Q: Using javascript, how would one turn this:
Some text in *bold font* and _in italic_.
into this:
Some text in bold font and in italic.
A: Regular Expression Extract and Replace
var sourceText = "Some text in *bold font* and _in italic_.";
var parsedHTML = sourceText.replace(/(\*([^*]+)\*)/g, "<b>$2</b>");
parsedHTML = parsedHTML.replace(/(_([^_]+)_)/g, "<i>$2</i>");
I’m a big fan of Ravi Shanker’s excellent VIM Reference Card. However since content on that card is ordered by commands alphabetically, sometimes it’s not very easy to find a command for what I wanted to do. So I made up this improved version of VIM reference card where commands are organized into categories: “Movement”, “Editing”, “Copy Paste”, “Completion”, etc.
I recently acquired a PowerMac G4 (800MHz, 768MB RAM, CDRW) and I want to use it as my computer at home. It runs Tiger just fine, but I wanted to put Leopard on it.
Attempt #1: External Hard Drive
Since the PowerMac doesn’t have a DVD drive, I naturally can’t use the Retail DVD to install Leopard. So I used SuperDuper to make a bootable copy of the DVD onto a external hard drive (and doing so would allow me to modify a installer config file that specific the Minimum CPU requirement). There is just one problem with this method: The PowerMac G4 wont boot from USB external hard drive — only Firewire ones — and I don’t have a Firewire external hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »
A Wallpaper Clocks package based on the blue Aurora wallpaper from Leopard Server.
I currently have the $25 Fido-to-Fido plan with misc. options. I did a bit of calculation and came up with this:
I think it still looks pretty good.
The version of shortcut reference on GMail’s website is too large to fit onto one page for easy reference. So I made a compact version here:
