Bash: How to loop through a list of terms containing spaces

Change the Internal Field Separator (IFS):

O=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for f in $(ls *)
do
echo "$f"
done
IFS=$O

Perl debugger basics

start the debugger with perl -d script.pl

• n - next step
• s - step into
• c - continue
• b 100 - break at line 100
• b sub - break at sub 'sub' (must be in the right file)

• { v - display the surrounding lines before each step

How could I do p "-" x 100; v in one step?

• w $var - watch variable $var (displays changed $var and stops)

XSL data types

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSL-Ref/Tutorials/Built-in-Types/bt1.html

<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:sch="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0"
exclude-result-prefixes=" sch">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:variable name="a" as="sch:integer" select="12"/>
<xsl:variable name="b" as="sch:float" select="12.123456789123456789"/>
<xsl:variable name="c" as="sch:double" select="12.123456789123456789"/>
<xsl:variable name="d" as="sch:decimal" select="12.123456789123456789"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Subversion basics

# checkout / create a new project

svn checkout https://example.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ example --username [username]

# submit a directory for the first time

svn import newdir/ https://example.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

# see all modified files in project

svn status -v

# submit modified files

svn commit

# diff

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -wB [filename]

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x --side-by-side [filename]

# move or copy, keeping history

svn mv [old file] [new file]

svn copy [old file] [new file]

# update your workspace to head
svn up /your-workspace

# update your workspace to a particular date
svn up -r {2010-11-14} /your-workspace

# ignore a file or directory
svn propset svn:ignore [file or dir] [parent dir]

Parsing HTML with Perl

HTML::Scrubber has replaced HTML::Sanitize

XML::LibXML has a parse_html method and a toString method.

Debugging XSLT

...is not fun:

<!-- DEBUG -->
<xsl:if test="$debug">
<xsl:message><xsl:text>--------</xsl:text></xsl:message>
<xsl:message><xsl:text>FUNCTION display-pagination-links:</xsl:text></xsl:message>
<xsl:message><xsl:text>--------</xsl:text></xsl:message>
<xsl:message><xsl:text>direction: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$direction"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:message><xsl:text>link_type: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$link_type"/></xsl:message>
</xsl:if>

less features

less 394 has ability to backspace on '/' search line

vim features

7.0.237 has highlighting of the text for which you're searching.

Basic CSS

* basics
#id = ID (mnemonic: I'd like some *hash*)
.class = class (mnemonic: polka *dots* are classic and classy)

* margin direction:
top right bottom left
(clockwise, starting from top)

* comments
/* this is a comment */
// this is not a comment!

* debugging
border: 2px solid red !important
or
display: none !important

* specifying elements:

html:
<ul id="list">
<li>
<div class="d1">one</div>
<div class="d2">two</div>
<div class="d3">three</div>
</li>
</ul>

css:
#list li div.d1 { //css }

--------------------------
http://robertnyman.com/2007/10/18/dont-over-specify-your-css-code/

/* Instead of this: */
div#container p.pre-amble{
margin-top: 1em;
}

/* Write it like this: */
.pre-amble{
margin-top: 1em;
}

/* Or like this: */
#container .pre-amble{
margin-top: 1em;
}

/* Instead of this: */
div#container div#header ul#navigation li{
float: left;
}

/* Write it like this: */
#navigation li{
float: left;
}

/* Or like this: */
#header #navigation li{
float: left;
}