Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Internet Explorer’s interpretation of CSS compared with all the other browsers sometimes bewilders me. To get Twitter Bootstrap to render at all like the other browsers, apparently it’s important that you have to specify the doctype, otherwise it seems to render layout related CSS all over the place. Just include this at the top of your source:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
I found this as an answer to this post on StackOverflow.
Once you’ve copied one of the Debian disk images to an SD card, you may have noticed that the disk image is only for 2GB and you have a lot of unused space on your SD card. The raspi-config util has an option (Expand Root FS) to resize your root partition for you. There’s also plenty of other utils to do the job. I used gparted from a gparted LiveCD booted on my Mac to resize my partition and it worked well.
$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Change:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to
iface eth0 inet static
Below this line enter the following, replacing x where necessary for your network config.
address 192.168.x.x
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.x.0
broadcast 192.168.x.255
gateway 192.168.x.x
Certain characters break XML or need to be escaped in HTML so they are rendered literally and not interpreted themselves as markup. There’s a few predefined character entities that are commonly used:
For other characters though, you sometimes need to use their Unicode encoded value. For example to literally display { and } in a JSP or JSF page (since they are used in EL syntax ${} and #{} ), you can use their unicode values like this:
There’s many unicode ref charts online, here’s one that I’ve used:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF