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Sometimes its the little things that annoy us so much on the Unix command line.  One big question for me was… How to do you differentiate between directories and files when recursively chmod-ing?

The answer is simple.  But of course there are different ways to do the same thing.

Using the find command

find -name '*' -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

NOTE: the -name ‘*’ parameter is used to keep from modifying the present working directory or ‘.’ directory.

find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

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Nice, Simple, Sensible CSS Framework

BluePrint CSS is a nice, simple, and sensible CSS framework. It greatly reduces CSS development time by providing a solid base on which to extend. Really Cool!

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zarzax blog engine moved to Wordpress::

Over the last few weeks I decided to move from Drupal to Wordpress. I’ve always liked Wordpress and is near impossible to beat as an Open Source blogging platform.

photo credit: seanosh

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