Archive for the ‘Software Dev’ Category
Online Development/Developer Communities
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky got together a little over a year ago to create I think the best online tech communities around. Somehow they where able pull it off which I commend them on their great feat, getting developers to work together!…if you have never heard of these sites, I highly urge you to go and start using these sites!
Online development communities:
My accounts on these sites:
Joel and Jeff have a great podcast as well that I am an avid listener too.
As well the Stack Overflow iPhone app is here!
iPad, iPhone, iOS development (Objective C Programming & Xcode)
Monday, May 17th, 2010Some great fast commands for Xcode development are:
Switch between code:
[option key] 1
[option key] 2
Indenting code:
[option key] ]
[option key] [
Switching code:
[option key] [command key] [up key]
Some great plugins are:
Any good videos I find on Objective C Programming for the iPhone and iPad I’ll post up here.
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Python
Thursday, January 21st, 2010I found this great video on learning python, Learning Python.
Eclipse
A great tutorial on PyDev.
Data Structures – Dictionaries
A great installer, it is like apt-get for linux:
easy_install
Great Plugins:
Eclipse Python Django Development
Monday, September 7th, 2009I do a lot of work in the Eclipse IDE.
Here are a few of my tips using that IDE–
Getting autocomplete in eclipse with the PyDev plugin, press the following sequence of keys:
f [control] [space]
(I’ll do my best to keep this post updated.)
Changing your hosts file in Vista
Monday, September 7th, 2009By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file.
1 ) Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
2 ) Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
3 ) Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
4 ) Click File -> Open
5 ) Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
6 ) Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
7 ) Select “hosts” and click “Open”
8 ) Make the needed changes and close Notepad. Save when prompted.
Learning from StackOverflow.com
Thursday, May 28th, 2009A website that I use all of the time for technical information is StackOverflow.com, here is a video on what that website does and how they can help out technically:
Website Development Tools
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Always find a good team that you can work with for coverting PSD files and indesign files to html, css and javascript, here is a good one that I know of call xhtmlized.
Site Design:
- zurb.com, a bit more expensive but they’ve worked with tons of startups.
- electricpulp
This is a great place to find stock photos for you sites
MS Windows editors:
- Notepad++, some tips can be found here.
Online resources:
- gomockingbird, one of the best wireframe tools ever.
- CSS Cleanup Tool
- HTML Cleanup Tool
- Blueprint CSS Framework (e.g. Example)
Firefox development plugins:
- Add N Edit Cookies
- DNSStuff Toolbar
- Netcraft Toolbar
- EditCSS
- Firebug
- Html Validator
- LinkChecker
- Server Switcher
- Total Validator
- View Cookies
- Web Developer
- YSlow
- IE Tab
- Page Speed from Google
- HttpFox, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
- Fiddler, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
Google Chrome plugins:
SEO Tools:
Certificate Verification:





