There's not been that much in the world of software that I've as eagerly anticipated as the release of the beta for Disco. Made by the same people that made appZapper disco is a CD/DVD burning app like no other. The interface is certainly eye-catching, but at the same…
The other day I needed to get data from a form and manipulate the "get" manually through javascript. For that to happen I needed to obtain the action attribute of the form. The action of this specific form had to be a relative url. What I found through…
The aim of this article is to give a basic introduction into six shell commands that would be useful to any web developer that regularly works on linux or unix boxes. All of these commands are easy to use and if you aren't familiar with any of these commands I…
Occasionally you'll log into a remote server and find that the cursor keys echo characters when you are in insert mode using vim. Here's how to resolve it by modifying your vimrc configuration file: vim ~/.vimrc i (Enter insert mode) set t_ku= (now type Ctrl-V and press cursor up)…
Update: Mark has pointed out in the comments below that two fingered clicking is supported at a hardware level. If you you like two-fingered clicking then there's nothing to be gained by carrying out this tip. Intel macs are without doubt the absolute best machines for devloping websites with. With…
Today whilst I was working I noticed that my system (a MacBook Pro) had slowed to a crawl. To investigate I ran top from the terminal only to see this: I then noticed the following dialogue when I switched to iTunes: iTunes was updating my iPod with the few thousand…
We arrived back in England a week ago last Sunday, after a couple of days travelling up from Montfrin. We had a really good time, it's been a while since I've had that much of break from computers and the internet, and I really needed the break. It's always nice…
Opera Software are running a special event in London on the 17th October at the Metra Bar, Leicester Square. The evening will feature a presentation about the vision of the company and new features coming out in the future and is aimed at web designers, developers and end-users alike. The…
