You are here: Home » tips
Tag Archives: tips

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 [...]

Read full story • Comments { 2 }

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 [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Tip of the Day: Secure Your Gmail

by mitch on March 21, 2007 in Geekery, JavaScript

From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever. When I say simple, I mean one line of code: location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, ‘https:’); This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

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 [...]

Read full story • Comments { 3 }

Cross-site Scripting Techniques and Prevention

by mitch on April 18, 2006 in Ajax, Geekery, JavaScript, Web 2.0, Web Design

ALA serves up a great article addressing the dangers of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Author Niklas Bivald says, Validating and sanitizing user input is no longer optional. Consider what your users really need to do, think about what characters they need to accomplish those tasks, and strip/convert as necessary to protect your community. Part 1 [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Bite Size Standards

by mitch on April 14, 2006 in Geekery, Web Design

Bite Size Standards went online today, offering web development tutorials, tips, etc. In their own words: The basic idea being that busy web designers don’t always have time to read or write lengthy tutorials but that a daily “bite” of useful information, taken or given, could be good for the soul. Sounds promising. Hat tip [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

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 [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

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.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }