Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How to grep in unix

The "grep" command allows you to find text within a file

grep -r -i main-content ../../

grep [options] [search query / pattern] [where]

Some options
-r / recursive: read all files under each directory, recursively
-i / ignore case: upper - lower case friendly



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Wordpress Youtube Gallery

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-simplegallery/

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Making DIV a Link - Javascript Vs CSS

Few days ago, I was looking for the best way to make a DIV into a link when I came across this website: Almost Effortless!. The author showed how to make a div a link with a little bit of Javascript (see article). It is actually pretty simple:

The Javascript Technic:
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By this method, the whole block is clickable with just a single line of code while, with CSS, you will need to set few parameters to get the same result. Pretty cool, no?

Here is the CSS technic:

Now, let’s see how it works with CSS.

First, put a link inside your div:
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…and now set the link’s display property to 100% to fill the DIV in your stylesheet:
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1. #header {
2. width:300px;
3. height:100px;
4. border: solid #EEE;
5. }
6.
7. #header a {
8. display:block;
9. width:100%;
10. height:100%;
11. text-decoration:none;
12. }
13.
14. #header a:hover {
15. text-decoration:none;
16. background-color: #EFEFEF;
17. }

#header {
width:300px;
height:100px;
border: solid #EEE;
}

#header a {
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100%;
text-decoration:none;
}

#header a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}

Conclusion:
As you can see, the Javascript technic is faster than the CSS one but keep in mind that some people might disable Javascript in their browser and won’t see the link.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Flare Video

My buddy Joey found a great free h.264 video player that you can customize.

http://www.flarevideo.com/

Check it out

Friday, June 18, 2010

jQuery Pirobox

Need an awesome way to display your pictures on your site. Check out pirobox.

http://www.pirolab.it/pirobox/

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Fixed Background Image

In CSS:
background:#42021E url(images/bg.png) repeat-x;
background-attachment:fixed;
}

If you want to learn more about backgrounds, you can read up at w3chools.