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Stephen P
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I've been programming professionally since 1984 in a variety of areas, from assembly language interrupt handlers to Java web applications.

I far prefer Unix based systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, over Windows — I've seen people spend hours of repetitive mousing around a GUI for what I can do in under a minute at a *nix command line... but I've programmed on Windows, OS/2, MacOS & OS X, a wide variety of Unices, and VMS

Currently doing web apps using Java, Spring, Hand-coded JSP/HTML[5], Javascript + jQuery, MySQL.

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Change color of sibling elements on hover using CSS
Sep 25, 2012
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How to write a shell script that runs some commands as superuser and some commands not as superuser, without having to babysit it?
Apr 19, 2012
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hide scrollbar and show on hover like facebook's new chat sidebar
Aug 19, 2011
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Showing scrollbars only when mouseover div
Apr 4, 2012
34
Putting hypertext link to external internet site inside javadoc
Sep 8, 2011
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How to turn off log4j warnings?
Jul 27, 2011
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VueJS conditionally add an attribute for an element
Mar 26, 2018
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Removing whitespace in Javascript
Mar 15, 2012
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Checking a string to see if it contains numeric character in UNIX
Jul 19, 2010
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Global variables in Javascript across multiple files
May 29, 2010
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For a single lengthy command, which code markup syntax is preferred?
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A canonical answer is not actually canonical; what to do?
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Document the Magic Link on the Relevant Help Page
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Unix 'grep' for a string within all gzip files in all subdirectories
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Why do so many forms use input masks in for input fields?
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Where does Google Chrome save LocalStorage from Extensions?
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Potential UX issues with password-less logins?
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RESTful key-value collection