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Pinning Eclipse to the taskbar with Windows 7

By Shane Rutter On March 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Guides & Tutorials, Programming

Eclipse is a brilliant programming interface for many languages but when using a Windows 7 based PC you may have issues when pinning the shortcut to the task bar. As you can see below when I launch eclipse via the shortcut instead of using the pinned icon it creates a new one.

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Redirect requests for files & folders which dont exist with .htaccess

By Shane Rutter On February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In .htaccess

Normally if a visitor requests a file or folder which doesn’t exist your web server will respond with a 404 file not found error message, this isn’t the best looking error message and so it’s common to setup a redirect so instead of the web server showing the default page you can use a custom [...]

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CSS & Javascript Minify / Compression

By Shane Rutter On February 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Javascript, aJax and jQuery

Optimization is a key part of any website we need to keep it loading quickly for the sake of keeping visitors and also for lowering server stress. With internet connections becoming faster most developers skip optimization but mobile broadband and phones are growing rapidly which still have a relatively slow connection when compared to the [...]

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Capitalise the first letter of a group of words quickly & easily

By Shane Rutter On February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Javascript, aJax and jQuery

Sometimes as a web developer I have to capitalise the first letter of each word normally for title and header tags but I don’t want to have to sit there manually capitalising each letter. HTML and CSS don’t have a native feature which allows you to quickly capitalise the first letter automatically so we have [...]

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jQuery: Using prototype and jquery together

By Shane Rutter On February 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Javascript, aJax and jQuery

JavaScript is a powerful tool for a website but to extend the capabilities and functionality extra libraries can be included, the most commonly used libraries are jQuery and Prototype. Normally a website will choose either of these libraries but sometimes both libraries are required, if this is the case a small [...]

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