One Line Webserver

Check out this swift little tip from razvantudorica.com:

This little line of BASH lets you save files via http and then access them as: http://host_ip:8080/. (No, it’s not really a web server, it’s netcat.)

while true; do { echo -e ‘HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n’; cat index.html; } | nc -l 8080; done

Wondering what BASH is? It’s “Born Again Shell Script” and is what you write in the Terminal on Mac or Linux and Powershell on Windows. If you’ve got two days, you can learn to navigate pretty darn well by following: this Command Line tutorial.

 

Posted in Technical Geekery, Tutorial, Useful Code, Web

Job Titles in the Web [design / development] Industry

Some most excellent descriptions of what job titles mean have been written by Chris Coyier and can be found at CSS-Tricks.

JobTitlesAM

(By the way, Mr. Coyier is a designer worth following.) Read the whole thing: here.

Posted in Artists & Designers, Employment, User Interface Design, Vocation & Profession, Web, Web & App Developers

How to Get Meetings with Busy People

You bring something to the table so don’t forget to bring it. Offer to share your knowledge. Read more here.

Posted in Employment

Circular Grid ala NYC Subway Map

NYCSubway_MaxRoberts

(Beautiful information design by Max Roberts. That’s it. It’s cool, no? So is this.)

Posted in Amusement, Information, Visual Concepts

jQuery BlockUI Versioning Fix

Did you get jammed with some code that doesn’t know that 10 > 2, too?  (2, too… ha ha ha) Here’s the fix…

—THREE-STEP FIX—
1) Find the file called “jquery.blockUI.js” or similar on your server

2) Now go looking for code that is testing a version ^1.1/. It will probably look something like this:

if (/1\.(0|1|2)\.(0|1|2)/.test($.fn.jquery) || /^1.1/.test($.fn.jquery)) {

3) Give that little version comparison an extra 0.0 so it reads ^1.10.0/. In this example it will look like this:

if (/1\.(0|1|2)\.(0|1|2)/.test($.fn.jquery) || /^1.10.0/.test($.fn.jquery)) {

Voila!

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