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Archive for October, 2010

Good news all the way around with the new Mootools release. First off Mootools is showing off its fast new selector engine Slick. Second, Moopromptu (the mootools version of Impromptu) works with the new release! Recently I also moved Moopromptu over to Forge, so you can check it out there. My thoughts on the new [...]

Updated Gedit Minify Plugin

It didn’t take long to notice a couple changes which needed to be made to the minify plugin. With the amount of javascript development I’ve been doing I use it regularly. One change is the shortcut keys conflicted with other plugins which I use, so I changed them to the following: Minify JS: Ctrl+U Minify [...]

Timepicker addon has a new feature thanks to MK! Timepicker can now display a time grid under each slider, resulting in a more visual and accessible slider. Clicking the numbers in the grid will also jump to the specific time on the slider. Whats even better is that this is configurable! Timepicker has three new [...]

Gedit Minifier Plugin

I often find myself having to do a lot of jumping around to develop. I write the code, test, then minify, then copy files, etc.. I also have a strange interest in gedit, so I decided I’d create a quick little plugin to minify files for me. The plugin is dirt simple. While your file [...]

Zen Coding with gEdit!

Zen Coding is a fun tool for editors. Basically it allows you to type out a css selector, hit a key combination, and Bam! It turns into corresponding html. Doesn’t sound like all that? Well lets imagine you’re creating a complex form, or a table with several columns (a table for tabular data of course..) [...]