It seems that every man and his dog is bringing out a netbook OS of some description. Jolicloud another that looks interesting – it appears to be a Linux-based OS with a netbook optimised UI. From their “First Look” screens, …
Read moreWhy is there no AND for regular expressions?
Here’s a Javascript regular expression which will match a string which contains at least one lower case letter: /[a-z]/ And another which will match a string with at least one upper case character: /[A-Z]/ I can even stick these together …
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I’ve recently been working on a XUL application, and needed to fade gracefully from one colour to another. One of the stumbling blocks was trying to work out what my start and end colours actually are – or more to …
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For a long time now it’s been possible to specify CSS colours as RGB triplets, using hexadecimal, decimal, or percentage notation. These all represent the colour white: #ffffff #fff rgb(255, 255, 255) rgb(100%, 100%, 100%) Lots of flexibility – perhaps …
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