Monthly Archives: July 2008

Adding Newlines with sed

By | July 3, 2008
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Not realizing there was a surfeit of newline characters in a largish mysqldump file I was analyzing, I tried to open it in TextMate. After a few minutes of listening to the hard drive in my Mac thrash away, I had to kill TextMate. One obvious solution was to split it into multiple lines, but… Read More »

Setting HTML Input Field Focus on Load

By | July 1, 2008
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It seems pretty simple, but still far too many web sites don’t set the focus on the input field that users are most likely to type into when loading a page. Let’s say you have a page with an HTML form with the ID login with fields named user and password. Here’s the HTML and… Read More »