Archive for July, 2005

Alt-Tab for Macs

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Witch is a neat little utility that gives you Mac Switchers an Alt-Tab key combination to switch applications.

[link via Eric D.]

IE7 Clearing House

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Shaun Imnam is keeping a great collection of links on IE7 Reviews and Resources. The list is actually a dynamic document that keeps growing, so you may want to visit often for the latest news.

Linux Command Line Tips

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Here is a nice collection of Linux command line tips. If you use Linux even on only a limited basis, these tips will certainly help make you a bit more productive!

New Fonts From Microsoft

Friday, July 29th, 2005

This post has been removed at the request of Microsoft’s lawyers.

Real World Rails Projects

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Interested in Rails Development? Check out these two open-source projects and delve into the Rails code that powers them.

Actually, both these projects are very functional as well. I’m running both of them at my work place and use them on a regular basis for managing my tasks and source code snippets!

The Neglected Software Market

Friday, July 29th, 2005

37signals, the people who brought you Basecamp, Backpack and Ta-Da Lists suggest on thier blog that The largest neglected software market is for businesses with between 2 and 10 employees. They suggest that if you are looking to build a web application, that you look at this market segement as a target audience.

Friday Video

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Balancing is a very cool video that will help you relax and get ready for the weekend!

I Like Your Colors

Friday, July 29th, 2005

I Like Your Colors is a neat little web app that will display the colors from your favorite website. The app searches for color values embedded in the site’s CSS files then displays a swatch.

Rails on Eclipse 3.1

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Here is a nice how-to on setting up Eclipse 3.1 for Rails Development. If you have yet to try Eclipse, you should take a look. It is one of the best free code editors I have ever used. Some great features include:

  • Code bookmarking
  • Cool code navigation options
  • Built-in tasks
  • Subversion integration (via a plugin)
  • Extremely extensible

Over the past month and a half, I have pretty much quit using Dreamweaver in favor of Eclipse. I realized that I was pretty much using Dreamweaver as a plain code editor and not using it’s WYSIWYG features, so it was a bit of overkill.

The Last Page of the Internet

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Awesome! I finally reached the end!

The Last Page of the Internet