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October 2009

ToDo – emacs php

add hook for php mode -disable ‘ show-unmatched-syntax minor mode ‘ -enable php-electric-mode by default.

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Changing the appearance of Emacs MuMaMo (nxhtml/php)

If you don’t need an explanation of MuMaMo, here’s the gist – do  M-x customize-group [return] mumamo [return] This brings up the group customization options for MuMaMo. Among other things, you can change the definition of ‘MuMaMo Background Chunk Submode Face’ and ‘MuMaMo Background Chunk MajorMode Face’.  If you haven’t worked with Emacs Customization groups [...]

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Portable Ruby and Rails installs (Windows)

If you are developing on windows and need to use Ruby, or Ruby on Rails, AND you want to install to a portable drive. I have found 3 options thus far. 1. Instant Rails (no tweaking required, works if you just install to your portable drive) 2. FlashRails (worked, but I began using InstantRails for [...]

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Making windows command prompt more visually appealing

If you are doing development on Windows, you should use the Consolas font.  If you’re on XP, you can refer to this post to get it to work. If you are on Vista, you should already have Consolas. After you have Consolas installed, you can start using it in the Windows Command Prompt.  Here is [...]

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Easy show / hide with JavaScript and CSS

Easily show and hide content using JavaScript and CSS. If the demo on this page does not work, another version of the demo is here:http://cdia.zhannes.webfactional.com/js/toggle.php

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Consolas font on XP without visual studio

http://www.shareware-beach.com/2006/11/the-consolas-font-for-programmers/ As detailed above, if you try to install consolas on XP it will tell you it depends on Visual Studio.  If you don’t want to download all that, you can just download the .net sdk and install.  Then download consolas and install.  Links to both are in the article above. Sweet.

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WAMP install tutorial

Still best resource I’ve seen for installing wamp http://guides.jlbn.net/setwamp/setwamp1.html. This time around I had some problems because Microsoft’s IIS was running on port 80 which is where WAMP wants to run…  This results in a password prompt when you try to access http://localhost/ Can kill MS IIS by going to Control Panel (classic view) -> [...]

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Magpie: Stupid simple rss parsing

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ For school we are doing small tech presentations where we share facts.  I figured it would be cool to aggregate my presentations on the domain i’m using for school.  Then I thought, it would be nice to just use my regular blog and then display the posts that relate to class/tutorials.  So after researching [...]

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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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