Occasionally I am writing a post about HTML which I need to post the code to illustrate my argument (I guess I am not alone).
By default, WordPress will convert unrecognized uses of < and > into characters which actually look like < and >, which will “look” like a < and a > when posted. Or, if it finds the use of an HTML tag within the post, it will use the tag like it is HTML and you will have funky looking text and a messed up layout. (quoted from codex discussion)
I find this very frustrating when my post doesn’t appear to the way I wanted it to.
How to get around it?
You just simply convert your html open and close bracket “< and >” to “< and >“. However you are not going to do it one by one or do search-replace in text editor, it will be time consuming.
I wrote a simple Java Swing program which does just what I mention above plus it can convert html character code back to html code in case you need to make any changes.
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Here is a quick tip. Code below showing you how to include CSS Style Sheet file in to HTML document
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”path_to/styles.css” />
</head> <body>
</body>
</html>
This is a list of handy tips that could help you in a blink on how to convert String to Date in SQL. This post cover 5 popular databases (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, Informix)
Post your comment here if you find this post useful or want to contribute more explaination.
Oracle
Syntax:
to_date(date_string, format)
Example:
SELECT user.name, user.location FROM user
WHERE user.starteddtm = to_date('20/10/2007 16:01', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi'); Read more…
There are a few options/commands you can use to find out which version of Ubuntu you are using. They give very similar information which you wanted to know but present in different format.
Command line:
cat /etc/lsb-release
Example:
manet@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
Command line:
lsb_release -a
Example:
manet@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
Command line:
cat /ect/issue
Example:
manet@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.10 n l
Command line:
cat /proc/version
Example:
manet@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.27-9-server (buildd@rothera)
(gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) )
#1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:53:41 UTC 2008
If you want to automate your find and replace in MS Office Word Document
You could use or modify this Sub to suit your own needs.
Remember it only support upto 512 bytes (512 characters) of text at the time.
Sub FindReplace()
' Find and replace string in document
' Support up to 512 bytes (double size the default)
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = "old text"
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.Text = "new text"
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Forward:=True, Wrap:=wdFindContinue
End With
End Sub
Here’s another simple command for novice linux user
Copy entire folder (including content) to another location
cp -R
Example:
cp -R /home/myid/myfolder /var/www/newfolder
This will copy myfolder to newfolder. In another word, content inside myfolder will be now in newfolder
The command you should use is
rm -r
Example
rm -r /var/mydir
This will remove “mydir” folder, if there’s content it will be recursively deleting them all.
First of all, how many popular Web Browser are there at the moment?
As far as I observe there are 5 of them, and they are on the big race at the moment
- Internet Explorer (Windows)
- Firefox (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Opera (Windows)
- Safari (Mac)
- Google Chrome (Windows)
According to W3Schools Browser Statistics
The result base on November 2008
| IE7 |
IE6 |
Chrome |
Firefox |
Safari |
Opera |
| 26.6% |
20.0% |
3.1% |
44.2% |
2.7% |
2.3% |
From table above, you can see Firefox is ruling the market now. Chrome (by Google Inc.) is new and I would describe Google Chrome as young and dangerous to the browser war. It could take over the market in a very short time.
In some case, you need to tell VBscript to open external program or open a certain file using external program.
Example below demonstrates how execute adobe reader (pdf reader)
OPTION EXPLICIT
Dim fso, ws, file, APP_PATH
Set ws = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
APP_PATH = """C:\Program Files\AdobeReader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"""
file = "C:\temptest.pdf"
ws.run APP_PATH & " " & fileTo run this example:
- Copy this code, past it in to new text file
- Change value to correct path and file
- Save it
OpenFile.vbs
- Double click on
OpenFile.vbs
Or you might download source file vbs-openfile.vbs and make modification to it.
If you are using Ubuntu version 7.10 or above, you can install PHPMyAdmin using apt-get.
I assume that you have apache and php installed on your system.
The following steps is guiding you to install PHPMyAdmin and get it running
- Run this command
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
- Edit this file
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
- Add this line
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
- Save file and exit
- Now go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin
- Login using your mysql root account and make sure all the databases/tables are showing
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