BASH command line history

Sweet. The page has more tips as well like getting partial stuff from your history. I don’t know how much of this will work on OSX but it’s still neat to see.
Access to command line history in BASH
To activate those two commands, add this to your .bashrc file:
bind ‘”\e[A”‘:history-search-backwardbind ‘”\e[B”‘:history-search-forward
Now you can easily summon any [...]

Finding domain name info on the command line

Nice. Even for funny domains like .name, etc. Quicker than pulling up an app or going to a site that doesn’t handle the edge cases.
How do I find the authoritative name-server for a domain name? – Stack Overflow
% dig +short NS stackoverflow.comns52.domaincontrol.com.ns51.domaincontrol.com.

Mac OS X XML editor

I think I may have stumbled on a neat XML editor that runs as an Eclipse plugin. I like it already! Simple things like formatting XML, autocomplete of tags and attributes already present, and……generating a schema from xml… interesting. Works well for my VERY minor usage so far…
Rinzo Xml Editor – Eclipse xml editor
Rinzo is [...]

Messy XML that needs a quick clean up?

Really neat and nifty. This is for when you have those one liner strings of XML in a log or something (like CharlesProxy’s response pane) and you want to view it all nicely. Normally CharlesProxy does an excellent job… for well formatted XML. At least some code I was working with really wasn’t well formatted [...]

Printing from OS X 10.5 to a Canon Pixma MX330 shared on a Windows XP box

Since there are no drivers available to print to a shared Pixma MX330 that I am aware of, I have been unable to print to the printer. And because there are no drivers that allow the DNS-323 to host the Pixma MX330 as well, that was out, too.
The following did work though, except actually printing [...]

And an example on how to use JSFL

And this is cool, too. I’m always looking for productivity tips and this is very cool. It really opens up a lot of possibilities.
deleteaso » Fix Textfields JSFL
Today Seb was having some issues when dealing with embedded fonts – read his post. He came up with some ActionScript ways to get around it. Well another [...]

Update multiple bitmaps at once in Flash CS3

Just wanted to keep a note on this for future reference. Very helpful!
onebyoneblog » Blog Archive » Flash UI Panel to Edit the Properties of Multiple Bitmaps
Basically, it’s just as I described – you highlight multiple Bitmaps in your .fla’s library, adjust the settings (allow smoothing, lossy/lossless, jpg compression quality), then click on the “execute” [...]

Flex based regex tester

I hadn’t seen this one before. There are other regex testers out there but this one is neat because it helps guide you. There are examples and tooltip help to let you know what you’re doing. Very neat. There is a downloadable version as well apparently. gskinner has been an indirect sort of long-distance teacher [...]

More on strongly typed references to timeline instances

And this states the issue well in a short sentence. Developing for Flash outside of the Flash IDE breaks into two camps if the “Automatically Declare Stage Instances” is checked or not. The solution mentioned below is another way (closer to the way I do) to get a reference not only as a movie clip [...]

Getting strongly typed objects from flash cs3

I have done this for AS2 using Flash Develop, and something similar to it using PureMVC for a Flash CS3 project developed within FlexBuilder, but it’s nice to see it “approved” of sorts. The issue? How do you access objects on the timeline in a strongly-typed manner. The blog post itself describes the situation well [...]

OS X list of os x shortcuts

Many I knew, some I didn’t. But the author is right that it helps. The Tips & Tricks page has some nice notes as well.
Dan Rodney’s List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes
I like to figure out the fastest way to do things. I hope these shortcuts will help you become the power [...]

Flash Builder 4 debugger is going to be even nicer?!

But we do have to wait until Flash Builder 4 is released. It’s in beta now but… well when I get some time…
mikemo » New Flex Builder debugger features: Conditional breakpoints, function calls from expressions, watchpoints, and more
I wanted to tell you all about some of the exciting debugger features we’ve been working on, which [...]

Generated getters and setters in Flex

So for this particular Flash AS3 project I am doing that uses Flex as the code editor, I was just about to write a getter/setter pair and thought “perhaps someone has made a way to automate this…”
Quick Google later…
No More Writing Getters and Setters in Flex
eokyere blog has one of the best Flex productivity tips [...]

grep instead of python?

I have an xml file with a listing of images that I need for a site. Typically I fire up IPython with Amara and do my xml wrangling there. But I also needed the files. I thought about using python to also grab and save the files but a little search led to this post. [...]

Getting an int from math calculations in javascript

Javascript – Casting to integer on arithmetic division… – Rexiology… – MSMVPS.COM

As Javascript been a weak-typed language, sometimes it’s not able to
cast a variable from one type to another. as in arithmetic division, if
one wants to output an integer instead of a double or else, here is a
way learned from this article that’s useful:

a = [...]

Overflow:visible IE6 bug workaround

I can’t believe it but it actually seems to work!
Is there any workaround to this bug (overflow:visible;)?

> #sidebar { overflow: hidden; }<br /> /> #sidebarContents { position:relative; }<br />

I simple have to check this out

openflux – Google Code
OpenFlux is an open-source component framework for Flex which makes radically custom component development fast and easy.

Adding a PHP nature to a project

I have a remote project already online and the PHP project type functions weren’t working, i.e. the PHP Explorer, the Outline view, Command(Ctrl) clicking an item to jump to it’s definition, etc. Those are really helpful! Not to mention auto completion! What was needed was the .project file on the server had to be updated [...]

Pythonic grep sort of

Looking for a way to crank through files and search for specific text within matching files. Found this and it’s very neat.
Python: find files using Unix shell-style wildcards « Muharem Hrnjadovic
The download though was a little hard to find so I just got the source tar.gz file from here:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/al-maisan/ubuntu/pool/main/s/scriptutil/
[update]In the end I tried grep which [...]

Using Charles to test a SWF from a remote location

I just wanted to make sure I keep this note handy. Charles is already very cool. This just makes it cooler.
Testing a SWF From a Remote Location (Deitte.com)
Map Local
allows you to map URLs to local directories. This means that you can
test a SWF that should be on a remote site. It’s incredibly useful [...]

Codeigniter Excel and PHP’s Spreadsheet Excel Writer Pear Package and how to not have to use PEAR

Well that’s a long title but it sums it up. I wanted to generate Excel from Codeigniter. Because of that I needed a way to use it whether or not PEAR is running/installed, etc. My local dev box doesn’t (yet) have it but that’s a story for another time.
The talented developers at Pizza SEO repackaged [...]

Custom Flex Calendar controls

I have worked with customizing the Flex calendar components and will probably need to do so again in the future, but this is pretty neat. I’ll have to look into this more soon.
Refreshingly new Flex Calendar controls « My journey in the world of RIA
Flex is a very flexible language and I’m here to prove [...]

Getting rid of the dreaded “can’t encode” errors with Python and MySQL and SqlSoup

So I was getting problems inserting data that has the ‘™’ symbol in it. Brutal stuff. Couldn’t find a way around it. Did it by hand in the end. Nasty. The problem was that I was getting
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘latin-1′ codec can’t encode character u’\u2122′ in position 12: ordinal not in range(256)
where the ‘\u2122′ is the ‘™’ [...]

Python Excel file reader

This thing is just brilliant! I am working on a project that uses PHP. But I still do my data mangling with Python because of tools like SqlSoup running under SqlAlchemy. Using those under iPython has saved incredible amounts of time. I actually like working with data in this way. It just makes it more [...]

Flash CS3 Open Source “Liquid Components” by Byte Array

I am just about to wrap up a project using Flash CS3 and… I wish I saw this earlier…
Liquid Components for Flash CS3 [ by Didier Brun ] < ByteArray.org
The “Liquid Components” have been created for the Flash people, freelance coders and designers who wish to integrate fully skinnable components in their website, [...]