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Regular Expression Tools

Monday, September 8th, 2008

• RegExr is an excellent web-based utility that helps you construct a RegEx query by showing you results in real time. Hits are highlighted as you write your expression. 
• Regular Expression Tutorial - This regular expression tutorial teaches you every aspect of regular expressions. Each topic assumes you have read and understood all previous topics. So if you are new to regular expressions, I recommend you read the topics in the order presented.
• tuaw tip regular expressions for beginners

Tags: expressions, find, regexp, regular, search
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Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens – Acko.net

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element’s value when a color is selected.

Download Farbtastic 1.2 – 8 January 2007 (License: GPL).

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens – Acko.net

Tags: color, javascript, js, picker, tools
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Release 0.7.2 of SCPlugin (for svn 1.4.x or 1.5.x)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

2008/07/05 – Announcing Release 0.7.2 of SCPlugin!

I’ve just put up the final release of 0.7.2, in the usual place. This release makes major improvements in user name / password handling, appearance, and personalization, and now supports your choice of Subversion 1.4.6 or 1.5.0. I encourage all users to upgrade. See the announcement for full details.

More at scplugin.tigris.org

Tags: Finder, Mac, svn
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Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer – istartedsomething

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

This is radical! Wow![kml_embed movie="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLLzV5qeKyk" /]Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer – istartedsomething

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UMW Blogs support videos for WPMu 2.6

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Jim Groom, who administers the UMW group of WordPressMU blogs has placed a whole slew of videos online, which help users with WPMU, as well as migrate from WPMU-1.3.3 to WPMU-2.6.

The inimitable Andy Rush (a.k.a. EduRush) and I have been working diligently to create a whole slew of screencasts documenting the new interface for WPMu 2.6. We’ve finished a whole bunch of them over the last week or so and published them on the now official UMW Blogs Screencasts site, so below is a list of the screencasts we have created. All of the screencasts are Creative Commons and while they’re currently published as SWF files, we will be uploading them all to Blip shortly. Keep in mind that these screencasts are specific to the UMW Blogs installation, but they still may prove useful for anyone who wants to point people to a quick overview of the administrative backend, the changes between versions WPMu 1.3.3 and 2.6, and a very tab-specific discussion of the how to manage a WordPress blog.

Posted in Blogs, News, PHP, Trends, Web 2.0, WebTech, WordPressMU, cool, guru, nifty, tutorial | Comments Off

FAQ WPMu 2.6 – UMW Wiki

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Here’s a very nice FAQ on using WordPressMU 2.6. Of course, it is geared toward  UMW blogs (instead of FreedomBlogging.com) but the information is pretty good, and the screenshots are prolific.

FAQ WPMu 2.6 – UMW Wiki

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www.clay available for only $100k-$500k

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This seems like a bad idea to me… It’ll make domain names that much more difficult to remember… Ah well… that’s progress!

Board opens way for new top-level domains – Network World

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CSS Hacks and IE7

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

This is a really great article on how to hack IE7. CSS Hacks and IE7

• The Child Selector

• This selector uses a “>” symbol as a “combinator” that is placed between two parts of a CSS selector, and indicates that the target of the rule is the element on the right side of the “>” combinator, but only when that element is a direct child of the element to the left of the combinator. Thus, the selector table>td can never target any element, because TD’s are never direct children of tables, only of TR’s. On the other hand, the selector tr>td would select every TD on the page, since all TD’s are direct children of TR’s.

  The main difference between the Child combinator and the familiar space combinator is that the space combinator is a “descendant” combinator, meaning that the element to the right of the space only needs to be between the tags of the element on the left to be selected. So with the selector table td, all TD’s will selected, since TD’s always fall between the tag pair of one table or another.

  The Child combinator is quite useful for targeting rules to direct children of an element, without also targeting the more deeply nested descendants as well. Unfortunately, up until IE7 there was no point in using it for its intended purpose, since so few of the viewing public would get the benefits of the styling.

• The Adjacent Sibling Selector

  • This selector is a “+” combinator symbol placed between parts of a selector, and is very similar to the Child combinator. The only difference between the two is that while the Child combinator points to direct children of an element, the Adjacent Sibling combinator points to an element which directly follows another element in the source.
    

    Thus the selector tr+td cannot select anything, because no TD ever directly follows a TR. Instead, TD’s are contained inside TR’s, and that is not considered to be “following” the TR. However, the selector tr+tr would select any TR that directly followed another TR, which means that every TR within a table would be selected except for the very first TR in that table.

    Get it? An adjacent sibling element not only follows its previous sibling, but is also completely separate from it. Further, if two DIV’s are in sequence and each contains a paragraph, those two paragraphs are not considered siblings, because they reside in different parent elements. The fact that one follows another means nothing unless the following sibling starts at the same point where the previous sibling ends.

• Star HTML

Oh, you want to know about that structural thing? Well, the hack that uses it is called the star-html hack, and it works by taking advantage of an oddity in Explorer’s treatment of the Document Object Model, or DOM for short. Simply stated, all web pages start with a root element called html, which then contains two children, the head and the body elements. Those two then contain other children, and so forth.

• Most browsers obey this arrangement, but Explorer for both Win and Mac do not. They seem to think there is a mysterious element enclosing the html element! It’s pretty strange, but in fact this extra outer “root” element has no apparent ill effects on web pages, and remained unnoticed for years, until Edwardson Tan began experimenting with CSS selectors. He found that a selector written as * html  .targetelement would apply the styles to .targetelement, but only for the IE browsers.

  Think about it. That star is the “universal” selector, so it points to any element, but it comes before html. Therefore, the full selector in effect says: “Select .targetelement when it is contained within html, and when html is contained within any other element”.

Tags: CSS
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iBanjo » Blog Archive » Subversion’s Future?

Friday, May 9th, 2008

iBanjo » Blog Archive » Subversion’s Future?

I have to say, after using Mercurial for a bit, I think distributed version control is pretty neat stuff. As Subversion tests a final release candidate for 1.5 (which features limited merge-tracking abilities), there’s a bit of angst going on in the Subversion developer community about what exactly the future of Subversion is. Mercurial and Git are everywhere, getting more popular all the time (certainly among the 20% trailblazers). What role does Subversion — a “best of breed” centralized version control system — have in a world where everyone is slowly moving to decentralized systems? Subversion has clearly accomplished the mission we established back in 2000 (”to replace CVS”). But you can’t hold still. If Subversion doesn’t have a clear mission going into the future, it will be replaced by something shinier. It might be Mercurial or Git, or maybe something else. Ideally, Subversion would replace itself. If we were to design Subversion 2.0, how would we do it?

 

Last week one of our developers wrote an elegant email that summarizes a potential new mission statement very well. You should really read the whole thing here. Here’s a nice excerpt:

 

Tags: cvs, subversion, svn, version control
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