Have you ever been curious as to the common practices of others? I certainly have been. A friend of mine spotted a Google Javascript Style Guide the other day which gives a heads up for a lot of pre-defined practices that are being used. You’ll likely be familiar with a few of these, but you might just pick up a thing or two (I did).
Great Mac Text Editor
At work I’m constantly dealing with HTML, CSS, and JS files so a good text editor goes a long way. I’ve been using TextMate for some time, but recently a colleague discovered a text editor called Sublime Text 2. It does a lot of the same things TextMate does and even uses alot of the same TextMate bundles. Continue reading
History of Web Browsers
I checked into one of my social media accounts to find that a friend had posted an infographic of the history of web browsers. Whether or not you know the history already, it’s a nice presentation.
SOF Champs
I was looking around Stack Overflow tonight and decided I’d look at the people with the most “reputation” (reputation let’s others know how much a person has participated in SOF’s online community). I’ve seen this guy before- he seems to have a knack for good answers and intriguing questions. Check out Jon Skeet on Stack Overflow.
Today is MongoDB
I’m testing with MongoDB today and during my search to find out more about how to use MongoDB I found a neat little tool on the mongo website. It acts like a virtual environment to use mongodb, or you can type in “tutorial” and it gives you a tour of using mongo. Check it out.
Fable Engine
This site belongs to a great designer I know so I decided to highlight his site in this section. Take a look at the Fable Engine and awe at the inspiration that comes from looking at his work.
All Hope Is (not) Lost
I decided that Saturday was a good day to move my site from drupal.jacksonkr.com to jacksonkr.com. I figured that I would just copy the files and viola, right? Wrong. I had a disastrous DB incident where what could go wrong, did go wrong. Essentially, I lost my website. I quickly inquired of my host if by chance they had nightly backups. It turns out they had several. Approximately six a day. Continue reading
Using Grep To Find a Snippet of Text
Some developers know how to use grep well, other’s don’t. I’m one of the developers that only knows the basics of grep. For example: if I want to search a folder of 20+ files for a specific string it can be very tedious. However, grep makes this part of life simpler by allowing you search for a string in all files in a folder. eg. grep -lir “search string” /home/myfolder/
My First Real Attempt At Swiffy
I found an old AS2 file laying around so I decided to try it out with swiffy. It only kind of works. It would play out correct for about the first 5 seconds and then it broke (sad).
HTML Arrangement Framework
Check out isotope