Sunday, May 19, 2013

A Gist Search Workaround

OK I'm loving gist, but tis annoying that their own search engine won't let a user search among their own gists.

For example, if I want to search my own gists for a VBA script that helps find the last used row of a spreadsheet, I have to go through gust by gist.

Luckily, google indexes my gists...so I can do this:

VBA last row site:https://gist.github.com/stevehenderson

Code Snippet Resources

Here is a nice run down of code snippets from Cameron at SmashingMagazine:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/21/45-excellent-code-snippet-resources-and-repositories/



Saturday, May 18, 2013

Gist Rocks!

I'm using gist as my main code snippet repos:

https://gist.github.com/stevehenderson


Pages Gadget added but not visible

I tried to add the pages gadget, but it wasn't visible.

Here's the fix:

On the blogger control panel, click the Pages button on the left, then look for the Show Page As option..change it to something other than Do Not Show:


Thanks to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgBez2wKVTU