Docker Desktop is an extremely useful way of getting started with Docker, but the Windows client uses WSL and assumes C: has an infinite amount of space. Fortunately it’s not too difficult to change where it stores its stuff.
Category: development
I was setting up a development environment for making WordPress plugins. I’m using a docker image to run WordPress, and I wanted the plugin files to be easily editable on the host machine. I’m lazy, and I don’t want any kind of “upload” or “copy into WordPress” step to be necessary. I want to “Save” in my editor and refresh the browser.
This was a bit more complicated to set up than I expected, here’s the steps I used:
x86 programs run in Windows Vista/7/8 might get detected as needing UAC permissions. If they don’t actually need them, it’s possible to override the detection so it stop asking.
The samples in the WiX tutorial contain many Id='YOURGUID-86C7-4D14-AEC0-86416A69ABDE' placeholders that need to be replaced with your own GUIDs before they can be used. It’s tedious to do this manually a dozen times for each file, so I automated it in Emacs with the lisp below:
JQueryUI Autocomplete doesn’t provide much in the way to style by default, but it’s easy to add tags to style the terms and completions seperately.
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The Opensearch Suggestions spec defines a JSON format that’s incompatible with JQueryUI’s autocomplete. Here’s a way to make it work.
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