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Programming and productivity enhancing tools

grep is a beautiful tool

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Global Regular Expression Print is a staple of every command-line user’s toolbox. As with find, it derives a lot of power from being combined with other tools and can increase your productivity significantly.

Following is a simple tutorial that will help you realize the power of this simple and most useful command. If you are on Windows and haven’t already, download and install Cygwin. If you are also new to regular expressions (regex), here is a great regular expressions reference to get you started.

Tutorial

Suppose we want to search for duplicate functions in all of our JavaScript files. Let’s start basic and work up to it. This technique can be used to search for a TON of duplicate items like:

  • Duplicate HTML IDs
  • Check how many times a CSS class is used
  • Duplicate java classes
  • many, many more…

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Quick Tip: Editing layout in Firebug

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You already know that Firebug is quite possibly a web developer’s best friend. You also know that you can edit pretty much anything with it and see results immediately. We can add one more thing to that list today.

You may not have known that you can also edit the values in the layout pane as well! (You can find it on the right side of the HTML tab) This makes it even easier to adjust the layout of a block and see the results. As a bonus, if you press the up and down arrow keys while editing a value the pixel value will adjust by one pixel in that direction. One note on this though, you can’t specify values in anything other than pixels (sorry fluid layouts).
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Early Adopters: Your Firefox 3 chrome tweaks are HERE

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According to my poll about 1 in 4 of you readers have already switched to Firefox 3 and almost everyone else will switch after their extensions are compatible. I am considering switching myself but before I do I need to tweak the heck out of it like I tend to do.Firefox 3

Now after a bit of searching I really couldn’t find any good resources out there for tweaking Firefox 3 stuff so I thought I should create one and share it with you!

So here I have compiled a list of Firefox 3 only userChrome.css tweaks. Here are instructions if needed. Continue reading →

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