The guys over at @font-face have devised a very cleaver bit of css that will look for a font on your websites server and use that. You still can have default fonts too as when I tested this out “IE 6 & Google Chrome” didn’t work but all later versions of IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera all worked fine.

So what do you need to do..? Well chuck this code into you sites css and hay presto any font you want now works on your website.


<style type="text/css" media="screen, print">
@font-face {
font-family: "Museo";
src: url("http://www.sitemanehere.co.uk/Museo500-Regular.otf");
}

body { font-family: "Museo", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif }
</style>


All you will need to do is upload the font you want your site to use, in my case i used “Museo” but any will do.

If you need anymore help getting this working there are full instructions over on the @font-face website..!

Just chuck this bit of code into your css style sheet.

a:active
{
outline: none;
}

a:focus
{
-moz-outline-style: none;
}

If like me you need to add in a space in your main body section of the mailto, all you need to do is add %20 and if you would like a line break just add %0A.

Ok so what if you want to add a single recipient of maybe a subject line in your mailto?

Well all you need to do is add the following code and you’re good to go.

Send an email to someone (single recipient) – Example

mailto:someone@somewhere.com

Send an email to someone and somebody – Example
(separate multiple recipients with a comma)

mailto:someone@somewhere.com,somebody@somewhere.com

Send an email to someone but put somebody in the CC: list and somebody in the BCC: list – Example

mailto:someone@somewhere.com?cc=somebody@somewhere.com&bcc=somebody@somewhere.com

Send an email to someone with the subject “WTFDWK” – Example

mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=WTFDWK

Send an email to someone with the subject “WTFDWK” and some text in the body of the email message – Example

mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=WTFDWK&body=This%20is%20what%20we%20know..!

And there you have it.

For example, suppose we have two sitemap files in XML format generated a day apart and we want to quickly identify the new links from the second day’s file. XML files are not particularly human-readable but a Unix pipeline can be used to extract the data we’re after:

diff liammccormicktumblr_old.xml liammccormicktumblr.xml | grep "<loc>" | sort

• The diff command compares the two files and outputs any lines of text that differ between them.
• This output is then fed into the grep command, which in this case acts as a filter for the location links only.
• Finally, the sort command sorts the output into a list in the order in which the posts were added.

For example, the output of the above code will be:

> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/136973585/love-this-via-likeahobbitinthespace</loc>
> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/137014528/brettjohn-colorware-stealth-macbook-pro</loc>
> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/137029186/so-small-yet-already-incredible-tout-petits-et</loc>
> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/137029407/more-evian-babies</loc>
> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/137031979/pastel-houses</loc>
> <loc>http://liammccormick.tumblr.com/post/137034314/marvel-vs-capcom-2-hulk-vs-zangief</loc>

As with almost all Unix commands, further details on how to use these programs is available by issuing, for example, either man diff or info diff at the command line.

First up is the good old “length of a line of type” problem, for the best readability you want your “measure” to be between 40-80 characters, including spaces and for a single-column design 65 characters is considered ideal. but there is an easier way of working out what you need by using Robert Bringhurst’s method to calculate the measure by simply multiplying the type size by 30.

So if the type size is 10px, multiplying it by 30 gives you a measure of 300px or around 65 characters per line.

Next up is Leading, which is just the space between the lines of type in a body of copy, now a good rule with leading is to set the leading 2-5pt larger than the type size, so if you set the type at 12pt, a 15pt or 16pt leading should work well on the web.

body { font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:16px; }

<?php
$cats = explode("<br />",wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0&depth=1&style=none'));
$cat_n = count($cats) - 1;
for ($i=0;$i<$cat_n;$i++):
if ($i<$cat_n/2):
$cat_left = $cat_left.'<li>'.$cats[$i].'</li>';
elseif ($i>=$cat_n/2):
$cat_right = $cat_right.'<li>'.$cats[$i].'</li>';
endif;
endfor;
?>
<ul class="left">
<?php echo $cat_left;?>
</ul>
<ul class="right">
<?php echo $cat_right;?>
</ul>

Hat Tip: WP Recipes.com

Well if so all you need to do is open up your sidebar.php file and add the below code to it and hay presto you now have the top 5 most commented posts on your blog.

If you wish to have more than 5 items all you need to do is change the 5 on line 3 to the number you wish to have.

<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5");
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
<li> <?php echo $title ?> {<?php echo $commentcount ?>}</li>
<?php } } ?>
</ul>

Also if you don’t wish to show how many comments there are on each of the posts just delete:

{<?php echo $commentcount ?>}

Hat tip to ProBlogDesign for this great piece of code.

For example, transform these UK-format dates (dd/mm/yy) into US-format (mm-dd-yy)

Contents of dates.txt:
28/07/99 – first date
13/06/00 – second date
06/07/01 – third date
08/12/02 – fourth date

A quick command line perl script can perform the transformation automatically for every date in the file whilst retaining the remaining contents of each line:

perl -ne ‘print “$2-$1-$3$4\n” if $_ =~ /([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{2})(.*)/’ dates.txt > mod_dates.txt

Contents of mod_dates.txt:
07-28-99 – first date
06-13-00 – second date
07-06-01 – third date
12-08-02 – fourth date

Thanks goes to Fred..!

…It’s all free, yes you don’t have to pay anything unless you would like to donate something to them..!

http://lokiware.info/