Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

GNU date tutorial (Linux command line series)

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

date is part of the GNU Coreutils or core system utilities on a GNU/Linux system. It is a command line program that tells you the current date.

Basic usage

Just type the command date on the terminal:

[agronesia]$ date
Sun Jun  8 02:11:51 PDT 2008

It will display the date according to the system’s time zone, in that case PDT.

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Notepad++ HTML editing tag insertion (surround) plugin

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Notepad++ mascot

I use Notepad++ for my text editing need. To write my blog entries, I’m even handcoding my HTML using it!

It has neat features that makes it superior to Notepad such as a tabbed interface, internationalization (Unicode support and UI translations), and lots of text manipulation tools (HTML escaping, to name one).

One essential feature I miss when editing HTML using it is the tag wrapping functionality. That’s what the buttons in Wordpress’ HTML mode do:

Inserting a tag using Wordpress\' HTML editing mode

After asking around in the forum, I finally found the plugin I needed for Notepad++, WebEdit.

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