Oh, the Things I Know

Target IE6 and IE7 Browsers without Conditional Comments

Syed Aslam — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:58:10 +0000

Need to target IE browsers? Here is a quick hack that doesn’t require conditional comments (note that your CSS will therefore not pass auto-validation, which is fine if you are aware of why it doesn’t). The code below will change the background-color of divs depending on what browser the user is viewing the web page …

Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) to Chuckle About

Syed Aslam — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:01:24 +0000

It can come when we least expect it, when we are happily playing our favourite game and diligently working on the report due tomorrow. Then, all of a sudden, when we are just right about to save our progress, the blue demon appears, stares at you straight in the face and tells you that some …

Git Cheatsheet – setup

Syed Aslam — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:43:22 +0000

Setup git clone <repo> clone the repository specified by <repo> ; this is similar to “checkout” in some other version control systems such as Subversion and CVS Add colors to your ~/.gitconfig file: [color] ui = auto [color "branch"] current = yellow reverse local = yellow remote = green [color "diff"] meta = yellow bold …

Recover MySQL root Password

Syed Aslam — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:33:17 +0000

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps. Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process. # sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password. # sudo mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables & Step # 3: Connect to …

This is another classic..

Syed Aslam — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:08:34 +0000

Filed under: fun Tagged: india, politics

7 Scam Maaf

Syed Aslam — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:24:51 +0000

Somebody forwarded this to me today, thought it was funny as well as thought-provoking about the political situation in India now. Filed under: fun Tagged: india, politics, scams

Easy Web Fonts with Google Font API

Syed Aslam — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:35 +0000

Web fonts allow you to step outside of the normal web-safe fonts by taking advantage of CSS’s @font-face rule. However, right now, browsers aren’t uniform in its implementation of @font-face. More specifically, web browsers differ in the types of font files they support (hopefully this will change with the WOFF standards). Additionally, you must be …

Loading data from multiple files in Ruby using Hash

Syed Aslam — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:32:48 +0000

Loading data into Database reading from multiple files was never easy. I have been working on different projects lately, which required such exercise often. A general technique I followed to do that is explained here. In a gist, this is what it looks like: require 'rubygems' require 'fastercsv' files.each do |key, value| file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/db/drugsatfda/" …

Adding close link to flash messages

Syed Aslam — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:34:51 +0000

The flash provides a way to pass temporary objects between actions. Anything you place in the flash will be exposed to the very next action and then cleared out. This is a great way of doing notices and alerts, such as a create action that sets flash[:notice] = “Successfully created” before redirecting to a display …

2010 in review

Syed Aslam — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:34:55 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at …