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Index of pages filed with the "Programming" tag (listing records 1 to 10 of 21):
- Komodo IDE Ported to Mac OS X
(Date: Fri 4-Nov-2005 | Comments: 2 | Permalink)
It's a great day for Mac OS X Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby (with Rails support), Tcl and XSLT programmers. ActiveState has finally released Komodo, the award-winning IDE, for the Mac OS X platform. I previously mourned the absence of Komodo for OS X, so imagine ... (continue reading) - Switching
(Date: Wed 9-Feb-2005 | Comments: 19 | Permalink)
Today I have finally succumbed to temptation and placed an order for an Apple Power Mac G5. I expect to take delivery on Friday (11th-Feb-2005). I've been a prospective "Switcher" for some time, so this move will come as no surprise to regular readers ... (continue reading) - Technical Weblogs
(Date: Tue 25-Jan-2005 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
I need to feed (pun intended) my hunger for technical weblogs and add a few more feeds to my blogroll. I am particularly interested in weblogs that cover the following topicsSoftware DevelopmentCPerl / mod_perlRuby / RailsApacheDatabases / MySQLUnix ... (continue reading) - Firefox Search Plug-in for Koders.com
(Date: Thu 18-Nov-2004 | Comments: 3 | Permalink)
I have created my first search plug-in(s) for Firefox. The plug-ins add search options for Koders, a search engine for source code. Koders enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open ... (continue reading) - Blocking the Referrer Spammer
(Date: Mon 15-Nov-2004 | Comments: 13 | Permalink)
I have mostly passed under the radar of the Referrer Spammers, but my invisibility spell has gradually depleted. This past weekend (13-14 Nov, 2004) my access logs recorded 187 hits from referrer spammers. I'll admit that 187 hits isn't a lot, but I usually ... (continue reading) - Fonts for Programming
(Date: Wed 6-Oct-2004 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
An interesting little item popped up on Forever Geek last week (1st Oct, 2004) entitled, "Fonts for Programmers". I work with source code (or plain text) all day long, be it Perl, C, JavaScript, PHP, (X)HTML or CSS. It stands to reason that I should give ... (continue reading) - Perl Development Environment
(Date: Tue 17-Aug-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
"A craftsman is only as good as his tools," claims the familiar adage. Of course, it depends on how you define "good". In the field of computer programming, "good" could refer to the quality of the programmer's code, or it could refer to that same programmer ... (continue reading) - Working with Meteorological Data
(Date: Mon 9-Aug-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
I am always impressed when I see real-time data on a website. I am even more impressed when such data is used imaginatively. Thus Dunstan Orchard's panorama and weather information have long intrigued me. Out of curiosity, I investigated the possibilities ... (continue reading) - Back from the Gates of Hell
(Date: Mon 12-Jul-2004 | Comments: 0 | Permalink)
I've spent the past week performing a bug-purge on Shapeshifter, the underlying CMS behind the Urban Mainframe. During this time, I virtually cut myself from the distractions of the Internet. I didn't start my email client (and, by proxy, my newsreader ... (continue reading) - The Ultimate Comments Handler (Beta)
(Date: Wed 9-Jun-2004 | Comments: 24 | Permalink)
I've listened to your feedback and scratched my own itches. The result is a collection of routines that, for myself at least, represents the ultimate comments handler and I am proud to present it for testing ... (continue reading)
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