http://www.earthinfo.org Down to Earth Information Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:21:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.earthinfo.org/objective-c-correctly-scaling-button-background-images/ http://www.earthinfo.org/objective-c-correctly-scaling-button-background-images/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:16:45 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=734 I often find a need to scale buttons and background graphics to the correct size, but leave the edges at the same scale. So taking the button in Fig 1, if you simply scale it normally it looks like Fig 2, however I want to keep the borders the same like in Fig 3. So [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/objective-c-correctly-scaling-button-background-images/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/ http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 14:47:48 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=506 SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org] is a very handy tool, essentially it creates a database in a file. SQLite V3 should be installed automatically with PHP5. I find SQLite very handy when I want to make standalone code that uses a database, and because it doesn’t require an external application(such as Mysql) it makes it very portable. I [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/feed/ 2 http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/ http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 20:16:07 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=458 GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/feed/ 13 http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 06:51:16 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=402 This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me – When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order. If you just want the solution here it it… pre.command { width:80%; background-color:#FFF5F5; [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/feed/ 29 http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/ http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 13:59:58 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=259 Learn by example how to scrape web pages using PHP and Xpath.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/feed/ 5 http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-quick-command-ref/ http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-quick-command-ref/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:51:39 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=185 A handy guide by example, of some common linux commands.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-quick-command-ref/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/some-useful-html-snippets/ http://www.earthinfo.org/some-useful-html-snippets/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:23:00 +0000 mattg http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=129 Example code for: Pop-up on exit, HTML Comments, Page Margins, .htaccess security]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/some-useful-html-snippets/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/example-smtp-conversation/ http://www.earthinfo.org/example-smtp-conversation/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:59:47 +0000 mattg http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=117 A quick overview of how SMTP emails are sent.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/example-smtp-conversation/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/ http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:23:00 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=90 Some useful and simple ways to speed up your use of remote Linux based web servers.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/feed/ 4 http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-command-line/ http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-command-line/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:01:34 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=55 Linux Command Line Tips you may not know, or are easily forgotten]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-command-line/feed/ 0