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jQuery Timer Plugin
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. -Max Frisch I m happy to post about my first ever jQuery plugin. This plugin will allow you to add a simple timer to a HTML element like DIV or SPAN … Continue reading
Nav Highlighter
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. -Clyde Tombaugh Navigation items built out of li elements or a common class name assigned to multiple divs or a set … Continue reading
Enable 2 finger scrolling on the trackpad in Ubuntu
Just a reminder for me to enable 2 finger scrolling on the trackpad using Ubuntu. I had enabled this in the Mouse/Trackpad settings but it didnt work for me. Here goes, Create a text file with the following text in … Continue reading
How to create sticky table headers using jQuery
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. -Ralph Marston Here s a nice way to use jQuery and make table headers sticky when a page is scrolled down and the table headers reach … Continue reading
How to upgrade firefox in Ubuntu
A good fox does not eat his neighbor’s fowl! -French proverb This post is supposed to be just a reminder for me on how to upgrade the default Firefox on Ubuntu. 10.04 uses Firefox 3.6.23 when Firefox has released version … Continue reading
Solution: How to get a svn log by author name
I am in the habit of maintaining a daily work log. I do this in a Google spreadsheet and maintain each month on an individual sheet. This not only lets me share with the team what I ve been up … Continue reading
Renaming multiple files in a folder to a numbered format from the terminal
This is just for my reference. I needed to rename a whole lot of png files in a folder from filename.png, some-other-filename.png to 0.png, 1.png etc. It took a little bit of experimenting and it lead me to: count=0; for … Continue reading
Toggle TinyMCE rich text editor effectively
Using TinyMCE effectively can take a bit of practice and time. Especially if you have multiple TinyMCE instances on the same page pulling dynamic data. Two common problems are to display the data itself and the other is to toggle … Continue reading
Goals4Me
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. -Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog I m happy to announce that I ve just launched the BETA version of my first independent app Goals4Me. There are still a lot of things … Continue reading
CSS max-width to the rescue
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth -Henry Louis Mencken Recently I discovered a wonderful CSS2 property: max-width. This property lets you fit your images inside … Continue reading