NotePad++: my new favourite editor
For a long time I’ve been using PSPad which is a very good free text editor for Microsoft Windows. I’ve always known about NotePad++ which has always been a great text editor (and its open source). However, I’ve never been able to fully justify the switch from PSPad to NotePad++.That is until I started Ruby [...]
Guide to Git on Windows
Found this site: An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows for us poor folks on Windows that want to use Git for version control Its a good walk through on how to use the major features in Git with plenty of helpful screen shots.
Sidebar Category Links in WordPress
Turns out its pretty easy to add a new category sidebar link in WordPress if you aren’t using a sidebar widget. For example, check out the new Useful link area that I’ve added to this site to list any articles I’ve written that may be considered useful. To do this, I opened up the Sidebar [...]
Embarrassment Index
I was pondering (always dangerous) the other day about being embarrassed in social situations which eventually led me to the idea of an embarrassment index: a number between 0 and 1 that essentially is the level of embarrassment you feel when in public. Further to this, I was thinking, what exactly flips the embarrassment switch. [...]
Picking color schemes with kuler
Just discovered Kuler today. Looks like a great tool for picking a color scheme for a web site. You can also create your own (but you’ll need to signup for a free Adobe account to save it).