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Useful Usability Tips

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Smashing Magazine recently published “10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines“. Actually great work by Dmitry Fadeyev. I find the list well-written...

Extract HTML Structure From Page With Simple Script

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I often want to extract parts of HTML page. Often I find myself parsing a doc with Nokogiri and extracting it with a CSS selector. It’s pretty straight-forward...

Resolve Symlinks When Copying Files With Rsync

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
In a project I’m working on there is a structure where images and css are common for some of the subprojects. One folder has static pages for testing...

Script identifying CSS shorthand possibilities

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For my own convenience I created this script to identify css files where colors like #aaaaaa can be rewritten in the short form #aaa (saves bandwith, but...

Zyb.com sync with new Nokia E52 phone

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
The company I work for has negotiated a new phone deal with another tele provider, which meant everybody had to change phones and numbers. I have been using...

Greasemonkey Script For Removing Scrollbars on Al-Anon Page

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I have recently discovered an alcoholic in my family. And in order to deal with that, a friend pointed me to Al-Anon which has material and publications...

Remove Trailing Space from source files

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
This Stackoverflow user asked How To Remove Trailing Whitespace Of All Files Recursively. This reply helped me to work around the fact that \s and \t are...

Run Tiny Webserver From Any Directory

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
There are alternatives to Resolve Symlinks When Copying Files With Rsync . How about firing up a (tiny) webserver that starts up quickly. Yehuda Katz suggested...

How to make Git ignore files that already exist in your project

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For a project I’m working on, I had to change some files with personal settings, and the files kept showing up with a git status. Adding files to .gitignore...

How To add “Open folder in Textmate” to Finder Context Menu

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I wanted to add a menu item in Finder’s context menu that would open the selected folder in Textmate. A google search suggested the method described...