Eight CSS Tips for Advanced Layouts and Effects

2017-07-03 11 min read GuestPost
The realm of web front-end development has made considerable progress over the last few years. However, the web front-end, as the users see it, is still the same: HTML markup styled with CSS. Many layout problems can seem simple at first but often proves to be tricky. Without extensive knowledge of how certain CSS features work, these advanced layouts can seem impossible to achieve with CSS alone. In this article, you will find eight expert CSS tips and tricks that leverage lesser known CSS features to implement some of these advanced layouts and effects. Continue reading

rfc2html – php script to view rfc with index and links.

2014-07-21 2 min read Learning Linux
If you have to keep viewing RFC’s and you miss index and links in RFC while viewing rfc, then you should check-out rfc2html. It is scrtip that takes plain text rfc and converts it to html. You can get the original code from sourceforge. However, I found some small issues with the script and have sent a mail to the authour about the same. In the meantime, you can use the diff below to fix the issue’s or download this diff file rfc2html. Continue reading

get the contents of whole site like some wiki or wikia

2014-02-24 1 min read Learning Uncategorized
For wikis and wikia, generally if you are trying to get some url mirror, then websucker.py is an excellent option. This script is in the python sources so, to get this tool, yumdownloader --source python Install the rpm downloaded in current directory and then go to ~/rpmbuild/SOUURCES. You should find a Python-*.tar.xz file here, just extract with tar xvf Python*.tar.xz and there you go, you should find the tool in Tools/webchecker/websucker. Continue reading

get all the urls in html file (local or on server).

2014-02-17 1 min read bash Fedora
To use this, you will need the lynx tool, so install that first. sudo yum install lynx Now, to get list of all the URLs in local html file or some URL, just execute this: lynx -dump -listonly Related articles Trouble in using file_get_contents() How to send image to server with url in ios Endangered species of the Web: the Link

quick notepad in firefox.

2013-05-20 1 min read Firefox
If you quickly need to note something and you do not want to leave your browser then just add a bookmark to : data:text/html, <html contenteditable> and whenever you need to get the notepad, just open this bookmark. Sorry, I do not remember, where I got this from, but this is something that I did not discover but since I do not remember where I got this from, I am not able to credit the authour. Continue reading

viewvc – serve current directory in web interface.

2013-02-18 1 min read Fedora
Here is the description of viewvc: ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, and change log listings. It can display specific versions of files as well as diffs between those versions. Basically, ViewVC provides the bulk of the report-like functionality you expect out of your version control tool, but much more prettily than the average textual command-line program output. Continue reading

Battery performance improvement with powertop and using xidel.

2012-12-24 1 min read Fedora Linux
For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in those would improve the life to quite an extent. Here is the description of powertop: PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that makeyour computer use more power than necessary while it is idle. Continue reading
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