Shell scripts, JavaScript pedantry, CSS fixations, Java debugging, and the rest of the polyglotism.
We deployed our “Pemulis” version of K2 here on found_drama back in October; it has served us well but truth be told it carries a bit more bloat that we need. There’s the main style.css which carries hooks for plug-ins I don’t use (among other things) and then there’s Prototype and then there are all […]
Number 6 on my goal sheet for ’07 was to put myself into a position where I felt comfortable describing myself as possessing CSS mastery. I acknowledge that this is the most difficult to quantify. And even then, it isn’t really about CSS (which is easy enough on it’s own, I suppose) but how CSS […]
A. and I went out last night and did it up proper. Dinner out with some friends and then bounced over to the Half. Craig Mitchell was indeed playing there last night (and a right energetic set, at that) and thus did we get down. Dropped him a couple mixes, too. Hope he enjoys them. […]
For various reasons, I decided to give TextMate another try (as I may be hitting Smultron‘s upper limits). One of the reasons was to because I felt like trying my hand at a few Rails tutorials and TextMate is supposed to be the de facto standard editing environment for that kind of development 1 — […]
If you haven’t checked out Firebug for Firefox yet… DO IT NOW. That is to say: if you do any kind of webdev in Firefox, you should have this bad boy in your arsenal. Though I’m usually more of a Camino man myself, this little extension has put me into a Firefox renaissance these past […]
Reducing the pain of adopting a JavaScript library via The Web Standards Project (tags: webdev javascript essay todo)
Like Gruber, I recently took Stikkit for a beta period test drive. I’ve followed Rael Dornfest’s blog off and on for a couple years now and was curious about this whole new project that he was working on when he started values of n. Then when it was released to a public beta this past […]
How long does it take to produce a novel? via Charlie’s Diary (tags: publishing web essay blog todo) The “Lame Duck” Mayor MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics re: some VT politics (tags: Vermont politics history essay) Photosynth via Microsoft Live Labs (via LifeHacker) – – 3D from multiple 2D snapshots (!?) (tags: photography […]
Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby… via Smashing Magazine (modern magazine for web-designers and developers) (via aspiringlibrarian) (tags: web webdev ajax CSS Ruby reference)
RubyOSA (via TUAW) a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge (tags: AppleScript Ruby dev OSX todo) More Internet Preference Pane for OS X that allows you to configure what application handles the downloading of different file types. (tags: freeware Mac OSX software UI tools) MenuMeters via Raging Menace – a preference pane for OS X that allows you to […]