May 21st, 2007 | Published in Blogroll, Tools I Use
Freeware utility (with versions available for Windows and Linux, too) that allows you to simulate in real time what people with common forms of color blindness will see. (Via Cameron Moll.)
Another app I like to use for this is Sim Daltonism
(Via Daring Fireball.)
May 5th, 2007 | Published in Blogroll, Code Development, JavaScript/AJAX, Tools I Use
The full release of Prototype 1.5.1 has been released, and if you are on the 1.5 branch you should upgrade.
Lots of great features but if you also use http://script.aculo.us/ you will either want to wait or use the latest beta of it since there are some conflicts, one being that a function from script.aculo.us got moved to prototype.
(Via Ajaxian Blog.)
March 18th, 2007 | Published in Apple Dev Tech, Code Development, PHP, Software, Tools I Use
Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide:
It’s so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety%u2014its half-life, if you will%u2014they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the community itself. They are the Help Vampires. And I’m here to stop them.
SO RIGHT ON IT HURTS
January 1st, 2007 | Published in Apple Dev Tech, Tools I Use, Unix
Developers, and some power users who are reading this have probably heard of launchd. It’s Apple’s ‘mama process,’ responsible for launching other processes at startup, login, at regular intervals, or on demand. If you open the Activity Monitor application, and view ‘All Processes, Hierarchically,’ you’ll see that there are only two top-level processes: kernel_task, and launchd. The kernel sits there and does its thing, while launchd spawns all the other processes that make up your Macintosh computing experience.
Some good insight into this relative newcomer to Mac OS X as a way or launching and running services of various kinds in the background, some good notes on the things that don’t work quite as expected (bugs) and some ways it is used now. Also some links to two of the editors for launchd files.
(Via Red Sweater Blog.)
January 1st, 2007 | Published in Tools I Use
December 7th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll, Code Development, Tools I Use
There have been a lot of these, but here is one more.
Got API has a fast api search that can query across a lot of the APIs that you use day to day. You select the APIs that you care about, and search away.
Nice easy here are some of what I have checked now. * CakePHP @ cakephp.org * MySQL @ mysql.com * Struts @ struts.apache.org * css @ msdn.microsoft.com (ok not! just kidding) * Prototype.js @ www.sergiopereira.com
What do you have checked?
(Via Ajaxian Blog.)
November 20th, 2006 | Published in CSS, Tools I Use
Scott Nicholas spotted a funny joke in CSSEdit 2’s app icon. Perfect humor for CSSEdit’s intended audience.
Thanks that icon is classic. Love this app and for this css numskull it is a great tool
(Via Daring Fireball.)
November 7th, 2006 | Published in Apple Dev Tech, Tools I Use
TextMate for Projects with Both HTML and Code:
I don’t know how many find themselves in the the situation of working on a single project that involves HTML, CSS and Objective-C, but I do. I feel it’s worth pointing out how TextMate is invaluable for this sort of thing…
nice little summary of the kick’n text editor
(Via Theobroma Cacao.)
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