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.
Testing websites with Internet Explorer
Testing web sites with different versions of Internet Explorer has always been a bit painful. Sure you can use different machines, or virtual machines, but that all takes time. However, there’s a tool to take care of testing IE versions 5.5,6,7 and 8: IETester. Its free for private/commercial use, however for commercial use you should [...]
Copying very large files across a LAN network
I needed to copy a very large file (~25GB), a virtual machine disk across a network (LAN). Standard Windows copy isn’t great for this, and it kept on getting stuck. I also tried using the copy/xcopy commands but they weren’t much help. The problem was a matter of feedback and recovery. That is, having the [...]
Local Web Development Servers
There are a number of great web development servers available that you can install on your PC to get straight into web development or trying out various web applications without the hassle of installing and configuring your own server.
These include:
XAMPP – Apache-MySQL-PHP and Perl server (its portable too)
WAMP Server - Apache-MySQL-PHP for Windows
InstantRails – An [...]