I recently started adding ubiquity plugins for quickly looking up documentation while I am doing development. Mozilla has compiled a great list of ubiquity commands that can assist in programming language documentation along with other categories on their wiki. In addition to those listed on that site, I have come across a few other useful ones for programming languages:
I am by no means an expert at Emacs, however, while learning LISP I have picked up a lot of neat tricks that can be done in emacs to make editing much easier and faster. Below are a few resources and references I have found that have helped me discover all sorts of key bindings I had no idea existed.
One of my good friends has been telling me about synergy for a good while now but I never took a chance to try it out. After using it for only a few minutes I must say it is incredible. Synergy allows you to control multiple computers by setting up a server and clients; mouse and keyboard commands are sent to the server and then sent out to the appropriate client, allowing a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers, even with multiple operating systems. You can find a more detailed description of what synergy does here.
Setting up ...
This quick tip is a follow up to last week's Easily Navigate Tabs in Eclipse. In addition to being able to use find-as-you-type to change tabs in Eclipse, you can also do the same in firefox using Ubiquity. Just invoke Ubiquity using the key combination you assigned and type tab and begin typing. The matching tabs will begin showing up in the Ubiquity window. I'll admit that I do not use this feature as often as in Eclipse (I tend to favor COMMAND-SHIFT-[ and COMMAND-SHIFT-] to browse tabs); however, this is a very nice feature if you know ...
Often I am ridiculed because of the amount of tabs I have open in Firefox at one time. Unfortunately this habit also carries into other programs as well. Eclipse by design only gives you one row of tabs at the top (or bottom if you choose) of the editing window; as a result, not all the tabs will fit at the same time which makes it difficult to navigate with a mouse or by using COMMAND-F6 (Mac) or CTRL-F6 (Windows/Linux). Thankfully, however, there is another solution.
Pressing COMMAND-E (Mac) or CTRL-E (Windows/Linux) will bring up a menu (the ...
This is the first in a series that I am calling "quick tips". This will be much easier for me to put together than some of the more lengthy articles, although I will still be writing those as time permits. Without further introduction, onto the tip:
It can be quite annoying when you are at work and you need to SSH or VNC into your home computer only to realize that the IP Address associated with your domain name has adjusted. Currently I am on a cable connection where the IP will change once every couple of months, sometimes more ...
While finishing up landonaustin.com last week I ran into an interesting rendering issue when I checked what the website looked like in Internet Explorer 6. The decorative blue bar that runs under the title and navigation was a lot thicker in IE6 than any other browser. You can see what it looked like in IE6 and what it should look like below.
Wrong. The blue bar is as thick as the font size.
Right. The blue bar is the correct height.
I was able to set the height of the div to 100px and it would change size but ...
I have found that there are many creative ways to get around security. This is a pretty neat trick that probably will not work in most modern applications or operating systems, but it shows the creativity that can go into trying to find a loophole. The basic premise of this trick is to place the password across 2 different pages, one of which is already backed by ...
Pygments (http://pygments.org) is a very powerful, easy to use library that can help you with syntax highlighting on your blog or other documents. I am going to quickly show you 4 different ways you can use pygments to easily add syntax highlighting to your website. Pygments can be found in most package managers:
pygmentize is the command line tool that the pygments library provides. Here is a quick reference for common use cases:
This article goes along with travis-weber.com, a website I recently released where one of the top priorities was that it would be completely ajaxified, like gmail. This brought with it a couple of issues such as what would happen when people came to the site and did not have javascript? How would people be able to bookmark portfolio items and other sections on the website? I want to share how I approached these issues and the solutions I came up with so that if a user has javascript disabled or a user wants to bookmark a specific page, it ...
Welcome to my blog!
This is the first of many posts on this website. My goal is to provide resources and tutorials for primarily web development; but being interested in many different topics, there will be a lot of other information presented as well. It is my hope that by explaining my experiences I will help you avoid making the same mistakes and enhance your knowledge of the topic discussed.
To start out, I will give a quick overview of what powers this blog. In the near future I will be going into great detail on how I implemented the ...
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