Adding an external library to your Android project in Eclipse

Adding an external library (.jar file) to an Android project in Eclipse is accomplished by adding the external jars to the Java build path.  Here is the step-by-step procedure to do this (in the screenshots for this example I am adding the ZXing core.jar).

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Search and replace multiple files

Here is a very handy little perl command for making a simple edit to multiple files in a directory:

perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/g;' .


WordPress Permalinks not working

I’ve had several instances where Permalinks (SEO links) have not immediately worked on new WordPress installations, resulting in “Page Not Found” errors.  This is due to a configuration issue in the webserver (Apache, IIS, etc…).  The fix is simple but might not be obvious if you aren’t familiar with webserver configuration.

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