If you read my previous post, in which I 

, then you’ll need ways of filling it with books. This list doesn’t include the obvious, because, well, they’re obvious. This will try and help you find other sources of books. Or covert other reading material to Kindle book format.

There are many ways to do this and probably depends on the type of books that you want to read. I have a need for programming books at the moment, so most of mine start in the form of Web Pages and PDFs. Luckily, there are ways in which you can get readable versions of these onto your Kindle.

There are two ways to get files onto the Kindle, you can either download them via the Store over the WiFi, or you can copy them across the same way you did the updates. Link up to the PC via USB, and drag and drop into the Documents Folder. It really is that simple. You might want to check what 

Get all the kindle books

A Kindle is a marvellous piece of tech, something that only now am I getting into. Admittedly, very late in the game.

But you don’t need to go out and spend lots of money on something new. You can pick up a 7-8-year-old one in very good condition for about £30 – £50 on eBay or similar websites.

OK, a little background information. I love reading. I don’t do it as much as I should, or would like, but I find it relaxing and hopefully provides with me some sort of self-improvement.

This year, I set myself the challenge to read as many books as I can. Starting towards the end of last year I managed to get a few books in, but have set myself the goal of one book every month as a reasonable target.

Why you should dig out your old Kindle

I can’t be the only one who forgets what naming convention I should be using between different languages. Especially as there are variations between each one.

So, just so that I could see how many I could cover, I thought it would be a great idea to make a list here, with a brief description of each type, and any varying names that come with them. Hopefully, writing them down and looking into each one myself would help it stick.

This isn’t a conclusive list. Not yet, at least. I’m not covering every obscure one. For now, it’s just a brief introduction to some of the most widely used naming conventions and some of the ones that I use on a regular basis.

Naming conventions aren’t just used to name variables in programming languages either, they can be used in file names, folders and even company names. Like 

A brief list of programming naming conventions

 be easy, but sometimes, it can get stuck in use, or stubborn.

 from my machine as it was no longer something that I was using, and one of my services refused to be removed.

The reason for this was that I was starting to run everything from portable installations instead, but I digress.

I ran into a problem while uninstalling XAMP, as I had seemingly removed all remnants of XAMP, yet MySQL seemed to remain.

Bringing up the Task Manager and viewing the services tab, I could see that the one I wanted to remove name was 

Removing unwanted Windows Service

Sometimes, after updating or installing Package Control in Sublime, the install option seems to be missing.

Make sure it is not listed under ignored packages within your User Settings.

Fix missing Package Control install in sublime

Recently I had an issue where the telephone number simply did not appear on a website we had developed. The “Call us” text appeared fine, but the number itself didn’t.

This strange phenomenon was occurring on the strange world of iOS. Windows and Android seemed to resistant to this issue. Even Mac’s desktop version seemed fine. Just iPhones and iPads.

Now the text itself was nothing strange. Just a simple <p> tag with a <span> to add some styling, which included some padding, a background and font size and colour. The rest of the styling appeared, even for the telephone number. The box appeared with padding and appeared the correct size. But the essential part, the text, remained elusive.

Turns out that as part of the iOS operating system, it turns telephone numbers into links so that you can click on them and call them. Because the main part of the style sheet turned links the same colour as my background, it was causing the text to change colour.

So if you are having issues with text not appearing on iOS devices, you need to add styling to your <a> tags and make sure they override any inherited styling you have.

Fix websites missing telephone numbers on iOS

Recently had a problem with uploading a new php file to a server, and it turned out that Notepad++ was only adding LF to the end of each line, and not CRLF.

 has a quick and easy way of fixing all your problems.

Notepad++ CRLF instead of LF

Admittedly, this probably doesn’t come up a lot for people, but recently I have been creating a project management system for someone and am trying to make it as user-friendly as possible using all my known tricks.

I want to use an Include function for PHP when a page loads, but this page doesn’t include functions because it's also called by 

. So I simply just want to call this page and display the output.


The only problem is that I send it $_GET variables via the URL when I call it using jQuery. If I try the code below, it doesn’t work, because it is actually looking for a file with the exact name, and not clever enough to work out they are extra variables I am sending it.

Using $_GET with php Include() function

Recently I needed to find out the element index of a List element when clicked.

I managed to come up with the code that enabled me to do that using 

First, you need to set up your HTML code with an id of ‘bourne’. You don’t have to use bourne, use whatever you like.

You can see above that I have created an 

Get a <li> elements index value on click with jQuery

A website that I recently found very useful was the 

It basically sets up a test area for you to try out simple bits of code, saving you the time or creating a test area.

It also has the nice feature of being able to set up as different versions of HTML, and also include different versions of Jquery, saving you the time of setting up a head section of a page, uploading to a server, or inserting the include scripts for the javascript.

My programming musings that nobody else reads

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