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Ubuntu Thoughts

Its been rather quiet around here lately, and for good reason. I got married and spent some time honeymooning with my sweetheart :) . All the while much has been happening in the linux and web world! I’ve not gotten the nerve to upgrade my primary machine yet to Ubuntu 11.04, mainly because I’m not [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 on the Way

Its that time again for a new version of my favorite OS, Ubuntu. It looks to be another exciting release with a major addition of Unity desktop. Head on over and download, install, and begin using it with some Gedit goodness! Then head back over here and share your thoughts!

ColdFusion Snippets for Gedit

Its rare that anyone uses Gedit for ColdFusion, but hey, I know one that does! First off I use Gedit because its quick, simple, and super extensible. I work in ColdFusion equally as much as PHP as far as the serverside goes, so I like a pretty consistent environment for both, which this editor also [...]

Creating Virtual Hosts in Ubuntu

I was doing my morning reads as usual when I came across an article on creating virtual hosts for apache on OSX. Well after reading the article I decided I’d mention that this pretty much works on Ubuntu as well. Only difference being the location of your config files for the virtual host in apache. [...]

Since all the functionality was already in place it felt only right to add a batch option to the Gedit Clientside Plugin. This new “batch” option allows you to choose several javascript or css files to minify, and place into one file. Its pretty straight forward. From the Tools menu under Clientside there are two [...]