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Bash: It’s the little things

by mitch on June 27, 2007 in Geekery, Linux

The Bash shell always amazes me. I needed to create a Maildir using the typical Maildir/cur, Maildir/new, Maildir/tmp structure and stumbled on this: $ mkdir -m 0700 -p Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} The -m and -p options are no-brainers, but the {cur,new,tmp} was new to me. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen… one [...]

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Tip of the Day: Cleaning An LCD Display

by mitch on April 23, 2007 in Geekery

After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays. After mixing a batch, and tearing up an [...]

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Firefox Smart Keywords for Microsoft Support and MSDN Sites

by mitch on May 2, 2006 in Geekery

Smart Keywords are one of my favorite Firefox features. Enter a keyword in the location bar (CTRL + L), type a couple of search terms, and voila, instant results with minimal typing. Since my job requires frequenting the Microsoft Support and MSDN sites, I added Smart Keywords to simplify the searches. Each of the following [...]

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Back Up del.icio.us Bookmarks

by mitch on April 11, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress

Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this: It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post. This is a “no-hassle” solution done [...]

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More Ajax Resources for Beginners

by mitch on April 10, 2006 in Ajax, Geekery, JavaScript, Links, Web 2.0

When I first became involved in a project that would require Ajax techniques, I quickly went to the web in search of tutorials to learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object. Following are the resources I found most helpful as I learned to create dynamic web applications. Links to various JavaScript libraries and other sites [...]

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Great CSS Link Dump

by mitch on March 28, 2006 in Asides, CSS, Geekery, Web Design

Found this at del.icio.us… Layout-palooza. Great source for links about CSS layout, hacks, and tricks. Many familiar, many new.

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