Archive for the ‘ tech ’ Category
I have only just now discovered a sweet new feature of Rails 2.0. Unit and functional tests have gotten a lot sweeter. I can now subclass ActionController::TestCase and do away with all the setup cruft that used to be there. Sweet! [ READ MORE ]
Even though I’m not a javascript noob, I still manage to learn something every day. To see if a popup windows has opened, the return value of the window.open call in javascript must not be equal to null. Simple and effective. linky [ READ MORE ]
My Adobe apps are bugging me and I regret ever having purchased them. I will make sure not to purchase one of their slow proggies ever again. [ READ MORE ]
My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace! [ READ MORE ]
Or: why I left Java. Here. [ READ MORE ]
Allrighty! The cat is out of the bag. Zed Shaw, creater of the Mongrel web server, has finally snapped! He’s always been a funny sort of guy, and I really do appreciate his style. Also, Mongrel is a fantastic web server even though I am using LiteSpeed myself. Anywho. Check out this rant from good [ READ MORE ]
Today I’ve written a small plugin that displays excerpts in Wordpress with style. Download it here. [ READ MORE ]
Ever used Fast User Switch on a MacBook and were greeted with an ugly bright / washed out and barely usable display? Here is the fix. Works! [ READ MORE ]
For web developers, there are so many cool tools right now it’s not even funny. Here are just a few. [ READ MORE ]
Today I released my first public Wordpress plugin: Custom Title. Just a tiny plugin that allows you to change the html title of any Wordpress page. [ READ MORE ]