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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

american dad channels princess bride = hot

Just saw an awesome end to an American Dad episode, “With Friends Like Steve’s”. Steve’s friend Barry goes off his meds and replaces Steve as Stan’s son. Barry goes crazy and Steve has to trick him into drinking the poison / vitamins. Here is the original clip from Princess Bride, which if you have not [...]

Greatness from EBD #5

“I’m Just like you now Dustin, kinda calm and weak.”

Name servers on webfaction

First time I used one company for hosting and another for domain registry. If you’re on webfaction hosting you’ll need to input these name servers in the system of the company you registered your desired domain with. https://help.webfaction.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=70 Save you a second, webfaction name servers as of now are: * ns1.webfaction.com * ns2.webfaction.com * ns3.webfaction.com [...]

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