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YSlow – Firefox extension that helps to optimize your web pages
In: Asides| Neat Stuff| Web development
26 Jul 2007YSlow is a Firefox extension that works with Firebug to grade your web pages’ performance and gives you advice on how to fix any problems. Awesome. It has JSLint built into it too. And yes I got a big freaking F. Via Arun (IRL).
MySQL command line “secret”
19 Jul 2007Tom Preston-Werner (of Gravatar and Chronic fame) wrote about this neat MySQL command line “trick” where instead of ending your SELECT statements with the usual semi-colon, using a “\G” gives you a very readable output.
mysql> select * from locations where location_code = ‘SIN’ limit 1\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
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Firefox “ad” in the Singapore MRT
In: Browsers| Mozilla| Neat Stuff
16 Nov 2006I saw a familiar furry animal on one of the ads near the entrance of City Hall MRT and did a double take when I realized it was actually a firefox! I had no real choice but to snap a grainy photo and post it here.
Well, the ad actually labelled it as a “Red Panda“, [...]
Google Reader – a Bloglines user’s perspective
In: Blogging| Neat Stuff
24 Oct 2006With the recent update of Google Reader, Google’s shot at an online feed reader, I just had to try it out even though I was rather contented with Bloglines. I’ve been a long-time Bloglines user (since end 2003 I think), and even though there was little in terms of innovation and useful new features happening, [...]
Extract Any Archive with Ruby, Slimtimer, Feedalizer
In: Neat Stuff| Ruby
12 Aug 2006A bunch of cool stuff I found over the weekend that didn’t individually deserve a blog post, but I thought would be worth sharing.
Extract Any Archive with Ruby
This is really neat if you could never remember what commands or command-line arguments you need to extracting archives (.zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 – those kinds of archives).
With this [...]
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