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January 2008
3 posts
Rubular →
A Ruby regular expression editor that lets you preview what your regexes will match - very slick!
Jan 20th
Customising Colours in Leopard Terminal →
Have started using TerminalColors now, instead of ColorTerminaleopard (previously mentioned) as the latter wasn’t playing nice with screen (which I use on a daily basis).
Jan 12th
TerminalColoreopard →
I’ve used TerminalColoreopard to customise Leopard’s ANSI colors (creating a nice “Vibrant Ink”-ish colour scheme). No more squinting at that blue on black…
Jan 10th
December 2007
6 posts
ModalBox →
ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs.
Dec 19th
Rak →
Rak is a grep replacement in pure Ruby. It accepts Ruby syntax regular expressions and automatically recurses directories, skipping .svn/, .cvs/, pkg/ and more things you don’t care about.
Dec 18th
Pimping up Camino
Camino is my default browser now; the memory and CPU hog that is Firefox has been relegated to times when using FireBug is absolutely necessary. There are a few things however that make Camino feel a bit more “Firefoxesque” : Open up System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts and add these for Camino : “Bookmark Current...
Dec 18th
Action Mailer Layouts. →
CardboardRocket’s action_mailer_layouts plugin helps keep your email templates nice and DRY.
Dec 13th
GimmeSomeTune →
I love seeing the floating window with cover art and track info while I work - I’ve removed GrowlTunes, preferring to have the window always visible and have removed Last.fm because GimmeSomeTune scrobbles!
Dec 13th
1 tag
SynergyKM GUI and Keyboard shortcuts for switching...
There has been one thing that has been missing for me from the excellent SynergyKM GUI for mac : keyboard shortcuts to switch screens. Today, Lorenz Schori, one of the core developers let me in on this hack : Navigate to Library/Preferences and open net.sourceforge.synergy2.synergyd.plist either with the “Property List Editor” if you have developer tools installed or with...
Dec 6th
November 2007
7 posts
1 tag
Sogudi Beta for Leopard →
This plugin brings Safari a little bit closer to Firefox with keyworded bookmarks. Yay!
Nov 24th
Eye-opening documentaries →
Three free documentaries exposing the manipulation of a select few over the masses. Whether you believe the facts or not, the “evidence” is compelling.
Nov 23rd
1 tag
Ruby on Rails Finite State Machine Plugin:...
Note: This is a summary of this article - the page is unaccessible at the time of writing Installing Finite State Machine ./script/plugin install \ http://elitists.textdriven.com/svn/plugins/acts_as_state_machine/trunk/ Using Finite State Machine class Person < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_state_machine :initial => :sleeping state :sleeping state :showering state :working state...
Nov 22nd
1 tag
Disable Leopard Spotlight from the menu bar
If you want to get rid of Leopard’s Spotlight from the menu bar, simply open terminal and run: sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app To re-enable it you just have to run: sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
Nov 20th
SSHKeychain not needed in Leopard →
Nov 9th
Terminal in Leopard
I’m loving the new terminal in Leopard. We finally have tabs! Time to say goodbye to iTerm …
Nov 8th
1 tag
Finite State Machine Plugin →
For managing models that have a “state” - the transitions between different states look neat.
Nov 5th
April 2007
1 post
Fix backspace in remote shells in iTerm
The backspace key seems bust by default when in an ssh session. To fix, run this command in iTerm : defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString xterm Thanks atomized Update : a simpler ways is to add this line to your .profileexport TERM=xterm
Apr 10th
March 2007
5 posts
Turning on vi-style editing in script/console
You can turn on vi-style by entering the following line in your ~/.inputrc file : set editing-mode vi Thanks slash7!
Mar 31st
Using double quotes for HTML attributes in HAML
For some obscure reason, HAML uses single quotes to surround HTML attributes by default. Of course, you probably want double-quotes in your HTML files ;-) Just paste this line in config/environment.rbHaml::Template.options[:attr_wrapper] = '"'
Mar 28th
TextMate GetBundle Bundle →
The easiest way by far to install and update bundles in Textmate is to use the GetBundle Bundle. Once installed, it provides a GUI for browsing and installing bundles from the Textmate bundle repository.
Mar 28th
Convert a table's character set and collation to...
Character encoding is probably my singlest biggest gripe with MySQL. To force a table’s character set and collation to UTF-8, use this command : ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Mar 22nd
Quick developer reference for CSS, HTML,... →
Gotapi is a cool little ajaxified api hub - it’s deadly having so many good resources in one place.
Mar 21st