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Make TextWrangler beautiful with custom colour schemes
For those of you who don't know, TextWrangler is free text editor for Mac OS X. Today, I'm going to show you how to make it shine by applying a slick, custom colour scheme. But "what's a colour...
View ArticleSimple menu system in C
[cc lang="css"] /* ============================================================================ Name : main.c Author : Michael Park Version : 1.0 Copyright : noseyparka.me.uk (2013) Description :...
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A Holy Grail Flexbox layout
Welcome to the future of CSS layout: The CSS Flexible Box Layout Module (or Flexbox for short). It is a powerful new CSS box model optimised for user interface design. Look how easy it is to implement...
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OS X Terminal nirvana
Inspired by Jakob Lægdsmand’s fantasic how to get an awesome looking terminal on mac os x blog post, I switched my OS X Terminal from the humble Bash (Bourne Again SHell) to the Zsh (Z shell). I also...
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Google Keep Palette
I’ve grown to love Google’s note taking service, Google Keep. It provides a simple, fast and convenient method for taking notes and boasts excellent cross platform support. The killer feature for me is...
View ArticleInstall Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
Thanks to Umair on NoobsLab.com for sharing this one:$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-tweak-testing/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak I installed Ubuntu Tweak in order...
View ArticleInstall Moodle 2.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 using Git
This article explains how to install Moodle 2.2 on Ubuntu using Git. The following assumptions are made: - Apache, MySQL and PHP is already installed. - A MySQL database has been created for ‘Moodle’ -...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04: SSH public key authentication configuration – /etc/ssh/ssh_config
# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file. See# ssh_config(5) for more information. This file provides defaults for# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files#...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04: Default configuration – /etc/default/rsync
# defaults file for rsync daemon mode# start rsync in daemon mode from init.d script?# only allowed values are "true", "false", and "inetd"# Use "inetd" if you want to start the rsyncd from inetd,# all...
View ArticleAdd header image to Thematic child theme
This tutorial assumes that you have a WordPress site running the Thematic WordPress Theme Framework with a working Thematic child theme. If you would like to learn how to set one up, please see Create...
View ArticleExclude directory from rsync backup in Cygwin
Upon attempting to run an rsync backup, execution failed with the following error:$ rsync.exe -az --delete --progress --inplace --exclude "/cygdrive/d/System Volume Information" /cygdrive/n/...
View Articlersync: failed to set permissions on "/path/to/file": Operation not permitted (1)
I encountered the error when attempting to transfer source files from a HostGator web server to a local HP dt1000i Desktop Hard Drive connected to an Ubuntu 12.10 box via USB.A Samba share is...
View ArticleDisplay post author on single-user Twenty Twelve WordPress blog
On a single-user Twenty Twelve WordPress blog (like this one) the post author is not displayed by default. If you wish to override this behaviour, you have three options:register another user and...
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LaTex - functions to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade and back again
Today, I discovered a fantastic (free) tool to generate LaTeX equations: Sciweavers’ Online LaTeX Equation Editor.I am going to use the tool to generate sexy mathematical functions to convert...
View ArticleBad computing jokes
There’s a band called 1023MB. They haven’t had any gigs yet.Why do engineers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.The programmer’s wife tells him: “Run to the shop and pick up a...
View ArticleShell commands to append SSH public key to authorized_keys file
Method 1A simple command to add an SSH public key (on local host) to an authorized_keys file on a remote host. In this example, a non-standard port of 2222 is used:$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 2222...
View ArticleBackup your Gmail account in Windows using Gmvault
There are a plethora of tools and services to backup the messages in your Gmail account. In this very short tutorial, I am going to use Gmvault (as recommended by Lifehacker) to do this. But why backup...
View ArticleFix Jekyll Layout Build Warnings
I heart Jekyll and Jekyll hearts me. It’s a lean and mean static site generator blogging machine that enables you to ‘blog like a hacker’. One of the coolest features is the jekyll serve command, which...
View ArticleInstall and configure automysqlbackup OS X Yosemite
This article walks through the process of installing and configuring the wonderful open source MySQL backup tool automysqlbackup on OS X Yosemite. The easiest way to install the software is using the...
View ArticleInstall and configure MAMP on OS X Yosemite
My Apache MySQL PHP (MAMP) is a one-click-solution for setting up a fully-featured web application development environment on your computer. The MAMP suite is available for Macintosh and Windows...
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