Sorting in Emacs

Emacs provides several commands for sorting text in the buffer. All operate on the contents of the region. They divide the text of the region into many sort records, identify a sort key for each record, and then reorder the records into the order determined by the sort keys. The records are ordered [...]

Make your Gmail better

The majority of us use Gmail so spending some time on using tools that could make your gmail better would be of value to most people.

WordPress auto install not working – try this

I was having trouble with my WordPress auto install for a few months and never got around to fixing it as it was pretty compliated. then I came up on an article showing how to fix a WordPress auto install .

SED tricks for Seach Engine Marketing

I have been using SED a lot to do replacements in SEM file urls. With hundreds of URL replacments I got hung up on a few SED things.

By now you are probably familiar with SED being able to do the following

s/OLD/NEW/ s/1234/5678/

But I found this trick handy.

s/http\:\/\/clickserve.*// s/430000000……..// [...]

Input a file as a parameter at the command line to a Bash Shell Script

I was writing a program and wanted input each line of a file into an array. However, I wanted to enter my filename on the command line as a parameter instead of being prompted once the program started running. I had the hardest time figuring out how to get this to work.

program_name.sh [...]

Replace Space in a string with a character using Bash Shell Script

I got stuck on this one because most of the pages I looked at tried echoing and piping to SED. This was problematic for me because I wanted to direct the data to the variable not to standard output. Finally this little snippet saved the day.

LinuxConfig was the most helpful reference I [...]

Show Saturday and Sunday the same size as other days in Outlook

Show Saturday and Sunday the same size as other days

By default, in Calendar, when you click Week or Month, the calendar displays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday and Sunday are compressed and shown half the size of the other five days. You can change the display of the Month view [...]

Cygwin Bash

So I had a heck of a time getting Cygwin setup on my new computer at my new job at createTraffic.com. This post is more for me than anyone else but I did find these links useful in my bashrc quest. It was great to get emacs running again. But I fear I may [...]