sharing the power of code
sharing the power of code
Problem: You’re on an English keyboard on a Mac, and you need to type letters with accents, like é, è, ñ, ü, ê or other special characters, like ç, å, æ, or œ. Solution: Hold down the vowel key for…
Here’s the latest website I’m releasing onto the world: aboutmydevice.com. I wrote it so that I could explore what Javascript properties, objects, and values exist on the browsers of various mobile devices. I walk into a store, go to a…
The Apple Macbook Pro would turn on, but the screen would not. The screen would stay black. I could tell the computer was on because when I hit the “caps lock” key, the green light on the key would turn…
Make your list of files, with complete paths, call it “imgList.txt”. Put every file on a new line. Write a small awk script with the following 1 line: { printf(“cp %s images/\n”, $0);} Save the script as “copyList.awk” Do the…
Sometimes you need to write html character entities in javascript, but html character entities can’t be used, because they don’t get interpreted by javascript. In javascript, you need to use the equivalent unicode character codes instead. HTML character entity, wrong:…
Log into mysql: (enter password on next prompt) Show all databases on server: To reset an auto_increment field to 1: To load a local csv file into an empty existing table: (This assumes you’ve already created your empty table with…
Has your JSON using jQuery web app suddenly stopped working? Getting a parsererror on your JSON objects, where you got none before? This is what happened to me when my site upgraded to jQuery 1.4. I use the Google API’s…
Anyone with 15 minutes of free time can edit their hosts file to block 99% of the ads that appear on web pages, for free. This works on PCs, Macs, and Linux/Unix computers. What’s a “hosts” file? It’s a file…