Tyler Mulligan’s tips and tricks. I have a strong interest in computers, specifically web design, programming and increasing efficiency. I’ve created this blog to share snippets of code and bundles of information with anyone who’s interested.
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Though it’s still using 1.2.6 (with current jQuery at 1.3.2), visualjquery.com has always been a favorite of mine for it’s simple and elegant layout. Some of the functions leave some documentation to be desired but after working with jQuery for a...
I’ve been a little obsessed with improving the speed of web pages via minified javascript and css files. YUI’s team not only agrees with this, they recommend gzipping your minified js and css files. For a while I’ve been calling YUI Compressor inside...
When Firefox 3.5 came out, I along with many others, was eager to try it. For a while I ran it out of the archive directly but this caused minor issues as it’s a messy solution. At some point I noticed firefox-3.5 in the...
I was working on running some statistics on log files and it required me to figure out the difference to increase the accuracy. I came up with the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
# get the dates
start_date=$(date --utc --date "$(ls -Rt --full-time...
While I was looking for a better image viewer than the default ‘eye of gnome’ (eog from the command line), that’s able to play animated gifs, I came across a command line tool called feh
sudo apt-get install feh
feh is is lightweight image viewer...
