Studio 12a

I just cleanly installed Mac OS X 10.5 tonight. Once I installed Mac OS X 10.5, the first thing I did as a web developer was to install my favorite Firefox plugins. Here’s a list of my essential plugins, what are yours?

Better Gmail 2

ColorZilla
DOM Inspector
Firebug
MeasureIt
ScribeFire
YSlow

In Wordpress 2.3, you can change the default thumbnail size by editing the following code.
Open /wp-admin/includes/image.php and look for the following code:
$max_side = apply_filters( ‘wp_thumbnail_max_side_length’,
128, $attachment_id, $file );
The number specified here (128 by default) is the maximum size of either dimension. Just change this to whatever you like.

I just installed ScribeFire, a Firefox plugin that let’s you post to your blog directly to your blog from Firefox.
ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, […]

Yes, bald can be beautiful but not when it’s associated with a developer pulling their hair out trying to find CSS styles are not used on a site. Finding CSS that is unused is a pain to say the least.
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox plugin developed by SitePoint to find usused CSS in stylesheets. […]

Subversion (SVN) is a very robust version control system offered by Tigris.org. Subversion offers hooks that can be triggered at various points of the commit process. These hooks can be used to trigger external scripts to perform various tasks. Examples include sending an email about commits and using SVN Notify Mirror to mirror changes to […]

The article “The Unofficial How-To of Open Source” on the website of “Enterprise Open Source” is an interesting analysis on reasons for adopting an Open Source strategy and tips on running an Open Source Project.
Open source software is shifting the software industry into a new paradigm, moving from developing proprietary code behind closed doors […]

My first online article for developer.com came out this week. The article is titled “10 Cool Things You Can Do With JavaScript and YUI“. It’s around 3000 words and includes a working prototype with a source-code download for the lightbox technique using YUI.
Do you have an article suggestion or something web related you would like […]

In a recent podcast of boagworld, I heard a brief mention of CSS Frameworks. Creating reusable CSS has been on my to-do list for about a year now, but ‘the list’ of to-do’s keeps growing and somehow this never got to the top of the list. Luckily, I found that Mike Stenhouse already published an […]

I love reading LifeHacker.com. In a recent article, they describe 15 ways to optimize Firefox including limiting RAM usage, keyboard shortcuts (some were new to me), smart keywords for search and deleting urls from your address bar history.
I found that the article was written with the PC in mind, but Mac users generally know how […]

I just came across activeCollab, which used to be an open source collaboration and project management tool. activeCollab is similar to BaseCamp from 37 signals.
activeCollab is written in PHP, runs unlimited projects, supports tagging, global search (including uploaded files), comments, milestones and more. It’s currently free software and was recently completely open source. However, it […]