is your current branch.

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Convert a Word doc to clean HTML

https://word2cleanhtml.com

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Open Safari without restoring tabs

If you’re like me and you’ve come across the annoying situation of having troublesome tabs that are crashing Safari that keep re-opening whenever you re-launch Safar (LEADING YOU INTO A CYCLE OF DOOM) then here’s the solution:

Re-launch Safari via it’s dock icon whilst holding down (and continuing to hold down) the Shift key. This launch the app without restoring anything. 

Voilà!

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Asset file names in Adobe Edge

Don’t ever have an (asset) image as part of your Edge project that contains a special character. 

For instance, $.png gave us issues once it was handed over to the media/distrbutor/whatever company to deploy.

This will have to be replaced in Edge as well as completely removed from published images folder. 

Even when I removed it from the projects “images” folder it still appeared in the “images” folder under the “web” (published) directory ($&*@#!).

Serenity now.