Domainr Blog: How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already Owns)
Background: We created Domainr almost four years ago, and since then many people have contacted us asking how to buy domain names that other people already own. We’ve not yet been through that process ourselves, so we asked our friend Julian Shapiro, founder of NameLayer, to write a guest…
CSS3 Test - How does your browser score for its CSS3 support?
If you’d like to know how your browser scores for its CSS3 support, you have to check out Lea Verou’s CSS3 Test. She announced the project yesterday on her blog.
Here’s screenshot of my browser, Google Chrome 16.0.912.77.
Lea actually planned this as an improvement to her interactive CSS playground called Dabblet (Source on GitHub), but it didn’t work out the way she planned, so she released CSS3 Test on its own.
If you haven’t yet, read her blog post about the project - she talks about how it works, using browserscope, how it doesn’t work on dinosaur browsers like IE8, and why she built it in the first place.
A word of caution the CSS3 test checks which CSS3 features your browser recognizes, not whether or not they are actually implemented correctly. Oh, and WebKit claims to support CSS3 background-repeat, but it is LYING.
If you’d like to add tests to CSS3 test, go to tests.js and follow the current structure. Also, there are lots of great conversations and comments about the project on Hacker News.
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Gitosis basic setup and usage
A Gitosis basic setup tutorial by Benjamin Kraft
The ultimate vim statusline utility
Powerline is a utility plugin which allows you to create better-looking, more functional vim statuslines. See the screenshots below for a demonstration of the plugin’s capabilities.
10 frequently asked questions about DNS solved with DIG
Everyday I have to deal with DNS queries, and I’ve noticed my colleagues and friends often ask me about the way to troubleshot their domain names’ zone (that’s what friends are useful for, no ?). I’ll try to document my process as clearly as possible in order to face that kind of problems.
BIND version from DIG
You could get the BIND/NSD version of a name server by sending this dig command:
dig +short txt chaos VERSION.BIND @…
You could have funny results with some TLDs
dig +short NS fr. | xargs -I% -n1 -P4 dig +short txt chaos VERSION.BIND @%
I loved this one!
You shouldn't ask a lady about her age :)
I’ve just pushed some pretty hefty changes to the jQuery.Gantt project I’ve been developing with lately. I tried some other Gantt libraries, but they were either dependant upon ExtJS, no longer maintained or just didn’t play nicely with my pre-existing code.
I settled on jQuery.Gantt, but there were a few things I found that really kept it from being an accessible, front-end developer friendly resource. For instance, you could previously only specify a URL as a data source, and not a local object. I needed to pre-parse another JSON feed before plugging it into the chart. There were also some conflicts when using the Twitter bootstrap, and the inability to place attributes on the Gantt bars meant no sexy popovers like below.
A lengthy list of changes follows:
- Reduced conflicts with Twitter Bootstrap by name-spacing styles
- Source now accepts data from a local object, not just a JSON call
- Can now extend data properties on to bars for use with Bootstrap popovers etc.
- Code is now “use strict”
- Fixed a couple of errors resulting from “use strict”
- Various English translations: renamed months and days to english, hollydays/holidays
- Redesigned buttons and slider with CSS3 and an image sprite
- Modified category colours and styles
- Made chart 100% width so it responds to parent container width
- Began enforcing front end dev guidelines such as double quotations (but singles on HTML strings), triple equals comparison and using spans instead of hyperlinks for JavaScript interactivity
- Updated demo page doctype to HTML5
- Moved body styles from stylesheet to page to reduce style conflicts
Bitbucket now rocks Git
BitBucket announces GIT support, with still unlimited free private and public repos.
git-dude: Lightweight Git commit notifier for Linux and OSX
You might have seen our post last year on Gitifier, the Git commit notifier for OSX. If you prefer something a bit more *nix-y, check out git-dude from Marcin Kulik. Git-dude is a command line utility that monitors Git repos and provides desktop notifications using Growl on OSX or libnotify on Linux.
Configuration is done in the standard Git way:
git config --global dude.interval 30 git config --global dude.icon ~/.git-dude/github_32.pngCheck the README for installation and advanced usage.
