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Blender and Mixamo: Repeating Animations Like Walk Cycles in Two Steps!

TL;DR: Importing animations, especially for characters can get tricky but it’s getting easier. I’ve seen a lot of tutorials about Blender and Mixamo but this is the best so far imo. In two steps you can import any Mixamo animation and extend it to loop properly. Just follow this tutorial by Balu Prime! This was the easiest, pain free way to import Mixamo animations into Blender. Mixamo repeat…

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Tapo or Kasa Webcam Comparison - It Came Down to Which One Uses ONVIF

TL;DR: Though both are owned by TP-LINK, between the two webcams I’d suggest the Tapo because Kasa’s cams are closed to third-party monitoring tools, which was not a very bright decision.  Unlike the Tapo, which was super easy to setup and plug into iSpy, you can only access the Kasa camera footage and controls through an Android or iPhone app, you can’t pipe its feed into whatever system you…

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Living Room Floods Animation - Buy this HD Video Clip for your Restoration Company!

Living Room Floods Animation – Buy this HD Video Clip for your Restoration Company! If you’re a disaster restoration company looking for some affordable video footage, you can use this animation of the living room flooding for your TV or web commercials and other presentations. Get this video clip as-is without the watermark and titles, of course, for only $75.  Price is as of 1/1/2024 and is…

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Well, Hello Microsoft .NET!

Well, Hello Microsoft .NET!

Microsoft has come a long way with .NET, ASP.NET and C-Sharp, to say nothing of Azure Dev Ops and all its free and powerful tools they’ve made available. Gone are the days of the “not invented here” mentality and here to stay is Microsoft’s renewed commitment to not just .NET developers, but to the software community in general. No longer do I feel Microsoft looks at my PHP/Python/MySQL/MongoDB…

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Rendering Twig templates from Symfony Repository without Using Dependency Injection (DIC)

Rendering Twig templates from Symfony Repository without Using Dependency Injection (DIC)

Sometimes it’s useful to access Twig templates from a Symfony repository, one could argue that this goes against a repository’s role, but if you think of Twig template files or Twig strings perhaps grabbed from a database as data, then this coincides nicely with the function of a repo.

These arguments aside, whatever your situation, if you need to render Twig from a Symfony repository, you do NOT…

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Issues with Mautic 2.12 Importing Contacts

The latest Mautic release update to 2.12 went seamlessly.  Like any system, however, you discover something that didn’t seem to cause a problem before.  This issue isn’t a bug, it’s just one of those snags you don’t catch until you get down to the level of testing you didn’t reach before.  The “Import Contacts” tool is one of those times when I discovered that if you select “Import in Background”…

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Atlas Shrugs: Joe Ricketts

Atlas Shrugs: Joe Ricketts

A private citizen, Joe Ricketts, became the latest “greedy capitalist” to come along and fire a bunch of employees.  At least that’s the way this story was spun from yesterday’s NPRreport I heard on the radio.  (Incidentally, while I just backlinked to our socialist comrades who some how get public funding despite their anti-American and anti-constitution leftist politics, it’s so funny how much…

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What happened to the Wordpress Fast Secure Contact Form plug-in?!

What happened to the WordPress Fast Secure Contact Form plug-in?!

Mike Challis, the long-standing original author of the “Fast Secure Contact Form” plug-in posted an article hereabout what suddenly happened to the plug-in he made available for WordPress users for so long.  Shame, because this was a great, stable plug-in and it always seemed to work no matter what kind of theme you used.  I just noticed it was removed so I will be taking the steps of removing it…

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Mautic fix for forms hanging on "Please wait..." happens when installed in subdirectory

Mautic fix for forms hanging on “Please wait…” happens when installed in subdirectory

Since 2.8.2, a bunch of Mautic forms were hanging on “Please wait…”, even though the form data was going through, this is not a good customer experience.  Here is the fix for it on Git Hub from the Mautic team.  It turns out, this issue only happened for Mautic instances running in a sub-directory.

I think it’s usually best to put Mautic on a site within a sub-directory, perhaps in “/marketing”…

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Karma has a way: short-sighted business gains in America lose much bigger later with H1-B

A quick search online for “Stephen Miller” comes up with results that are 90% skewering him and 10% favorable.  He must be doing something right, then.

Stephen Miller explains Trump administration’s stance on illegal immigration, and it is refreshing to hear high-level people in DC who are shaping future national policy talk like this.  After watching this video of how, among other things, the H1…

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Updating to Mautic 2.9.1 mild issues resolved

Updating to Mautic 2.9.1 mild issues resolved

As a PHP web developer with over 13 years experience, I can say that Mautic is the best of all the free marketing automation platforms, by far.  Sugar CRM is good, for what it does, but that’s a CRM, not an MA (Marketing Automation).  Still, when you are updating Mautic, like you would WordPress, be sure to always back up your files and database! Now, I will chronicle my latest experience…

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Amazon Alexa forces subscribers who choose Fox News headlines to listen to NPR news afterwards

Amazon Alexa forces subscribers who choose Fox News headlines to listen to NPR news afterwards

I like Alexa from Amazon, it has a pretty nice, rich sound as a speaker and it’s neat to ask it things.  Um, her things, I guess.

I know she’s extremely liberal, obviously, Jeff Bezos is a crazy lib, but do they have to shove their liberalism down our throats?  I mean when you say “Hey, Alexa, play headlines!” or, as Alexa calls it “Your news flash” you can select other news providers, I chose…

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Consolidated MD selects Brandager.com for their marketing automation services and API platform

Consolidated MD selects Brandager.com for their marketing automation services and API platform

When it comes to marketing automation, there are a lot of extra new moving parts that get added to your website to achieve advanced functionality like dynamic content tailored to different users, advanced tracking, exit intent pop-ups, pop-up windows that are smart enough not to be intrusive or obnoxious, and much more.  Marketing automationcan get complicated, the wrong settings in a campaign…

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Consolidated MD teams up with Brandager.com to bring marketing automation to medical practices

Consolidated MD teams up with Brandager.com to bring marketing automation to medical practices

Consolidated MD can now help medical practices and doctor groups get more from their website by setting up medical marketing automation systems.  If your practice has a website but  want to promote your over the counter products and services or you think you could be getting more from it or if you are looking to gain an edge on your competition online, then automation — the intuitive delivery of…

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John Stossel to produce new liberty videos!

John Stossel to produce new liberty videos!

We’re so happy you are healthy and back at the cause of advocating liberty, John Stossel! Thank you so much for all you do and all the success in your new endeavor, we’ll be sure to watch and share! #JohnStossel2020

Excited to start my new production operation with these producers. New liberty videos coming soon. pic.twitter.com/1UPniyA6Tt

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) July 14, 2017

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So you're an American and you support the H1B Visa program? Watch it -- karma will get you next!

So you’re an American and you support the H1B Visa program? Watch it — karma will get you next!

Of all people a tech recruiter on LinkedIn recently asked “IT professional”, “Non-IT professionals”, web developers, recruiters, and HR managers what they thought about the H1B Visa Program.

Hmmm.  I should ask him how he feels about cancer or being paid about half of what he’s worth?!  I seldom engage on any social media, but I just couldn’t help but respond:  “It’s disgusting and everyone…

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Let us help you choose the right system, data, and marketing tools for your business

Let us help you choose the right system, data, and marketing tools for your business

When it comes to choosing system, data and marketing tools for your business, start with “the framework approach” but don’t be surprised if you decide a custom system is a better fit for you!  We’re talking CRM (Customer Relationship Management), MA (Marketing Automation), CMS (Content Management System), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), or BIT (Business Intelligence Tools).

Some of the best…