Stupid vim tricks
Quick hit today. Ever open a file in vim, only to realize that you need sudo to write to it? Usually, you have to exit out of vim, open vi as sudo, and make...
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Easier Development with Unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is a poorly defined umbrella term. It's generally agreed to encompass:
Easier Development with Unobtrusive JavaScript, Part II
Last time, I wrote about why you might want to make your Ajax heavy pages functional with javascript disabled. However, I dodged the issue of how to do that...
Hibernate Search - Shard Query Optimization
Hibernate Search shards allow you to break down your index data into separate Lucene directories. Typically, indexes would be broken down either into N equa...
Hibernate Search - Query API helper
If you are programmatically generating a query string and then parsing it with the query parser then you should seriously consider building your queries dire...
ColdFusion whitespace
Quick hit today. Somehow I went six years working with ColdFusion without knowing that functions implicitly output anything inside them, including whitespac...
NetBIOS Naming Service + lmhosts
Recently, I have been working on a project using Alfresco JLAN to simulate a Windows CIFS (aka Samba) share in Java. Not being able to (easily) replace the ...
Ruby on Rails - First Impressions
I've started playing around with Ruby on Rails. Maybe it was my recent experience with Python, which has a similar syntax to Ruby. Perhaps it's because I ke...
Greasemonkey + Blogger HTML encode selection
Quick hit this week. Here is a Greasemonkey script I've been using for a few months. It adds a new button to your Blogger post editor which allows you to HT...
The case of the OOM Killer
An aircraft company discovered that it was cheaper to fly its planes with less fuel on board. The planes would be lighter and use less fuel and money was sav...