jQuery Pirobox

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

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

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.

How to get www in front of your URL

So my website, www.moderncurio.com is missing the "www" in front of it's name. Apparently it's a common occurrence that will 15 minutes to fix and weeks to resolve.

The solution is a two part fix. The first leg involves setting up Google Webmaster Tools. After you verify your sites (both the www and non-www). Go to Site Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain and set it to "Display URLs as www.example.com"

Part two of the solution is to set up a 301 redirect and you can do that by adding the code below to your .htaccess file:

# non-www to www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

To learn more, read up on more on 301 redirects.

After all this, it'll take a while for google webmaster tools to take effect. Apparently, it takes weeks for Google Webmaster Tools Blog to configure itself. You can learn more about the process at the tools.

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NOTE: WORDPRESS USERS:
For WordPress Users, you will also need to change a setting in wordpress general settings and set your preferred URLs to have www.

Online Favicon Maker

I know this isn't code related however I thought this would be good to track.

I needed to make a favicon today so I used this online site to generate it.

http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

Helping the Browser Locate the favicon.ico file

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

Subversion: Accidently SVN RM'd a file or folder?

*points finger*... laughs.

If you accidently svn rm'd a file or folder. Don't stress out. As long as you didn't svn commit the change, you're fine. All you have to do is run:

For a file:
svn revert file_name

For a folder:
svn revert --recursive folder_name

You can also do this to a file or folder that you ran svn add on.

Ruby: Inserting Table Data into your messages

So I wanted to improve the UI of a feature that I was building by having the alert include the actual name of what I modifying and at what time. There is a specific syntax used to insert it and it looks like this within the control structure.

if var.updated_at

show.now[:alert] = "Your client, #{var.name} came at #{var.modified_time}."

end

Ruby: if elsif elsif else statements... ya... they do exist.

I'm not crazy... just a n00b.

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# if, elsif and else illustrated

print "What distance in miles? "

miles = STDIN.gets.to_f

if miles < 2
puts "walk"
elsif miles < 6
puts "cycle"
elsif miles < 30
puts "bus or drive"
elsif miles < 350
puts "train"
else
puts "don't bother"
end

print "#{miles} miles is #{miles/5*8} kilometres\n"

Link for more info.