Brutal. I spent probably 3 hours trying to figure this out so I thought I should spend about 10 minutes and write this quick blog post for anyone else who might hit this. I was testing out Prestashop (looking good so far!) and the aim was to move a new shopify account over to Prestashop to see how it goes.…
Category: Technology
GETTING A QUASAR BUILD RUNNING AS APP ON UBUNTU TOUCH
Here is my journey to see if I can make a basic Quasar app work on Ubuntu Touch. I should preface that I have never built an Ubuntu Touch app and I’m not even done my Quasar course but there are enough people interested in this so I want to stop everything and try… Quick Overview of Ubuntu Touch Apps…
Getting Started With Quasar and VueJS on Ubuntu
After watching this recommended tutorial I decided to try out this Quasar thing. My true hope is that we can eventually add Ubuntu Touch as one of the buildable outputs at the end of app creation as it apparently might not be that hard with Cordova… but I digress… I’m not an experienced developer yet so getting started with all…
Dismissing Firefox popups using Selenium and Python
In my new journey to figure out how to automate stuff in my life, one of the time-sucking adventures was to try to stop browser popups such as geolocation and notifications. I just wanted to click ‘ok’ or ‘dismiss’ and move on since this was my ‘bot’ instance of the browser. The issue with these browser-based pop ups is that…
HOW TO CLICK AN ITEM IN A SUBMENU (UL) LIST USING PYTHON, SELENIUM
I spent literally 3 days trying to simply click a logout link with Selenium. I searched every stackoverflow post I could find until I found this one. I had tried pretty much everything I could to try to click the logout link which was the fifth item down in the move-over list. I tried find_element_by_xpath, find_element_by_id, find this, find that,…
OPENING A NEW TAB WITH SELENIUM + PYTHON + FIREFOX + UBUNTU
So this was super duper hard and I believe the reason why is because technically the browser settings and the user choices impact whether or not a clicked link opens in a fresh new tab or a fresh new window. Keep that in mind in case you have other headaches. It may be impossible (so I’ve read online) to perfectly…
Overcoming Painful Setup for Selenium with Python on Ubuntu
EDIT 191118I realized that I need to execute the script below every time my computer reboots so my current workflow is to leave the command commented out in script and then run it before I begin. You can probably run it with the script too? This one: export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/path/to/browser_drivers_for_automation I had the following continual painfull errors: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘my_folder_name’ executable…
How to Do Some Code Changes in Gitlab
I’m not a developer but was encouraged to try a one character change to some software. I felt that I couldn’t break too much so I did my first tiny change. Literally one character text edit. However, it was a bit scary so I’m just posting this to show the basic workflow. This assumes you already have a gitlab account…
THE NEED FOR A NEW QR CODE WORLD – OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT…
The Background – The Feelings The background to this one is that I was really amazed by the technology and functionality of QR codes. QR codes brought the convenience of UPC retail bar codes to the average person without the crazy costs associated. So, even from a business perspective you could have your own scanning system if you wanted. On…
CONVERT HARVESTED BULK EMAILS INTO USABLE SPREADSHEET IN A FEW STEPS
Did someone send you a bulk email and foolishly leave all the recipients exposed? Do you want to grab those recipients and use for your own great purposes? Good news, it’s not so hard to do! Here’s what you’ll need: A text editor (gedit on ubuntu) Spreadsheet software (Libre Office is the one I’ll use here since it’s both free…