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Recursively Download Folders using FTP with wget in UNIX (even SSH)
Okay, so you don’t have SSH access to your server, but you do have FTP access to it, and you need *all* the files in a folder. Worse, your directory structure is many levels deep, and extremely messy. Normal FTP won’t cut it, because command-line FTP doesn’t do recursive downloading of folders. Turning off interactive […]
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Checking your website speed
It’s interesting to know that even though the Internet is all one big connected web of sites, not everyone sees the same thing. For example, based on your location, Google directs you to a Google datacenter nearest to where you are, and the results that you get may be different from someone else living elsewhere […]
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Windows CMD Command Prompt Windows Keep Closing (Or Doesn’t Stay Open)
I was having a hard time with command prompt windows when I created and ran my batch files – they wouldn’t stay open and kept closing before I could see its output. Then I discovered the PAUSE command – by adding this command to your batch file, you’ll pause the window for as long as […]
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Formatting a Decimal Number to 2 Decimal Places in Java or JSP
I was looking around for the class to format a number to 2 decimal places while I was coding Java, or specifically JSP, and I found it. First, you need to import the DecimalFormat class, so have this line at the top of your Java file: import java.text.DecimalFormat; Or if you’re running JSP: And here’s […]
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HTML Button That’s A Link
Making your own link button with your own custom text is easy. You might want this because it looks different from a normal HTML link (you know, the blue underlined text). Here’s how the linkable HTML button looks like: Sometimes you might want a linkable HTML button because it fits into your overall design look […]
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Leitner Flashcard Learning System
In the early 70’s a German psychologist named Sebastian Leitner devised a learning system that makes selective learning possible with less effort than the traditional method of studying a set of flashcards sequentially. Leitner’s system consists of a cardboard box separated into a number of compartments. The compartments are filled with flashcards and the flashcards […]
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Free Flashcard Learning
Ack! I found this great learning application 😀 It’s called jMemorise. And best of all, it’s open-source software! jMemorise is a Java application that manages your flashcards by the famous Leitner system and makes memorizing facts not only more efficient but also more fun. It manages your whole learning progress and features categories, statistics and […]