E-texteditor vs Notepad++

I’ve been using notepad++ as my text-editor of choice for several years now and have been relatively satisfied with it. It does everything I want, but I’ve also heard a lot of good things about e-texteditor which has “the power of textmate on windows”. I’m not a fan of Apple products but have heard so many good things about textmate that I thought I should give it a try.

Both notepad++ and etexteditor allow users to import user created bundles. This is great because I make web sites using ExpressionEngine (EE) and having EE tags color coded ... Read More

Texter Pack for ExpressionEngine

Yesterday I watched a screencast on text expanders by Jeffrey Way and my brain immediately went into overdrive. I just loved the possibilities. It’s such a timesaver being able to program hotkeys that will work in any program. get texter here

I have already started working on an ExpressionEngine code bundle to share with the community. This bundle will include some basic html short cuts as well.

My plan is to hit up the ExpressionEngine docs and go through it section by section adding in default/suggested code via short cut. Currently I’ve ... Read More

Thoughts on Support Email

Almost everyone receives email support from various web sites and companies. The problem with all of these different companies is that the name associated with the email is almost always Support. This includes various forums, message boards and blogs. When recieving emails from all of these different entitites it is usually difficult to determine which company/web site sent the email until opening it.

For the end user, that’s me, this is confusing and a potential waste of time. Different forums and support emails have different priorities for ... Read More

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Review: Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong

I heard some buzz about Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong, by Rachel Andrew & Kevin Yank and decided to order the book through Sitepoint. I ordered the hard copy as I don’t like reading on screen. Upon recieving the book my initial reaction was; this book is small. The page size is small and there are only 111 pages many of those with screenshots.

it is now up to designers to move the web forward. The opening chapter breifly discusses the history of browsers, design for layout, the implementation of CSS and issues designers have had with ... Read More

Not Impressed

I downloaded Google Chrome just like the rest of the development community today.  While everything seems to render correctly, I find the interface lacking and was not impressed when I clicked the maximize button and the browser fails to maximize correctly on my 22” vertical profile monitor (I use this one for browsing and coding). I can’t see myself switching any time soon, but will keep it installed for development purposes.

I just did day 2 of the hundred pushup challenge. According to the schedule I should have done 12, 12, 10,10, xx I ... Read More