Thursday, April 25, 2013

Census data for Zip Code Geolocation - MySQL inserts

I have extracted the data built by the US Census Bureau in regards to the general geolocation of a zipcode. This information is not exact-- but is exactly 'good enough for government work'.

MySQL-inserts-for-census-zip-code-geolocation on GitHub

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Sorting columns on Netflix

So, it is 2013 and jQuery makes sorting elements in an HTML table a trivial matter (jQuery sorting examples, tutorials, etc.). Add to that the fact Netflix is already using jQuery on their site and, furthermore, the specific page I am referring to (Netflix Instant Queue).

My instant queue, why are the columns not sortable?


The eclectic viewing selections on my Logitech Revue aside, you can see my cursor on 'Star Ranking' in the image below. That is the text selection cursor indicating that it does not have the interactivity I think should be there-- i.e. sorting on a column.


Netflix Screen Capture Showing Unsortability

Monday, January 14, 2013

Change Permissions by File Type

I recently have had to figure out how to allow others, the slightly privileged masses, to traverse my directory structure even if they cannot see anything or do anything with most of it.

find /directory -type d -exec chmod 771 {} \;


Where the /directory is where you want your search to start.

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