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Care for a quick tour of the Clientside Plugin? Now, go get it! Clientside Plugin on Github

If you’ve been using the Sublime Text Clientside plugin I have great news. It is now in WBond’s Package Control plugin repository. This means you can install and update Clientside right from Sublime Text. If you have not used Clientside in the past in Sublime Text or Gedit, it allows minification, formatting, and lint on [...]

If you’re looking to do any web dev work with Caldav Calendar Events, you could be running in circles for a while. Classes and components for working with Caldav are often buried inside larger projects and require many other dependencies. Come to find out they’re not terribly difficult to work with once you figure out [...]

Open Blue Dragon has come a long way in a short period of time. They now offer a super fast way to get ColdFusion up and running on pretty much any machine for developement. On top of that it comes with a nice GUI. So how easy is it? Just download the package, unzip it, [...]

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If you’ve ever had to work with spreadsheets on a linux system, you may have stumbled across the PEAR Excel Spreadsheet Writer. Its a quite useful too, but installing it on your system may be a little misleading. Here’s the quick rundown: # install php-pear sudo apt-get install php-pear # install PEAR OLE sudo pear [...]

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