Will Chatham

Why Linux is Bet­ter does
a great job of explain­ing the rea­sons for peo­ple who are not geeks. If
you find your­self try­ing to con­vince your grand­mother to run Ubuntu by
using ter­mi­nol­ogy such as “linux ker­nel”, “pack­age man­ager”, or “sudo”,
give up and send her here.

And speak­ing of Linux, here’s a list of Linux Com­mands I Hardly Knew, some of which you may or may not
know. I found a few time savers I had never known. More good com­mands
can be dis­cov­ered in the com­ments of the article.

If you are tired of cre­at­ing HTML tables (for tab­u­lar data only, of
course) by hand, here’s a quick and dandy way to do it online with a
tool called Kotatsu.

If you’ve been fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter, you will know I am quite the jQuery advo­cate as of late. jQuery is
a JavaScript library that rivals (and beats the pants off of) libraries
such as mootools and scrip­tac­u­lous, and can add all sorts
of dynamic, eye-popping and usabil­ity enhanc­ing func­tion­al­ity to your
pages. Just one of the pow­er­ful, grace­fully degrad­ing things that
jQuery can enhance is the CSS drop­down menu. Check out this arti­cle describ­ing how to enhance
the Suck­er­fish CSS drop­down menu with jQuery.

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about what jQuery has to offer,
check out 5
0 Amaz­ing jQuery Exam­ples.