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Now and again, I’ll enable some sort of feature in CRiSP and not be sure either what I pressed or what I enabled.
If you ever find yourself with the big, blinking, square, cursor that overwrites and does not insert text just press Alt-I. → Continue reading “Big Square Blinking Cursor in CRiSP”
If you have ever wanted to use a SWF generated in Captivate in another Flash application, here is a good article on how to get Captivate to talk to a hosting Flash app.→ Continue reading “Captivate to Flash Communication”
or, how to modify your setting such that your content is better protected.
kdawson posted an article on Slashdot about the fact that FaceBook is allowing third party advertisers to use your photos in their ads. The article also includes a link to an article about how to modify your settings so that your photos don’t show up.
Here is how to make the change:
Go to: Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads → Continue reading “FaceBook Allows 3rd Party Advertisers to Use Your Photos Without Your Permission”
Let’s say you have a table and you want to know how many rows have the same e-mail adress.
SELECT count(*), email FROM email_list GROUP BY email HAVING count(*)>1 ORDER BY count(*) DESC;→ Continue reading “Searching for and counting duplicate entries in MySQL”
This assumes that you are creating the repo on your local drive.
First, create the directory in which you’ll store your repo.
Then, use svnadmin to create the repository in that directory:
svnadmin create /path/to/directory/
The typical convention is to set up an initial directory structure as follows:
/trunk
/branches
/tags
To do so, do the following:
mkdir svntemp
cd svntemp
mkdir trunk branches tags
svn import -m ‘Import of initial directory structure’ file:///path/to/repo
Now cd to whatever working directory → Continue reading “Quick HowTo Create a Subversion Repository”
When designing and developing a new website it is tempting to try to do everything before launching it. My recommendation is to launch your new or updated site early and then make regular, incremental updates.
A good website is never finished; you are always making updates/changes/revisions to it. If you build your site on a flexible framework, one with an easy-to-use content management system, then it makes it that much easier to go back on a regular basis → Continue reading “Launch Your New or Updated Website Early and Update it Often”
This online utility will let you convert a set of vcards file into either a .csv, or an LDIF file that youcan use to import into Thunderbird or other mail programs.
http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/→ Continue reading “Converting a .VCF file to .CSV”
Here are a few links to some guides to writing HTMLemail newsletters.
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/
http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide→ Continue reading “Writing HTML E-mail”
Anyone who has used it knows that the default styling for the HTML <sup> tag leaves a lot to be desired. The biggest is that it modifies the line-height of the line on which it it rendered.
Here is some CSS that fixes that behavior:
sup
{
height: 0;
line-height: 1px;
position: relative;
top: -0.6em;
vertical-align: baseline !important;
vertical-align: bottom;
}→ Continue reading “CSS Styling for the HTML Superscript Tag”
If you have ever wanted to recursively search through all of the files in a directory for a specific string, here is the bash command to do it:
find . | xargs grep ‘string’ -sl→ Continue reading “How to search for a string in a group of text files from the Linux command line”