digital noise of Kieron Wilson

Hide the current working directory in terminal

2011-11-25 10:28:01

In Ubuntu as a default, the terminal prompt will show the current working directory, but as you dig deeper into a file structure you will have less and less space to type commands.

Adding a file extension to gedit in Ubuntu

2011-11-20 00:00:00

Using gedit as my default editor I needed to add a new extension for smarty templates.

Wordpress Plugin: Twitter Button

2011-07-14 10:02:26

Adds twitter share button to the bottom of single post

A better way to get a file extension from a string in PHP

2011-06-23 10:00:00

Here is a popular method to get the file extension in php, but under strict mode it will create a Runtime Notice - Only variables should be passed by reference

Twitter tweet autolink function in PHP

2011-04-18 00:00:00

This function will create links for #tags, @users, email addresses and urls.

Disabling autocomplete on html forms

2011-04-06 23:28:53

Most modern browsers try and help us out by adding suggestions to form fields from previous entries but as a developer that can sometimes be a undesired feature.

How to install MongoDB on Ubuntu Server 10.4

2011-01-09 00:00:00

How to setup and install mongoDB on the popular linux distro Ubuntu Server 10.4

Auto Discovery RSS meta tag

2011-01-04 00:00:00

The latest web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Safari) now automatically display an RSS subscribe button for website’s with RSS feeds. In order to get this button to appear you need to add an auto discovery RSS meta tag to your HTML.