My moretweet userscript for twitter

I don't go visit twitter.com that often, so whenever I visit twitter, I'd like to see more entries displayed on the home page. So i thought I needed something to trigger the click event on the "More" link automatically And the natural choice is GreaseMonkey . (There's a nice tutorial about...
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Apache virtual server in Ubuntu

I re-install my Ubuntu box every now and then, and every time, i often forgot how to config my virtual servers in apache. There's many tutorials out there but they seem overly complicated when using sites-available folders. So here's the steps: 1. cd /etc/apache2 and copy mods-available/rewrite.load to mods-enabled 2. Note that...
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My first javascript game

This is the game I developed a long time a go while learning about jquery ui drag & drop http://clu3.com/jquery/game/index.php The rule is simple: Try to upload an image (not too large, I'm using shared server. size <500K is the best ), and the program will cut the image into square pieces...
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My top favorite eclipse – Zend Studio shortcut keys

Shortcuts I can't live without Move between files Ctrl + E:  List of opened files Ctrl + F6:  Same as Ctrl + E, but faster for switching between 2 files continously Alt + Left Arrow:  Previous edited file.  Similar for Alt + Right Arrow Ctrl + Pageup|Pagedown : Tab on the left|right of the current...
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What else i would like twitter to have

Even though twitter was designed to be simple, if I use my twitter (@clu3) mainly as a source of news, i'd still like to be able to 1. Filter tweets by category/language and option to follow certain cagegories from some one 2. Filter tweets by date 3. Filter tweets by a particular person...
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How to turn ZendFramework’s ActionStack’ evil to goodness?

The short answer is : Use a mini request, or what ever you might like to call it, maybe internal request or light-weight request. You will get it once you've read this. OK, so ActionStack is evil. I agree with Ryan's post on "Why ZF ActionStack is evil" but not with...
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floating & clearing? What’z up CSS?

Ok, i never liked CSS before, probably mainly because of the differences between different browsers but now that I have more time to learn about it, I'm getting excited.And this has always been a *myth*: CSS boxes floating around, overlapping and boxes broken, overflown.... Totally outta control. But not anymore, I...
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Jquery coding’s best practices

- Use the 'var' keyword where appropriate - Cache queries by storing the result in a variable - Use event delegation, especially when you have lots of elements - Create plugins if possible, and follow the following Mike Alsup's suggestions: 1. Claim only a single name in the jQuery namespace 2. Accept an options argument...
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url shortener? Try my new kid on the block

OK, enough of tinyurl. It's tiny? Look ma, I'll break my fingers typing those 11 characters (tinyurl.com) on my ifone I needed something shorter and here you go: z.pe. Find out more ... ...
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Installing new fonts in Ubuntu

For pre-8.04 versions of Ubuntu, open the dir font:/// with nautilus $ nautilus font:// and copy the .ttf files there. For Ubuntu 8.04 or later, you can just copy the .ttf files to your $HOME/.fonts/ folder (If the folder doesn't exist, just create it). If you install the font file from somewhere trusted on...
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