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July 2009

Updated- IE8 Developer Toolbar

I hate Microsoft Internet Explorer. I don’t understand how that company keeps releasing web browsers that do not support the latest advancements in HTML and CSS. Also, they don’t support the same properties and techniques from one browser release to the next. I did notice, however, that the IE8 developer toolbar is more firebug-like than [...]

Ansuz

Ansuz http://www.ansuzcms.com/ I am giving up on Ansuz for now, was not worth the hassle. Was not even able to create and view a page. Page would not load. Other rails apps on my machine are running fine. If you care to install: Has a call to environment.rb to a gem “datanoise-actionwebservice”. This gem proved [...]

Amethyst

Amethyst http://www.hulihanapplications.com/projects/amethyst not so impressed. Out of the box, does not work. Very little information in the Install and ReadMe docs. Trying to access what I guessed was the admin area, gives me a nil object error. In any case, this app seems like it would be useful for blogging, but not so much as [...]

Rails blogs/cms: Radiant, Typo, Mephisto, Browsercms, Amethyst, Ansuz

Starting a series of blog posts on the following blogs and cms software: Radiant Typo Mephisto BrowserCMS Amethyst Ansuz any others I come across and have time/ energy to install and play with. I’ve been using wordpress a lot lately and while I really enjoy a lot of it’s features and themes, I like Ruby [...]

WP-Polls – A poll plug-in for wordpress

WP-polls is a pretty cool wordpress poll plugin, written by Lester Chan.  There are tons of resources on this plug-in, scattered across the webs.  But I find this read-me to be the best summary: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-polls.html This plug-in also has the option of using a widget… I have not experimented with that. PROS Install – Like [...]

Joel Bauer is hilarious

IE Tab Firefox add-on

Two cool firefox add-ons, but bad news is they are only for windows firefox users.  Good news is you can get VMWareFusion on your Mac and install windows and then take advantage of these tools. IE Tab let’s you switch from mozilla rendering engine to the IE rendering engine and thus see how the page [...]

Safari Developer Tools

There’s an easy way to get firebug-like tools in Safari.  From the terminal, run defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true Now you can examine html and css for the page you’re on similar to how you would with firebug. Position your mouse pointer over an element you want to look at. Right-click –> Inspect Element.  [...]

IE Developer Toolbar

This is a reminder for myself and others YOU CAN EDIT STYLES IN IE DEV TOOLBAR.  I don’t find IE Dev Toolbar at all intuitive.  Until recently, I did not know you could edit attributes, similar to how one uses firebug.  In fact I’d given up on it being useful it all b/c in researching [...]

useful wordpress plug-ins

before i forget, writing a quick post to remind myself to blog about these: -wp-polls -quizzin -user access manager

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posting data with curl from the command line

Before i forget, an easy way to test if you can connect to an external api is to use CURL on the command line. This nice as a sanity check/proof of concept to ensure you have the right token, proper field mappings, submitting the right data. This saves you from setting up a test form, [...]

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