Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

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, [...]

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 [...]

I recently read an article about turning the “asynchronous-ness” up a notch. His reasoning was very good, response times keep users on the site longer. Lets go in to more detail. Ajax requests allow users to stay on the same page, while the site contacts the server in the background. This may be to post [...]

For those fans of Gedit and Clientside plugin it is time for you to update! The plugin now has updated versions of CSSLint, JSLint, and JSBeautify. As you may know Clientside Plugin provides several utilities to Gedit for working with CSS and Javascript, including minifying, formatting, and error checking/lint. Also as a bonus it can [...]

Everyone needs to test emails for web applications, but it turns your inbox into a mess. Not to mention constantly refreshing your web mail and clicking Send/Receive. You struggle to find the broken html, and viewing your text and html alternate versions just takes too much time. This is where Email Dissector comes in to [...]