Turns out WordPress tries to make your posts look a little better by swapping out all normal quotes with smart quotes. That’s great for typography, but really bad when you’re posting source code like I often do on here. Trying to run pasted code with smart quotes in it will bring PHP down to its [...]
Found a quick little JavaScript trick that lets you edit page content from within FireFox. Copy and paste the following into your address bar and press enter. javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0 Everything on the page becomes editable. Sure, it doesn’t affect the file on server. But once you’re done you can save the resulting file [...]
YouTube will start offering full length TV shows with ads as Google is trying to get more revenue out of the video sharing site. Full story at NYTimes.com
About a week ago Google celebrated it’s 10th birthday. It’s amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that’s around that long. Screenshot of Google from 1997 They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play [...]
Looking for a place to polish up your Java skills? Try JavaBat. It’s a library of short Java projects that you fill in the code and it’ll check if for you.