Listening to Under the Radar: 12 https://overcast.fm/+Fgm3X4nfc. Represent yourself as your client does basically.
Sander van Dragt's Notes
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I'm really impressed with the @WordPress theme customisation UI from within the product.
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Trusting the government
The UK government had setup the Independent Commision on Freedom of Information with an eye to review the Freedom Of Information Act:
Last year, the government set up a commission to review the law, composed mostly of people who had expressed scepticism or concern about the scope of the FOIA, and with a clear brief to add restrictions to its workings.
Not my definition of independent.
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<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/character-countdown/">Character Countdown</a> is a handy WordPress plugin if you want to post status updates from your site to Twitter.
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Boxcryptor 2 on OSX can open classic folders but not on Windows so I'm migrating to new encrypted folder. <a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="https://support.boxcryptor.com/display/BCWINEN/Upgrade+from+Boxcryptor+Classic">[https://support.boxcryptor.com/display/BCWINEN/Upgrade+from+Boxcryptor+Classic</a><p>#st...](https://support.boxcryptor.com/display/BCWINEN/Upgrade+from+Boxcryptor+Classic</a><p>) </p>
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Working on my Ruby on Rails skills using the best free resource I found so far: <a href="https://www.railstutorial.org/">[https://www.railstutorial.org/</a><p>](https://www.railstutorial.org/</a><p>) </p>
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Share iOS audio files to Huffduffer using Workflow.is (<a href="http://prettygoodhat.com/2015-02-15-My\_HFDF\_workflow.html">[http://prettygoodhat.com/2015-02-15-My\_HFDF\_workflow.html</a>)<p>](http://prettygoodhat.com/2015-02-15-My_HFDF_workflow.html</a>)<p>) </p>
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Alternative Football Manager
Jack Arnott writes for Eurogamer in the Football Manager 2016 review:
Anything beyond that, though, and, once again, I'm stumped. It won't tell you whether you've lost because you were closing down too much, or too little. Or because your defensive line was too high, or too low. Would Prozone analysis have helped me tame those pesky Shrews? Not without a hireable in-game performance analyst. This is no panacea for those, like me, who crave some FM feedback.
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Despite a couple of neat additions, Football Manager 2016 is an iterative release that's sadly short on big new ideas.
None of this directly applies to this review or the quality of the game but is a bit more generalist rambling on my part -- I feel SI is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's difficult to make a game that is seen as holding realism above all other values and then see it being criticsed for lack of feedback.
The hypothetical version that sorts this out would be surely used by all real world managers as this gives them the winning formula for winning their own leagues! The marketing of FM being used by real world managers only strangthens this conflicted ideal in my mind.
With all features already in the game the developer might be making enourmous investments now to advance the simulation just that little bit, unable to make great leaps as there is no great leap to make.
I used to think that making Football Manager light was the solution to create a more playable game but as people expect "all of the realism with less options" I don't think that is ever going to work either.
As long as it keeps selling though they would be silly to overhaul it, as it would alienate the existing fanbase.
I'm hoping there will sometime be an approximation of the FM lineage but with fun and passion as the core values under a different name, perhaps with fantasy clubs and players, silly things happening, no numbers and passion for the athmosphere of football.
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Removing index.php from SilverStripe sites
If your website has mod_rewrite enabled but the URL's generated by SilverStripe still contain 'index.php' then SilverStripe is unable to detect mod_rewrite. Adding the following line to
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PDO / Sybase wouldn't let me connect to SQL Server until the password was under 30 characters long. That's a new one.