Keith Bentrup’s Portforlio

I always preferred accessing assets from the web root like this <img src=”/images” /> or in my css as url(/images). Simple, consistent.
However, when forced to delve a little deeper, I had to make some additional distinctions.
First, “/” starts at the web root (obviously), but what’s the root if the page is accessed by the filesystem [...]

I found discovered a couple sites that I want to share this morning.
The first is Commandlinefu.com. There are some really great gems here.
I also appreciate the twitter feeds for their most up voted (thus most useful) commands.
+3 votes
+10 votes
Also I’ll be watching this WP plugin. It looks very promising, but until I get some time [...]

A couple of useful snippets to use in the console ….

// sometimes you want to quickly count all elements in a page
// to see how heavy it is. when you have more elements,
// it takes longer to search all of them in your RIA
document.getElementsByTagName(‘*’).length;

// add a stylesheet dynamically
// this can be useful when diagnosing a [...]

Notes:
Marissa Mayer of Google talks about a better, faster, stronger web.
4 key elements of search
-comprehensiveness
-relevancy
-user experience
-speed
Web Index (pages) @ Google
1999 – 30,000,000
2009 – 300,000,000,000 (*10K more!)
Searches per day
1999 – 100,000
2009 – 1,000,000,000
UxD – how does Google make Google better?
A-B Testing!
Scenario: # Results: 10, 20, 30?
Users said “Give us 30 results per page”.
However, [...]

Because I’m prone to forget some of my useful, extended, piped commands, I though I would post a few:
Search specific file types for phrases, print the line numbers, dump the errors:
find -regex ".*\.ext$" | xargs grep -n searchText 2> /dev/null
Search specific files and mod only matching files via sed (creating .old backups)
find -regex ".*\.ext$" | [...]