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Gedit Clientside Plugin

For all of the gedit nuts out there (like myself) who develop css and javascript, I have created a gedit plugin just for you. The Gedit Clientside Plugin. This plugin can minify and beautify javascript and css. Also for javascript you jsLint is included. Finally for good measure, I threw in a gzip method as [...]

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..) [...]

Its Ubuntu Time Again!

It’s that time again! Time for Ubuntu’s next release, 10.10. It looks like there will be several new, exciting changes, including the latest GNOME, Evolution, and Shotwell replacing F-Spot. Not to mention some more polishing to the Ubuntu Software Center!

Ready or Not, Here Ubuntu Comes!

As many of you know I use Ubuntu on a daily basis. All of my web development is done with it, unless I’m forced to develop something on a Winders platform. It seems though Ubuntu 10.04 is already upon us and I’ve hardly noticed! Well.. it’s nearly here.. Ubuntu has upgraded Gnome, the kernel, new [...]