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How to say “GIF” 3 Jun 2013 | 09:31 pm
Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF image file format, accepted a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award this past week. His acceptance “speech” is understated epic-ness. So apparently it really is “Jif,” li...
Display line numbers in WebSVN file detail view 20 Jun 2012 | 09:17 pm
WebSVN is an open source subversion repository browser written in PHP, offering a compelling alternative to the more obtuse ViewVC and the commercial Atlassian Fisheye. By default, WebSVN does not di...
It’s dangerous to go alone 8 Mar 2012 | 10:50 am
Take one of these! Print, hang outside your office or cubicle. Your goblin-slaying co-workers will thank you.
Create Self-Signed Wildcard SSL Certificate 25 Feb 2012 | 05:16 am
Here’s the command list to quickly create a self-signed SSL certificate from the Linux command line. You can copy/paste each line to the shell to generate the key. It assumes you will place each set ...
What comes after the yottabyte? 17 Jan 2012 | 12:52 pm
I was reviewing the data storage requirements for a project recently which had me talking in terabytes, and thinking long-term in petabytes. For those of you who don’t know, tera- and peta- are the bi...
Write code like they do in Hollywood 14 Dec 2011 | 01:07 pm
Want to look like a badass hacker in front of your friends? Head over hackertyper.com and just start pushing buttons. As long as you avoid mashing your palms against the keyboard, your non-techie fr...
Brian Rolle machine gun celebration 22 Nov 2011 | 08:53 am
I’m not much of a sports guy, but this sack celebration by Eagles’ Linebacker Brian Rolle in last night’s game against the Giants has to be one of the best defensive celebrations I’ve ever seen. Equa...
Fix WordPress “Fatal error: Allowed memory size” messages 27 Oct 2011 | 04:38 pm
You may (or may not) have noticed this site was down for the past few days, displaying a blank page no matter what URL was entered. After recalling that I had turned off PHP error onscreen outputting,...
Recover hijacked default keyword search engine in Firefox 10 Sep 2011 | 06:47 am
Earlier today I installed what I thought was an update to the Xvid codec in order to watch a video. I should have been more careful with the source, as their installer proceeded to modify my Firefox i...
Using hashmarks for URL anchors in Apache rewrites 5 May 2011 | 06:09 am
Today I had to make an Apache rewrite that redirected a custom URL not only to a different page, but also to a specific anchor link on the destination page. In other words, /foobar had to actually loa...
