Monthly Archives: July 2006

Capture full page screenshots with firefox

By | Published: July 9, 2006
Ever wanted to capture the entire page you are viewing in firefox instead of just what is shown on your screen? Ever need to do that from a command line? Here are two extensions that let you do just that. Page Saver The first extension is called Page Saver and comes in two versions. The [...]
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Virtualization gaining speed

By | Published: July 7, 2006
At work we jumped on the virtualization wagon some time ago first when User Mode Linux and then later with Xen. UML was pretty good but Xen has been great. We had a few reasons for moving from physical machines to virtual ones: Rack space is a recurring cost so maximizing the use of space [...]
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SQL Beautifier

By | Published: July 6, 2006
I pulled a large amount of SQL out of some existing code and wanted to have it formated nicely for me. I figured there had to be some type of pretty printer for SQL available outside of applications like TOAD. I have access to TOAD but it would have required a reboot so I figured [...]
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WordPress permalinks with lighttpd (lighty)

By | Published: July 5, 2006
WordPress out of the box works just fine with lighttpd. But you will run into issues if you want nice looking and search engine friendly URLs. To get that you need to turn on the non-default permalinks. Most of the information out there on how to set your webserver up to handle this is written [...]
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Easier scrolling images with Yahoo UI

By | Published: July 3, 2006
This is a great article about the yahoo ui tools. I mention it mainly because they have a nice scrolling widget a lot like what I put together as an example of the things you can do with script.aculo.us (see Smooth Scrolling Image List). A link to the demo: Sliding demo The entire article: 15 [...]
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