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” [...]

Desktop Regexr

And here’s the info on the desktop version:
gskinner.com: gBlog: RegExr Desktop Released: Regular Expression Tool in AIR
I just uploaded the desktop version of RegExr. It’s just an AIR version of the online application for now, but I’ll add some desktop specific features, and put up a nicer looking page when I have a chance.
With this [...]

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 [...]

Other helpful shortcuts and tips for both os x and windows

Mostly notes for reference. Although Ctrl+F2 doesn’t seem to work without first going somewhere else like the dock with Ctrl+F3. Odd… maybe something I broke already.
Keyboard – XvsXP.com, Mac OS X vs. Windows XP
Most special characters can be typed with the help of the option key. Use option when typing a letter or [...]

Other helpful shortcuts and tips for both os x and windows

Mostly notes for reference. Although Ctrl+F2 doesn’t seem to work without first going somewhere else like the dock with Ctrl+F3. Odd… maybe something I broke already.
Keyboard – XvsXP.com, Mac OS X vs. Windows XP
Most special characters can be typed with the help of the option key. Use option when typing a letter or [...]

Another note on debugging Flash with Flex

Neato. Just making notes but it’s good to see.
BUT REMEMBER TO SET “Permit debugging”. Drove me crazy for a while until I saw I hadn’t…
Big Bad Code » Blog Archive » Using Flexbuilder to edit and debug Flash Applications
Now you have the full power of Flexbuilder to code and debug and [...]

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 [...]

Debug Flash CS3 with Flex Builder

Lots of info on using Flex Builder to edit, but not so much on debugging. Just taking some notes.
Using FlexBuilder 3 to debug & edit Flash CS3 projects « The Morphic Group
Recently I was working on a project that due to a requirement had to be compiled in Flash CS3. Having spent the last few [...]

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 [...]

Flex, SWFObject, history and deeplinking

A nice template for Flex for incorporating SWFObject, history, and deep linking.
Just Flex: Swfobject 2.1 Flex template. HistoryManager and DeepLinking supported as well
I have been using Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject for a long time. I think it will be useful to share my index.template.html that tuned for using with SWFObject 2 2.1. I was inspired with [...]

Simple AS3 tooltip

Just want to keep a reference to this one
Tyler Egeto
I’ll be releasing more tools and helpers in the near future as I formalize / clean-up my existing code libraries. In addition to the ActionScript pagination system released earlier this month, PaginatorAS3, today I’m release a small Tooltip system.

Remember to check your emoticon path for Expression Engine!

Getting ready to move a site from dev to production. I often use Charles just to make sure paths are doing what they are supposed to do. I had done an initial test moving from localhost to an actual IP address just to run through the process. I got everything except emoticons and it took [...]

Python and PHP serialization

I have some data that I am pulling via Amara. I need to put that in a database. The app that uses that data is in PHP and would prefer the data to be serialized. Fortunately, there is help!
Scott Hurring: Code: Python: PHP Serialize implemented in Python: v0.4b
This is a python implementation of [...]

Notes: Photoshop Sparklines Script

Tufte Sparklines Photoshop Script | La Photo Vita
Sparklines can be hard to produce. Most graphing packages are designed to produce large graphs or charts, and it can be very hard to generate the wide-but-thin lines for incorporation in documents. This was the motivation for writing a Photoshop script that would automate the production of sparklines. [...]

Notes: LOMO Photoshop script

Flickr: Discussing Fake-LOMO Adobe Photoshop Script in Technique
I saw that there are some PS actions for doing LOMOing but they don’t seem to handle multiple sized images well. I threw together this PS script to handle multiple sized images as well as non-flattened images.

Notes: Photoshop recursive save to web script

Ovidiu Predescu’s Weblog: Recursive export to Web in Photoshop CS3

Yesterday I was looking for a way to take a subset of the pictures I
have and convert them to JPG. I want to use the JPGs on a small Mac
Mini to make presentation in FrontRow using a newly acquired Canon SX7 digital projector (more on this [...]

Good AS2 class for textfields

Just taking a note on this. It looks quite useful.
Easy Custom Scrollbar Class for TextFields (AS2) | Taterboy.com: Graphics, Multimedia and Such
Here is the twin brother of the Easy Scrollbar MovieClip Class
that works with TextFields. It does not require the masking and is
perfect for Input TextFields. It has all the features of the MovieClip
version except [...]

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 [...]