Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu - letsencrypt lets encrypt

This got me through the process, pretty easy:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-14-04

Command, Option, & Shift Symbols in Unicode

Command, Option, & Shift Symbols in Unicode

Update: Ratty in the comment noted that ⎋ is actually the ESC key button not the power button.
Update 2012: Added more symbols.

Unicode does define some other characters which are sort of Mac-specific.

⌘ – ⌘ – ⌘ – the Command Key symbol
⌥ – ⌥ – ⌥ – the Option Key symbol
⇧ – ⇧ – ⇧ – the Shift Key symbol
⎋ – ⎋ – ⎋ – the ESC Key symbol
⇪ – ⇪ – ⇪ – the Capslock symbol
⏎ – ⏎ – ⏎ – the Return symbol
⌫ – ⌫ – ⌫ – the Delete / Backspace symbol

Note: The Power Button and Shift Key are not Mac-specific. The power button is described as “broken circle with northwest arrow”, or an escape character from ISO9995-7. The shift key is described as an “outline up-arrow”.

Even though these are defined in standard Unicode, there is no guarantee that they will exist in the font of the receiving browser, but they’re at least globally defined, so they’re fair game.

Adhesives Reference Chart

Adhesives Reference Chart

CSS Entity Converter hex, decimal, paste-in

On-line converter css-javascript-character-entities

Tailing logs with color Tail -f

Try this:



tail -f path-to-logs/server.log | perl -pe 's/(.*?)(ERROR|error|.*Exception:)(.*)/$1\e[1;31m$2\e[0m$3/g'


for more colors, items, add more




 | perl -pe 's/(.*?)(yada-yada:)(.*)/$1\e[1;31m$2\e[0m$3/g'




and for other colors:




in \e[1;31m




31 - red

32 - green

33 - yellow

etc




Launch TWIT Live with VLC on Mac

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high

iOS on screen message

Great app if you need an on-screen message on an iOS message

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/make-it-big/id479282584?mt=8

I needed this at the film festival to get a ticket

XPath Expression Tester Web Page

Paste in XML and test XPath expressions with context and detailed result set info?

http://sites.scalora.net/xpath/

-Mike

mac os x show hidden file & folders

mac os x show hidden file & folders

An all-at-once solution

MacOS home & end in the Terminal Window

See: http://fplanque.com/dev/mac/mac-osx-terminal-page-up-down-home-end-of-line#c18186

Alternatively, if this has problems, or is bash specific (doesn't work in tcsh) you can try this alternative solution:

Terminal->Preferences->[Settings]->[Keyboard]:

Find end, home, pg up, and pg down (the list is alphabetically sorted).

First double click 'end' and a prompt comes up that lets you remap the key, for 'Action' select 'send string to shell:' and then click on the entry field.

Press 'Esc' which emits '\033' then type '[4~' after it, so the text field should now show: "\033[4~". Click 'OK'.

Now you should be able to remap the other keys if you know the key codes, by pressing 'Esc' to emit \033. The codes for each of the keys are:

end \033[4~
home \033[1~
page down \033[6~
page up \033[5~

You will want to add 'Shift-pgdwn/pgup' to ask the buffer to scroll up and down. Do this by clicking '+' and adding 'pg down' with the 'Shift' modifier and then select 'scroll to next page in buffer', and do the opposite for pg up.

I believe this is the optimal fix.

jQuery based bookmarklet generator

Nice and easy to use

Photoshop Basics

Need to try this

Global env variable editing

Here is a settings module for Mac OSX to edit environment variables. This edits the environment.plist so that even GUI apps see the values.

-Mike

Lang Ref - howto in many languages

Nice resource, has lots of groovy info

-Mike

MapSource Install

How to install MapSource software without CD, DVD or previous version.

Goes great with these free Utah Topos: http://www.miscjunk.org/mj/mp_uttopo.html

More free maps for Garmin: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/19/

-Mike

BBEdit Script utilities, examples and samples

I've wanted a good 'duplicate line' like edit-plus (CRTL-j) has, thinks.

-Mike

Quick Reference Cards for everything

Great selection of Quick Reference Cards, I hope this doesn't go off-line b4 the next time I need one. I wonder if the wayback machine picks up the PDFs.

-Mike

Setting up Time Machine on a SMB or other NAS/Share

Setting up Time Machine on a SMB or other NAS/Share

10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps - Mac OS X Hints

-Mike

Build a WIn 7 bootable flash drive

I'll need this some day.

-Mike

05. Setting up SSH on Cygwin (client and server)

Great page for setting up the Cygwin SSH client and server, I need this every time I setup a new windows system. On Windows 7 (probably Vista too) you need to use "Run as Administrator" on the bash shell when running ssh-host-config.

DIY: iPhone ringtones - make 'em for free

Hope this still works with the latest iTunes/iPhone software

instructions

-Mike

iPhone CSS info

Some nice iPhone CSS info I came across.

