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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 17:15, 18 February 2012 Make keys repeat properly in Lion (hist) [342 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Default behavior in Lion is, when a key is pressed repeatedly a shortcut menu will pop up allowing for selection of special accented characters (similar to android virtual keyboa…')
- 17:12, 18 February 2012 ITerm Home and End keys (hist) [437 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'iTerm can map key combinations to escape sequences, which can allow keyboards to use alt-left/alt-right for prev/next word, and alt-up/alt-down for home/end <source lang="dos">a…')
- 22:29, 27 October 2011 XSLT 2.0 date formatting (hist) [934 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'example: '''Basic rules:''' * F = day of week * D = day of month * M = month * Y = year * Nn = sentence case * 1 = digit placeholder * o = order * *-x = size (output depends on …')
- 19:54, 18 September 2011 Git default branch (hist) [185 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To set git to always push/pull to/from a specific branch/remote, add this to .git/config: <source lang="bash"> [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master </…')
- 19:32, 16 August 2011 Chrome only shows aw snap page (hist) [151 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'If you can't get Chrome to start without showing "Aw Snap" for every page, try adding the command line option "--no-sandbox" Category:Windows Tips')
- 21:06, 7 November 2010 Non-Greedy regex in vim (hist) [263 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{| |\{-} |matches 0 or more of the preceding atom, as few as possible |- |\{-n,m} |matches 1 or more of the preceding characters... |- |\{-n,} |matches at lease or more of the pr…')
- 15:33, 28 October 2010 Vim to use forward slash for path separator even on windows (hist) [236 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'On a windows machine, vim will use the native path separator for processes like filename completion. This is not desired during web development. You can tell vim to use the "shel…')
- 21:27, 19 October 2010 Set PNG background with imagemagick (hist) [228 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To set the default background color for a PNG (which helps display 24b PNG files in IE6, to avoid the ugly default gray), you can use ImageMagick: <code>convert source.png -back…')
- 14:19, 18 October 2010 Bash Control Arrow Skip Words (hist) [168 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'append to ~/.inputrc file: "\e[1;5C": forward-word "\e[1;5D": backward-word "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word')
- 22:56, 28 April 2010 Yanking vim commands (hist) [1,112 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'A few tips on using the Vim yank/put buffer from the Vim command line. To explicitly set the default buffer: <tt>:let @@="new buffer value"</tt> Which can then be put in the d…')
- 21:06, 17 April 2010 Altering visibility with CakePHP ACL (hist) [371 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'In order to pass a boolean value from controller to view, in order to dictate the visibility of a particular element in relation to an ARO/ACO: <source lang="php"> $user = $this…')
- 03:11, 11 April 2010 Create transparent png with imagemagick (hist) [1,432 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'When laying out a webpage, I will use either Firefox or Chrome for my initial development, and then test with IE and other browsers for compatibility. During the Firefox/Chrome d…')
- 15:19, 9 April 2010 Create Air apps with command line tools (hist) [2,388 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Basic instructions on how to run an Air application and build an Air installer from command line tools. Also read [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Command…')
- 14:36, 7 April 2010 Mirror site with wget (hist) [296 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Basic site mirroring with <tt>wget</tt>: <code lang="bash"> wget -m -p http://www.site.com/ </code> If basic authentication is necessary: <code lang="bash"> wget -m -p --http-…')
- 17:20, 31 March 2010 Set up git on remote server (hist) [2,051 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'This assumes that gitosis is set up. I will refer to local machine as LOCAL and remote as REMOTE, that LOCAL has full ssh access to REMOTE, and the gitosis directory as $GITOSIS.…')
- 17:36, 26 March 2010 IE CSS shorthand (hist) [274 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '<pre>#myelement { color: #999; /* shows in all browsers */ *color: #999; - notice the * before the property - shows in IE7 and below: _color: #999; /* notice the _ before the …')
- 03:45, 24 February 2010 Convert ext3 to ext4 (hist) [958 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Perform a system update to make sure you have the latest kernel and grub boot loader. <source lang="bash"> $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade </source> Enable the Ext4 …')
- 20:46, 11 February 2010 Sending objects between flash movies with POST (hist) [3,419 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'It is possible to send entire objects between Flex and Flash movies via POST using <tt>ByteArray</tt> and <tt>Base64Encoder</tt>/<tt>Base64Decoder</tt>. Note: The <tt>Base64Enco…')
- 20:52, 27 January 2010 Fix missing Control key (hist) [1,718 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Occasionally a problem shows up where (normally after starting the computer), the Ctrl (control) key doesn't work. <tt>xev</tt> sees an event, but it reads: <geshi>FocusOut even…')
- 03:02, 27 January 2010 Change default Results Per Page in phpMyAdmin (hist) [541 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'You can modify the MaxRows value, which is the page limit when displaying results. This is normally 30, i.e. for more than 30 results the results are split into pages. Edit <tt>…')
- 16:35, 10 January 2010 Fixing hw0 jackd problem (hist) [198 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'If another audio application has taken over hw:0, so that jackd cannot start, you can fix this by restarting alsa: <geshi lang=BASH>sudo /sbin/alsa force-reload</geshi> [[Categ…')
- 16:20, 4 December 2009 Removing dotted border from links (hist) [584 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Dotted borders around active links can detract from a design -- although their usability improvement should not be overlooked, sometimes a designer needs to take control over thi…')
- 17:20, 18 October 2009 Force umount iso (hist) [179 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To force an unmount of an ISOFS (or similar) drive: <geshi lang=BASH>sudo umount -l /media/cdrom0</geshi> (or similar path to the drive in question) Category:Linux Tips')
- 22:03, 8 October 2009 Sed insert after last match (hist) [791 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To insert a line before the first match using sed: <geshi lang=BASH>sed -n -e '{ /RE/,$ { /RE/ !{ 0,/./ i\ new line here } } }' file</geshi> The first match…')
- 21:49, 8 October 2009 Sed insert before first match (hist) [560 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To insert a line before the first match using sed: <geshi lang=BASH>sed -i -e '0,/RE/ { /RE/i\ new line here }' file</geshi> Category:Linux Tips')
- 18:42, 7 October 2009 Vim close preview window after omnifunc selection (hist) [684 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Some omnifunc matches can show extended information in a scratch Preview window. This is especially useful after matching functions to show the function definition and parameters…')
- 01:19, 7 October 2009 Vim clear quickfix list (hist) [205 bytes] DavidWoods (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'You can clear the QuickFix list in vim with: <geshi lang=vim>:call setqflist([])</geshi> Category:Linux Tips Category:Web Development Tips Category:Misc Tips')
