Pete FreitagJanuary 13, 2011
Quick Google CDN jQuery Tip
Here's a quick tip if your using Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN) for serving up jQuery (or other scripts).So if you want jQuery 1.4.4 you can use a url like this:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.
October 29, 2009
Viewing Images with Eclipse
Here's a quick tip for Eclipse users. When you double click on an image file in eclipse it typically opens up whatever program your OS has associated with that file type. You can configure eclipse to view images in the editor pane fairly easily, without installing any plugins.
October 28, 2008
Web Design Tips for Programmers
I found a good article on dzone today titled Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design. The title is actually misleading, rather than focus on the why, it will actually help you create some better looking pages.I've often wanted to write a blog entry about the same topic.
December 14, 2007
A Project Management Tip for Fridays
Here's a quick tip for project management, and staying on top of tasks...I am always getting tasks, bugs, or change requests via email, IM, or phone.
July 24, 2007
Seinfeld's Productivity Tip
LifeHacker has a great productivity tip from Jerry Seinfeld.Here's how it works, let's say you want to learn about all the new features in ColdFusion 8. Now grab a wall calendar, and a red marker. Every day that you learn about a new feature mark a red X on that day.
February 07, 2007
Tip for Viewing Images in Eclipse
Here's a quick tip for those using Eclipse / CFEclipse, and would like to view images in your project from within eclipse.Go to Window » Preferences in the Eclipse menu. Then expand General » Editors and click on File Associations.
January 02, 2007
MySQL Optimization Hints
Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn't. To satisfy your cravings MySQL has several keywords that can be placed in your SQL statement to give the database server an explicit optimization instruction.
June 07, 2006
CSS Uppercase / All Caps
Need to know how to make text all uppercase or in all caps with CSS? Add the following to your CSS stylesheet:div.uppercase { text-transform: uppercase; }
That will take all the letters and capitalize them.
March 27, 2006
Apple 30 Inch Cinema Display Boosts Productivity up to 73%
If you've been trying to figure out a way to get your hands on a 30" Apple Cinema Display, show your boss these reports on the productivity gains associated with using larger, or multiple monitors.
March 10, 2006
Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH
Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it's pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH.
February 07, 2006
Use CFSILENT
Here's my tip for the day. If you have a choice in using either the cfsilent tag, or cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true" use cfsilent.Here's why
Easier to type
Easier to read
The enablecfoutputonly gets very messy when used across cfincludes.
December 06, 2005
20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure.Disclaimer: The thing about security is that there are no guarantees or absolutes.
December 01, 2005
Vi in a Nutshell
The unix text editor vi probably has more features than Microsoft Word yet I've only been using about 5 of them. Recently I've been learning a bit more about it.
September 22, 2005
CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
I never cease to be amazed at what problems can be solved with pure CSS.
September 21, 2005
4 Google Tricks
Here are four things I didn't know you could do in a google search until recently:Fuzzy Search - Search for ~music player, and google searches for music player, mp3 player, audio player, and other words that have similar meanings to music.
August 29, 2005
LIMIT and OFFSET SQL Pagination
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support a really cool feature called OFFSET that is usually used with a LIMIT clause.The LIMIT clause is used to limit the number of results returned in a SQL statement.
August 09, 2005
DateFormat, and TimeFormat mask shortcuts
Did you know that there were some date/time mask shortcuts for the DateFormat, and TimeFormat functions? They were added in ColdFusion MX 6.0, and they flew under the radar for many. I have seen them in the docs when I lookup a mask, but I always forget about them.
August 07, 2005
How to Disable the Safari RSS Feature
If you don't use Safari as an RSS Feed reader (I use bloglines), the feature can get kind of annoying. Every time you click on an RSS feed, it is redirected to a feed:// url.
August 01, 2005
Increase Productivity with Action Tagging
@Here's a little productivity tip for those of you using a bookmarking system that supports tags (such as del.icio.us).
I like to call it Action Tagging, here's how it works.
August 01, 2005
How to Comment Code Better
Ryan Campbell has posted some good tips on practical approaches to writing better comments. His article should help you find the median between over commenting, and not commenting enough.
July 26, 2005
Search Engine Ranking Factors
Ignore the fact that this page looks like it was made in 1995, because the content on it is quite relevant. It contains a list of over 100 factors that effect your ranking, either positively or negatively in Google (and they don't hurt your standings in other search engines).
July 21, 2005
AdSense Optimization Tips (from google)
Google recently held a webinar for AdSense publishers. They gave out some adsense optimization tips that they have gathered over the past few years. The transcript is pretty lengthy, so here's the summary:Ad Location - "the middle, above the fold location perform best.
June 24, 2005
How To Make a Tag Cloud
Jeffery Zeldman proclaims that tag clouds are the new mullets. However, as I'm sure you're aware some people just can't resist the mullet.
June 16, 2005
Some del.icio.us Tips
del.icio.us, if your not fimiliar with it, is a social bookmarking tool. I use it for two reasons, its an easy way to access my bookmarks on multiple computers, and its a great way to find new web sites. I have mentioned it a few times on my blog (I even have a link to bookmark with del.
May 13, 2005
Dashboard Widget Tip - Quickly Removing Widgets
You can make the close X show-up on a widget by holding down Command and Alt/Option. This is sometimes easier than hitting the + button.
May 12, 2005
Howto keep Eclipse Plugins between upgrades
The Javalobby has a great article called Eclipse: Managing Multiple Eclipse Installations that shows you how you can keep one plugins directory and have it work for multiple eclipse installs.Since I do a lot of Java 1.5 development, I have to use Eclipse 3.
May 12, 2005
Fonts for Programmers
Courier New is the standard monospace fixed width font used by programmers. If your looking to try something new, I just found a list of fonts for programmers. Right now I'm trying out Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
May 11, 2005
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attacks
I found a site that has some good security tips for web developers. It mentions one type of attack that doesn't get much attention - called Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
April 28, 2005
High Performance MySQL
I just received my copy of High Performance MySQL by Jeremy D. Zawodny (from Yahoo) and Derek J. Balling.
July 22, 2004
Right Click to Open Command Prompt in Directory
Here's a handy tip that I got from a co-worker, who found it in the book Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step. It creates a shortcut in the right click context menu of Windows Explorer to open a command prompt in the current directory.
December 19, 2003
Regular Expressions with ColdFusion - a Howto Guide
Regular Expressions are a powerful tool for both developers and computer users alike. Regular Expressions were originally developed on Unix systems and used in programs like Perl, sed, and grep.
December 09, 2003
xcopy - Handy tool on windows
xcopy is useful program that is included with Windows.
August 12, 2003
Google Calculator
To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.
March 18, 2003
Right Click - Edit with Notepad
Developers and system administrators often need to open files of types that aren't mapped to a particular program. This ofcourse requires that slow "Open With" window to pop up. A trick I recently found is to add a shortcut to the right click menu, to open files with notepad.
January 31, 2003
FTP Scripts on windows
I found this Microsoft KB article today 96269 which shows you how to use the ftp program that comes with all versions of windows an automate a file transfer.
ftp -s:script.txt ftp.server.com
The contents of script.
October 13, 2002
Uptime for Windows 2000, 2003, XP and NT
Almost every unix operating system comes with a utility called uptime that tells you how long your server has been running.Unfortunitly no such tool comes with windows, but there is a pretty fool proof way to determine the date you computer was last started.
