I recently ditched add block plus for firefox because it was eating my machine alive. I switched to using hostsman witch is a great utility for windows. But I felt that there was a better way to block ads for my entire home network. Since I have a Cisco router... Read more
I have been using Aptana Studio 3 for the past few years as my primary IDE. But there are been features / plugins that I have wanted to integrate into my setup. Since Aptana is based off of eclipse I thought that finding plugins would be very easy. Turns out... Read more
CSS3 pseudo selectors have a lot of power. Lately I have been playing around with :not(), :nth-child() and :nth-of-type(). One thing that I discovered while working on table row striping is that :nth-of-type() and :nth-child() ignore / override :not(). I was trying to stripe all of the odd rows in... Read more
I have had my Cisco 851w for a number of years most of which I used it as an access point. A couple months back I switched ISP's and was able to use it as my router. It had been a very long time since I had configured a Cisco... Read more
Last week I updated to tortoise svn 7.1 on my desktop. Everything seemed to be working right, but it kept asking for my password every time I connected to a ssh+svn repos even with a connection to the server via pageant (version .60). So I was forced to type in... Read more
Getting a double border with a different color doesn't leave you with may options.You can use border-style: double or outline: 1px solid blue. But I wanted the double border only on one side, so I decided to play around with the box-shadow rule. Check out the jsfiddle below. I'm using... Read more
I decided to turn an earlier post idea (See http://jebaird.com/blog/using-jquery-create-overflow-menu-seen-google-wave ) into a jQuery UI widget. Its based on the google wave menu. view the demo GitHub repo What It Does It detects which menu items are hidden in the parent element overflow. Takes the hidden items clones them and... Read more