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Author Archives: Bill
Complex Sass mixins with defaults and multiple arguments
Sass Mixins SASS mixins are a very handy way to create snippets of CSS that can easily be reused and updated. In a recent project I needed to add some CSS transitions to several elements. A mixin seemed like the … Continue reading
Recursively Delete all files with names matching a Regular Expression
Logical Progression of building a command line trick So lets take this step by step… First list all the files Lets get a recursive list of all files in the current directory… 12$ find . …LOTS of files… Find filenames … Continue reading
Posted in find, grep, sed
Tagged Command Line, shell
Force Secondary Name Server to Reload Domain
Ok, the situation is I just updated my primary name server (BIND on Linux.) In most cases with everything configured properly (and assuming you updated the “serial” in your zone configuration,) the change should propagate quickly. But if something goes … Continue reading
Posted in Domain Name Servers, Linux, Server Administration, Web Servers
Tagged BIND, DNS, Domain Name Server, named, webserver
Resize EBS volume attached to Amazon Web Services EC2 instance
Resizing EBS volume Unfortunately, you can not currently resize an EBS volume on the fly. However, you can pretty easily resize with a quick reboot. The process is as follows: Create a snapshot of your current volume Create a new volume … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Web Services, EBS, EC2
Tagged Amazon, AWS, EBS, EC2, Hosting, server administration
Microsoft Word Export to PDF without borders
Creating PDFs With no White Borders When designing documents I often like to have logos and images go to the edge of the document. Unfortunately when I print or save as PDF from Word I was unable to create a … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Microsoft Word
Tagged borderless, borderless printing, Microsoft, Microsoft Word, PDF, Word
IE 7 or 8 Won’t Load My CSS Files
CSS files not working in Internet Exploder Explorer 7 or 8? Did you know there is a limit on the number of CSS files Internet Explorer will load? After 31 css files Internet Explorer will just ignore additional css links. … Continue reading
Posted in Browser Compatibility
Tagged browsers, Cascading Style Sheets, compatibility, CSS, development, IE
Apple Magic Mouse Won’t Reconnect After Battery Change
Magic Mouse is Not So Magic When The Batteries Die Usually I don’t have any problems when I get the notice that my magic mouse needs new juice. I switch it off, change the batteries, and usually when I switch … Continue reading
Posted in OSX
Tagged accessibility, Apple, keyboard, keyboard control, Magic Mouse, mouse, OS X
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Preview 1 VMware Tools Kernel Panic
Testing Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 in VMware When trying to install VMware tools in OS X 10.8 preview 1 there seems to be a bit of an incompatibility. Everything works fine installing up to that point. So you have … Continue reading
Posted in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion 4 Black Screen
Screensaver and Power Options Ever since upgrading to VMware Fusion 4 I have been intermittently getting a black screen when VMware has been in the background for a while. Looking at the thumbnail for the machine in the “Virtual Machine Library” … Continue reading
Posted in Virtualization, VMware Fusion, Windows 7
Tagged Black Screen, Power Saver, VMware Fusion, Windows
How can I configure different emails for different Git servers or repositories?
“.gitconfig” in your home directory If you’re like me, and you wanted to configure a different email for different repo’s the first place you look is ~/.gitconfig. This is the default configuration for git for your account. You can set … Continue reading
Posted in Command Line, Git
Tagged Command Line, Git, source control