Oliver Jobson

Author: Oliver Jobson

  • Pure360 salesforce integration

    I haven’t blogged much recently but I thought I’d try and collect some information for other users in order to try and start a discussion.. as a salesforce admin I have been looking in recent months to integrate our email marketing platform (currently Pure360, but I’m open to better ideas) with

  • OS X Mavericks & Vodafone Mobile Connect k3565 rev. 2

    After updating my mac to mavericks I had an issue with my Vodafone mobile connect K3565 (rev.2) usb dongle not working. It wasn’t straight forward to get it up and running either, so I thought I’d share. I ran the uninstaller and installed the latest version of the software which *should* support the K3565 –…

  • Easily convert MKV to MP4 (or M4V) for Apple TV

    I have posted about this before here but I have recently found a better way to do this involving a little mac application called ‘subler’. It doesn’t convert the mkv, but just converts non-standard audio (DTS/AC-3 etc) and then recombines (muxes) the original video with the converted audio and places it in an m4v (or…

  • Building a Wake On LAN REST service in PHP to remotely start machines on your network.

    Building a Wake On LAN REST service in PHP to remotely start machines on your network.

    Newer update: a much better script over at GitHub can be used on a local web server, such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses a local file as simple storage so that you can add a list of local machines. Then, when you run the script, you can just select the machine you want to…

  • Contact Form Spam

    Not seen that before: This morning I received some spam through a web page. However, this was contact form spam that was promoting software to spam contact forms. ffs… I suppose at least I’m convinced the product works, unlike most of the contact form spam I receive. Not sure I’ll be following it up though.

  • Mobile Friendly Sites = User Unfriendly?

    Many agencies love mobile ‘friendly’ sites because it’s another item to bill a client for. Personally, I can’t stand mobile versions of websites. Very few are done well and consumers don’t buy modern smartphones (with fully capable browsers) just to be redirected to a crippled, impotent, information-shy version of the web.

  • Muxing MKV to MP4 file container without converting the video (for Apple / Samsung TV)

    I was trying to find a way to easily get MKV’s on to my TV, either by converting them to MP4/M4v and putting them in iTunes and out via the Apple TV or by streaming them directly to my Samsung TV. I did find a pretty good solution to this… but I recently wrote a…

  • Mod Rewrite – Redirect a request URI from subfolder to a higher folder on the webserver

    I googled this for ages but I could not find the answer – all the posts I found were about how to just re-write how urls were displayed, because you would usually use the redirect command in .htaccess in order to redirect the browser request to a different resource on the server. You wouldn’t usually…

  • Configuring SSL in MAMP 2.0.5 (the free version)

    I’ve been trying to configure my MAMP installation (NOT the paid version) to accept SSL for a recent project that I am working on. A lot of MAMP SSL tutorials are out dated and do not work for MAMP v2+ (2.0.5) and some just don’t seem to work so I had to do a lot…