Following the previous post, we will see today how to check the syntax for JS. In this case we will need a bundle wrote some time ago by Andrew Dupont here. (read the article , scroll down and download the bundle).  Install the bundle. In this moment you are almost good to go, as the bundle [...]

A nice “hidden” feature that Textmate has is to check the syntax of the php files you are writing and display a popup with the result. How to do this? Open Bundle Editor, search for the PHP bundle, scroll down until you find the Validate syntax command. Edit the Save setting to Current File. Now, [...]

As the guys from Mozilla say “The JavaScript shell provides a simple way to run scripts in batch mode or an interactive environment for exploratory programming.” So basically you can create some tests for you app based on javascript without needing a browser, but using rhino. With Mootools is a little complicated, as it needs [...]

Everybody knows SVN and “everybody” is using it. No doubt SVN is one of the best things that happend in the last time. but for a web developer, svn can be a little frustrating – at least for me. Let me explain: I am on a mac, a G4 one,so I cannot afford a MAMP [...]

Kroppr is an unobtrusive script that willenhance any site that wants to offer an image cropping tool for its visitors. Unlike other scripts, Kroppr is able to ROTATE, zoom and move the image in the real time without using plugins – flash or java. The actual picture crop is done after the user is satisfied [...]

Some coders are doing a living from selling php scripts. Nothing new here. But to protect themselves from piracy they need to encode the php code to prevent stealing, unauthorized usage and so on. This can be accomplished using various encoders, some strong , some weak that will give them a specific amount of security, [...]

As I promised in the previous post I will show you how to add any script or program to run normally from command line to dock or desktop and run as any other application. For this we will use Platypus. Platypus “can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted [...]

If you are a web developer you are forced to run multiple operating systems, to check your code and design in as many browsers as possible. Well, the main problem is the IE – as it always do strange things…. This can be done using a virtual machine, or multiple computers. The first case can [...]

After searching through editors for Os X that can work as close as possible to Quanta – my former editor in linux before I switched to mac – and not founding anything close, or better said close to my habits – I finished choosing 3 editors – Coda, skEdit, and TextMate. Coda is nice but [...]

There’s been a long time since i posted, but i had a very limited time in last month. Meanwhile I managed to buy myself a mac – I always wanted one. So now Im in a kind of dilema. What tools to use for webdeveloping ? My area of expertise is PHP, Javascript – Mootools [...]