Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Typing the Copyright Symbol on A Mac | Matt Westgate

Typing the Copyright Symbol on A Mac | Matt Westgate

Print Screen on a Mac

Article on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) about how to take screen captures on a Mac. Not really specific to web development, but it's still the sort of thing I'm bound to forget and need to look up again.


In short:


  • Command+Alt+Shift+3 = copy entire screen to the clipboard.

  • Command+Alt+Shift+4 = allows you to drag a rectangle and copy it to the clipboard.

  • Command+Alt+Shift+4 then Spacebar = allows you to point to a window and have it copied to the clipboard.

  • Command+Shift+3 = save entire screen to a new PDF file on the desktop.

  • Command+Shift+4 = allows you to drag a rectangle and capture it to a new PDF file on the desktop.

  • Command+Shift+4 then Spacebar = allows you to point to a window and have it saved as a new PDF file on the desktop.


Javascript libraries

Article on eDevil's weblog listing (almost?) all the main Javascript libraries.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Using PHPEclipse

According to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_PHPEclipse_:_Installation_:_Installing_PHPEclipse, you need to restart eclipse with the -clean option after adding stuff to the extensions and plugins folder. Could be why things weren't working earlier today!

Debugging PHP in Eclipse

This article has more information

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Open Source Icons

BlogThis - making it work with Firefox 2.0+

This post explains how to get older extensions working with newer versions of Firefox. You need to scroll right down to this comment to get the full details.

If you're running WinXP then you don't need WinZip - just rename the .xpi file to .zip, make the changes, then rename it back to .xpi. Probably worth keeping a copy of the original in case anything goes amiss.

If you've already tried to install this extension / addon then you will also need to modify "\extensions\Extensions.rdf". Edit the following section:
 <RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$7+zqw1"
em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"
em:minVersion="1.0"
em:maxVersion="3.0" />

... such that the values for minVersion and maxVersion match those in the "install.rdf" file within the .xpi file / package.

Once you're done, place the .xpi file into "\extensions" and restart Firefox. It should pick up the new extension and give you the opportunity to install it.

What 50 pounds of clay can teach you about design

This article on LifeClever illustrates the problems of perfectionism very nicely.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Running IE6 and 7 on the same PC

Woohoo! Micrsoft have finally released an official way to do this (and I've finally realised that they've released it, as I'm sure it happend a while ago while I wasn't looking).

Just need to get on and use it now!