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(Bash) Convert Apple .plist file to from XML / binary - stiobhart

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:30:16 UTC

A pair of handy terminal commands for converting Apple .plist preference files from binary to XML format [allowing for easy editing with a text editor] and then back to binary again, afterwards.

(CSS) CSS - rounded corners - stiobhart

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:19:43 UTC

at least until HTML5 unifies all this crap into one tag, this helps me remember the three concurrent versions we need to use to cover all bases.

(CSS) CSS - drop shadow - stiobhart

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:02:07 UTC

CSS box shadow syntax - just because i can never remember the order of the attributes, off the top of my head!

(Bash) OSX - enable disable spotlight indexing - stiobhart

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:48:22 UTC

how to enable or disable spotlight disc indexing from the terminal. all the following work on root "/". to specify another volume, put its path at end of the command

(ActionScript) actionscript - cuepoint listener for FLV video in flash - stiobhart

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:01:16 UTC

basic structure of the actionscript function to listen for cuepoints embedded in a piece of FLV [flash video]. note: cuepoints need to have been embedded when the video was converted from its original format to FLV - prior to importing it into flash

(ActionScript) actionscript - trace actions to get info about cuepoints in FLV video - stiobhart

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:55:37 UTC

this is a handy snippet to trace the info about any cuepoints actionscript encounters, embedded in a FLV [flash video]. these traces will display the name, type and time of the cuepoint - in a nicely formatted list

(ActionScript 3) actionscript 3 - button action [listen for multiple events. eg. MOUSE_OVER, MOUSE_OUT, MOUSE_UP] - stiobhart

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:44:00 UTC

actionscript3 version of a more complex button action, which responds to rollover, rollout and clicking. this method uses one single 'buttonstuff' function with a 'switch' inside which causes the function to respond differently, depending on what the user action on the button was. i think this is a neater way to do it than to have each individual 'addEventListener' trigger a separate function. in actionscript3, button actions can no longer be attached to the buttons themselves or called from the main timeline. you need to put an 'addEventListener' in the timeline to 'listen' for interaction with the button and then call an appropriate function to deal with that action. the button needs to have an instance name. in this case it is called 'stupidbutton'

(ActionScript) actionscript 3 - button action [listen for a single event. eg. MOUSE_UP] - stiobhart

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:27:12 UTC

actionscript3 version of the basic button action. in actionscript3, button actions can no longer be attached to the buttons themselves or called from the main timeline. you need to put an 'addEventListener' in the timeline to 'listen' for interaction with the button and then call an appropriate function to deal with that action. the button needs to have an instance name. in this case it is called 'stupidbutton'

(ActionScript) actionscript - button action [to attach directly to button] - stiobhart

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:45:59 UTC

basic actionscript button action that can be attached directly to a button on the stage. this will NOT work in actionscript 3, which does not allow actionscript to be attached directly onto buttons. make sure you're attaching this action to a button and not to a keyframe on the timeline. the actions window should say "actions - button" when you open it. if it says "actions - frame" you're trying to attach this action to the timeline and flash will blow a fuse!

(Bash) openSSH - server commands - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:46:25 UTC

commands for starting, stopping etc openSSH

(Bash) *nix - tar create and expand archives - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:43:20 UTC

commands for dealing with tar files

(Bash) *nix - tar create and expand archives - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:43:19 UTC

commands for dealing with tar files

(Bash) *nix - find and change - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:34:11 UTC

find all files owned by xxx and change them to be owned by yyy

(Bash) *nix - change user's home directory - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:32:19 UTC

change user's home directory

(Apache) apache2 - enabling and disabling sites - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:29:48 UTC

enable and disable sites and modules in apache 2

(MySQL) mySQL - granting access permissions - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:24:31 UTC

granting DB specific and general access priveleges from the CLI

(MySQL) mySQL - database backup commands - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:23:02 UTC

CLI commands for backing up mySQL database

(Bash) UNB - file permissions - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:16:36 UTC

permissions for various folders in UNB installation

(Bash) *nix symbolic link - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:14:08 UTC

making a symbolic link

(Bash) *nix - basic commands - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:10:46 UTC

some basic *nix terminal commands

(ActionScript) actionscript - load in XML [with attached stylesheet info] - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:44:55 UTC

load in XML and style the text via CSS

(ActionScript) actionscript - date object - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:39:50 UTC

actionscript date object and some date calculations

(ActionScript) actionscript - paypal button in flash - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:34:29 UTC

code to implement a paypal button in flash

(ActionScript) actionscript - sorting [with an external javascript] - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:29:05 UTC

an external javascript sort function, which you can import into flash to help sort arrays of objects. include the script thus: #include "objSort.js"

(ActionScript) actionscript - object introspection - stiobhart

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:23:29 UTC

this will loop through an object and get all its properties

(Bash) ubuntu - ID ports & running services - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:51:57 UTC

identify listening ports and services running on these ports

(Bash) apt-get completely uninstall a package - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:13:16 UTC

(ActionScript 3) actionscript3 - trace actions to get info about cuepoints in FLV video - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:47:17 UTC

(ActionScript) actionscript switch statement - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:26:07 UTC

shows the basic structure of a switch statement. switches are useful when you want to respond to a series of possible values that a variable might have, without having to write a shitload of "if(blah blah){do blah}" code which, as we know soon ends up as curly bracket spaghetti!

(ActionScript 3) import necessary actionscript to work with FLV & metadata [ie. cuepoints] - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:07:56 UTC

this code loads in the necessary actionscript classes for dealing with FLV [flash video] and metadata [in this case cuepoints]. this needs to be loaded right at the beginning of your code, so flash knows how to handle cuepoints embedded in FLV [flash video] files.

(ActionScript 3) actionscript cuepoint listener for FLV video in flash - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:59:41 UTC

(Other) ubuntu version check - stiobhart

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:51:30 UTC

prob works on other linuces too!