For some reason directions for clearing the Squid proxy cache (in Windows) seemed hard to come by on the web, so I thought I’d post them here. Hope this helps someone:
Anybody who uses Twitter has heard of auto-follow services for Twitter. Below is a PowerShell script I used to auto UNfollow. The script goes through the people you’re following and eliminates “idle” or “spam” friends. An idle friend is determined by a low friend count or low status count on an account that has been […]
Here’s a TruncateAtWhitespace function that takes an incoming parameter value and an incoming max length, and returns a substring broken at a whitespace position. This way if you have “Lance has a blog” and you need to truncate it to 8 characters or less, you get “Lance…” instead of “Lance ha”.
The IPhone browser (and some other browsers/email clients/plugins) will automatically detect phone numbers and style them. This automatic styling might not look so hot, so its best to always explicitly style phone numbers yourself, if possible. Here’s the basic method: <a href=”tel:555-555-5555” class=”phone_number”>555-555-5555</a> The “phone_number” css class should have, at a minimum in my opinion: […]