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My Standing Desk 16 hours ago

Many years ago, when I was drafting for a living, I stood at a table much like this one for most of the day. I had a stool but when working on large drawings standing was usually required. Then along … Continue reading →

OpenCF Summit 3 days ago

OpenCF Summit is one of those conferences that I want to attend but life always seems to get in the way. I won’t be able to make it again this year but that doesn’t mean you can’t go! :) For … Continue reading →

Projects In Sublime Text 2 last week

In the past I’ve always been working on just one project so I have never explored ‘projects’ in Sublime Text 2. Today I needed to work on multiple things so I broke down and discovered how projects work. Like everything … Continue reading →

Sublime Text 2 – Format SQL last week

I’ve posted before about formatting SQL in my IDE. I always inherit code where the previous developer formats their SQL different than I like. Currently I’m suffering from ALL CAPS SQL. My eyes! My eyes! I immediately hit Package Control … Continue reading →

cfObjective – Code Reviews 2 weeks ago

This will be my third time invited to speak at cfObjective and my second year presenting! (yeah, I know that doesn’t add up) I’m excited to be presenting about code review. In the past there were things the majority of … Continue reading →

mRemoteNG – Putty + RDP (and more) Connection Management 2 weeks ago

In my new job I’m accessing a lot of remote machines. Windows servers via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Linux / Unix servers via SSH. I have both the Remote Desktop application and Putty available but managing all these connections … Continue reading →

Ethervane Echo – Clipboard Manager 2 weeks ago

If you’ve come to one of my ‘tools’ presentations one thing I talk about is using a clipboard manager. I use a lot of software from Donation Coder, including Find and Run Robot and Screenshot Captor. Recently in their newsletter … Continue reading →

TODO Support In Sublime Text 3 weeks ago

One of the big things I was missing from Eclipse was TODO support in Sublime Text. Now thanks to the awesome community of plugin authors this has been resolved. Check out SublimeTODO. Extract TODO-type comments from open files and project … Continue reading →

Sublime Text – Quick Indicator for Tabs vs. Spaces last month

I was running through some code today in JSHint and it was complaining about “Mixed spaces and tabs.” What? I always use tabs so I was curious where the spaces where… Sure enough on looking there were spaces! Doh. Then … Continue reading →

Finally – Firebug Can Be Positioned On Any Side Of … 2 months ago

The latest Firebug (1.9b1) allows the Firebug pane to be positioned on any 4 sides of the browser (as well as detached)! I have a widescreen monitor and have much more width than height real estate. Install the latest beta, … Continue reading →

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