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(CSS) CSS text shadows and border rounding - skopp

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:51:33 GMT

1. Adding shadow to text – text-shadow Helps make your text stand out from the rest. 2. border image rounding

(Bash) bash: how to start a service and wait until it\'s up - noah

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:02:26 GMT

Sometimes you need to start a service that takes a while to spin up. Solr and Selenium-RC Server, for instance, can be unavailable for several seconds after the command to start them is issued. Using Netcat, it's easy to poll-and-wait until a newly-started service begins listening on its proper port.

(SVN) Limit the depth of an SVN checkout - noah

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:57:45 GMT

*Version Control With Subversion,* 2d Ed., p71 Sparse trees are useful when you only want to check out the contents of some branches, from the `branches/` directory, but you don't want to change the structure of the repo. Just set the checkout depth of the branches you don't want, to `empty`. Then they'll remain empty in the working copy. This only affects the working copy, not the repository itself. That is, this is only visible to you, and only affects your local machine.

(Other) Way to specify the width of an element as percentage pixels - johnloy

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:07:12 GMT

(Ruby) How to find the path to the script that is currently executing - noah

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:12:14 GMT

I just realized this kind of regex operation is done with slice in Ruby. In Perl that would be print 'path/to/file' =~ m{(.*/)};

(JavaScript) Describe Jira Task bookmarklet - noah

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:59:05 GMT

(Bash) clipboard commands for OSX - noah

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:44:20 GMT

(Perl) search and replace across multiple files with Perl - noah

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:00:52 GMT

A couple of useful snippets from an article I found at Perl.com **Perl search-and-replace on the command line.** All of these should be usable under Cygwin as well. But remember that bash wants single-quoted strings but MS-DOS shell wants strings to be double-quoted.