Archive for July, 2008
Associate mailto links with GMail!
Sick of copying and pasting email addresses from a webpage into your GMail account manually when you want to send an email? Use Firefox 3? Read on…
Oh GoDaddy, how I love to hate thee…
I was using DomainsAtCost.ca for all my domain registrations, going back years… recently however I wanted to put a few registrations on Paypal rather than Credit Card. I like how I pay for it with real money immediately rather than later… which I often get out of hand with.
So I signed up at GoDaddy.
One of my biggest pet peeves…
…is opening up some source code and seeing ^M’s at the end of every line. It’s an issue caused by the different characters operating systems use when you hit the enter key. Read on for a bit more detail about this, and a quick fix for it in vi!
Looping in CSH
The syntax for looping in csh slightly differs from that of sh, bash, or other more common shells… I had to look it up just now so I thought I’d record it for future reference.
How to Update Post Author in Wordpress
By default when you install wordpress, the first user created is ‘admin’. I tend to take it no further, and just use this account for all my posting and editing tasks. However, seeing ‘posted by admin’ everywhere doesn’t give things a very personal touch… so I wanted to change my existing posts to come from a new user.
