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Bookmarks for April 8, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

Midori
A lightweight, fast, and free web browser

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Bookmarks for April 7, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

Lubuntu
Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system developed by a community of Free and Open Source enthusiasts. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu .

Lubuntu XP three flavors
XP Themes for Lubuntu to help people transistion to Linux.

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Published on April 07, 2014 13:30

Bookmarks for March 30, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

WebLibrarian WordPress Plugin
A WordPress plugin that implements a basic library collection and circulation system.

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Bookmarks for March 26, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

commandlinefu.com
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.

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Published on March 26, 2014 13:30

What I Learned about Firebug

Tonight I attended a meetup with the Austin WordPress group on how to use Firebug presented by Nick Batik. I have used Firebug for ages, but no one ever taught me how to use it, so I’ve just fumbled around and pretty much stuck to finding out what CSS elements did what. Here’s what I learned tonight!

When inspecting an element you can click on a color code and then use your arrow keys to change the color incrementally. Click up to go lighter or down to go darker – on the entire value or just a color 0pair (R G or B)

Can click up and down arrows in all of the elements (like above) and it will change the value up or down. This is a good way to find the right margin or padding.
Same thing if the field is blank just use the arrows to see what options you have. I tested this with ‘text-align’ and it told me values like justify, right, and left.
If a field doesn’t have a style you can right click in the style area of firebug and choose to add an element style (will effect only this element – so if it’s the 2nd H1 it will only effect the 2nd H1) – it will add it in line which isn’t the best way to do css, but gives you the code you need to create a style tag with the next tip

You can right click on the tag in the html editor, copy the css path to get what you need for the style sheet

To make a rule for all fields of a type you can choose to ‘add rule’ which will add a rule for all fields of the same type – like all H1s

I never clicked the ‘Layout’ tab! Did you know you could see the ‘box model’? Do you know what the ‘box model’ is? I didn’t! See the image included here. Basically it shows you the size of the element, the padding, the border and the margin – and you can click the numbers here to edit them.

The computed tab will show you how the style is being defined and where it’s being defined – what file and line number it’s being set on.

The Cookies tab will show you all the cookies on the page so you can easily edit or remove them.

Someone asked why firebug over the built in inspector? Our speaker said that originally it was because it was the only option – and then it was because other developers kept adding on more features to firebug that aren’t in the inspector

for example there is fireftp – so you make changes in firebug, click send and it sends it directly up to your site.
And YSlow which suggests ways to speed up your site.
More add ons for Firebug

A lot more was covered, but these are the quick and easy tips and tricks I can share with you!

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Bookmarks for March 21, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

Solarized – Ethan Schoonover
Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.

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Bookmarks for March 20, 2014

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on

Meeting Room Booking System
MRBS is a system for multi-site booking of meeting rooms. Rooms are grouped by building/area and shown in a side-by-side view. Although the goal was initially to book rooms, MRBS can also be used to book any resource; computers, planes, whatever you want

RoomTimes
RoomTimes is a php written application with which you can manage the rooms of any organisation. You are able to create groups who use rooms for a special event. Other users in a group get an email with the reservation and can log in to see it.

Booked (formerly phpScheduleIt)
A web-based resource scheduling system that allows administered management of reservations on any number of resources. Typical applications are conference room or machine reservation management. Written in PHP and tested on MySQL.

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