Archive for June, 2011

I keep seeing mention of a few “preprocessors” for javascript and css, including CoffeeScript, Sass, and Less. I personally don’t see the need in these tools, but apparently they are all the rave at the moment. Essentially what these do is allow you to write in a more functional language/script, and compiles it down to [...]

It only feels right to include a lint method for CSS since javascript has had support in the Gedit Clientside Plugin from the beginning. The latest commit over on Github now includes CSSLint through the nodejs hookup. Don’t worry, if you had it working before all you need to do is update your plugin. The [...]

In a post just a week or two ago I covered the topic of searching select dropdowns on key events. It seemed to work ok, but could use a bit of polishing. However for the project I was working on I ended up needing something a little more… “Obvious”. So the solution I came up [...]

Its been a while in the making, I’ve finally gotten Impromptu into Github, something I should have done a long time back. I’m excited to see how it evolves now, as it has been at a very stable 3.1 for a while. Also I created a themes folder with alternate themes (cough cough.. if you [...]

So you’ve installed apache and the rest of your lamp system in Ubuntu, and you’re needing to do some configuring. You’ve got some virtual hosts you need set up and some modules you need enabled. You can dive into the config files and enable everything that way, however apache comes with some nice methods to [...]