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Do Know Evil - Tyler Mulligan's Tips and Tricks
http://www.doknowevil.net
I have a strong interest in computers, specifically web design, programming and increasing efficiency. This blog details some of my surroundings in life.
- Added on: Dec 4th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tyler Mulligan
- Listed in: Web Development Software
- Tags: internet tips design tricks random efficiency
Recent Posts
Using Nautilus Scripting Abilities to Integrate Right Click File Enqueues with mocp
Using moc player can prove to be both beneficial and challenging. I’ve found myself going back to exaile for a few hours on random days for the simplicity in file management via a GUI. Since I prefer to use a single media player and mocp is l...
Resources for Learning About jQuery Functions and a Note About Callbacks
Though it’s still using 1.2.6 (with current jQuery at 1.3.2), visualjquery.com has always been a favorite of mine for it’s simple and elegant layout. Some of the functions leave some documentation to be desired but after working with jQu...
Reducing pageweight by compressing production css and js files
I’ve been a little obsessed with improving the speed of web pages via minified javascript and css files. YUI’s team not only agrees with this, they recommend gzipping your minified js and css files. For a while I’ve been calling Y...
Installing Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko) on Ubuntu using the default repos and customizing the icon to be more recognizable
When Firefox 3.5 came out, I along with many others, was eager to try it. For a while I ran it out of the archive directly but this caused minor issues as it’s a messy solution. At some point I noticed firefox-3.5 in the repository: tyler@qu...
Finding the difference in time between the first and last file in a folder using bash
I was working on running some statistics on log files and it required me to figure out the difference to increase the accuracy. I came up with the following bash script: #!/bin/bash # get the dates start_date=$(date --utc --date "$(ls -Rt -...
feh - lightweight command line image viewer and data tool
While I was looking for a better image viewer than the default ‘eye of gnome’ (eog from the command line), that’s able to play animated gifs, I came across a command line tool called feh sudo apt-get install feh feh is is lightwei...