Some tips on advanced regex usage

You often see the beginner stuff but this is really the  more advanced topics.

20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples

In this article you’ll discover some terrific and unique JavaScript-powered navigation techniques and examples.

read more | digg story

14 Incredibly Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets

A useful set of cheat sheets for web designers.

read more | digg story

Google App Engine Pylons Authentication Decorator

Cool, not sure what it would take to convert to Django.

-Mike

10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja

Using the Web, you can learn how to do just about anything in Photoshop, and either become great at it or just get really good at faking it. Either way, you’re doing cool stuff.Here are ten sites to get you Photoshopping like a champion

read more | digg story

Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online

Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online

Good list of resources.

30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources

30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources

Great set of tutorials

-Mike

How To Sync Your iPhone to Mutiple Computers

http://gizmodo.com/5065031/how-to-sync-your-iphone-to-mutiple-computers

I may need to do this some day.

-Mike

8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data

Cool CSS charting, this blog has lots of good web dev info.

10 Principles of the PHP Masters - NETTUTS

10 Principles of the PHP Masters - NETTUTS

Great article with lots of useful information about PHP dev.

Add A Custom iPhone Home Screen Icon

Add A Custom iPhone Home Screen Icon

Add cool iPhone home page icons to OTHER peoples web sites on your iPhone

-Mike

50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials

Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques involve similar use of the photoshop tools.

read more | digg story

Top 10 DOS Batch tips (and Windows Command Prompt)

Top 10 DOS Batch tips (Yes, DOS Batch...) - Jon Galloway

Lots of cool MS_DOS / Windows Command Prompt batch file tricks.

Dual-Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop

Transforming an XP Laptop into a Dual-Boot XP/Ubuntu Linux System

Notebook computers are generally preloaded with Windows XP, but for those of us who do considerable work in the Linux environment, a Windows-only notebook is far from ideal. I worked with Unix on Windows packages such as Uwin and Cygwin for several years, but I finally decided I wanted a full Linux installation on my notebook.

400+ High Quality Patterns

Patterns can be found every where. Most commonly we can see them in fabric and wallpaper, but they also make great visual elements for web design. Here is a collection of patterns of all shapes, sizes, and color. Some are images, and some are pattern files for Photoshop and Illustrator.http://designreviver.com/freebies/400-high-quality-patterns/-Mike

read more | digg story

Six Ways to Make Vista and XP Work Your Way

Print directory folders, dump dopey Balloon Tips, save ornery files. Plus: I debunk a bogus performance trick.

read more | digg story

Google's Distrubuted computing

Very interesting video of a lecture. -Mike----This is a talk that was given in Norfolk Washington by an engineer that works inside a datacenter for google. He describes how their datacenters have progressed and how they maintain the machines in the datacenters.

read more | digg story

Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 1: Program Mode for Nikon D80

In auto mode your camera makes just about all the decisions for you. It's time to take control, hit the highway, and learn what you can do in program mode. Switching to program mode, however, allows your camera to make some decisions for you, but also puts three things in your control: the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Let's start!

read more | digg story

Reset the Root Password of MySQL Server » My Digital Life

Reset the Root Password of MySQL Server » My Digital Life

When ya need it, ya need it!

XPath Expression Testbed [XPath Visualizer]

Great XPath visualizer that works in FireFox. I used to use the MSXML one but I have trouble with IE7 and prefer to to use FireFox anyways.

-Mike

Java Regular Expression Visualizer

Works great.

-Mike

Over 300 Gorgeous Icons (they're free, licensed under creative commons)

Handy for anyone who wants to add some pretty icons to an app or website



read more | digg story

The Bash Quick Reference Guide

A one-stop handy quick reference for the Bash Shell. All the information you need, in one place.



read more | digg story

Installing webmin on Ubuntu server edition (edgy)

I put together this info from several different sources:

First, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

mscalora@linux:~$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Please uncomment these two lines by removing the # sign:

# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

so that they read:

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

Then run this to update apt's cache:

mscalora@linux:~$ sudo apt-get update

Then get some webmin dependencies with:

mscalora@linux:~$ sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Then download webmin with:

mscalora@linux:~$ wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin_1.340_all.deb

of course you will want to update the version number part to the latest stable version. See http://webmin.com/ for version info.

Then install webmin with:

mscalora@linux:~$ sudo dpkg --install webmin_1.340_all.deb

You can now connect to this machine on port 10000 using ssl/https to run webmin ( https://linux:10000).

-Mike

15 Javascript Snippets You Can't Live Without

"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special."



read more | digg story

Old email into Gmail

Loading old email from your Outlook into Gmail



read more | digg story

Top 12 Do's and Dont's of Copyright Law

Most people don't understand copyright law - which can be very costly if they do something illegal. It's so easy to copy, share, modify text, images, audio, video nowadays that learning the keys of copyright law is a smart move.



read more | digg story

71 CSS Menus for free

Great list of resources for CSS developers



read more | digg story