Internal IP address from Alfred
If you use the Powerpack with Alfred you’ll know you can use addons. I’ve just made one that will find your local IP address and copy it to your clipboard. The trigger word is 'loip’.
Download and use at whim!
Dec 2011
Jun 2011
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Auto delete Dropbox public files after 2 weeks in OS X
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Mapping escape to clear searches in Vim
Quick pref to map escape to
:nohso you can clear searches more easily, because typing:nohevery time is a pest.
Feb 2011
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Archive your Git repo easily
I’ve just had to back up a load of Git repositories, and it got pretty annoying tapping in their names every time. You can use this command to zip up your repository into a tar file that will sit next to your repo.
Jun 2010
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Flickr short URL bookmarklet
I was getting annoyed with the whole view source > find canonical link > copy shenanigans when trying to get a Flickr short URL so I’ve put this little chap together.
Feb 2010
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Dan Wellman's jQuery UI 1.7 book
The jQuery ui is essentially a set of pre built, ready to use JavaScript widgets based (obviously) on the jQuery framework. They can be really useful straight out of the box, or as the foundation for something more complex, and they also come packaged with a decent set of CSS themes.
According to Dan Wellman himself, his book is written for…
...front end designers and developers who need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript ,and will need to be comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of the jQuery UI.
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Delicious and Fever sitting in a tree
I use delicious a lot, and I’ve been using a very small network with no real enthusiasm, until recently that is! I found myself becoming lazier and lazier with my delicious bookmarks, frequently just scavenging my network’s bookmarks for interesting things and saving them to my own. The ...
Jan 2010
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Wanted!
Yesterday it was announced that I’ll be starting a new full time gig at Erskine Design as their new front-end developer. I’m absolutely thrilled to bits to have won the role, and equally so about the possibilities it opens up for me: working with that team.
It does ...
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ExpressionEngine plugin - retrieve custom field info in your templates (saef)
This plugin will let you retrieve all custom field info for use in stand alone entry forms or anywhere else. If the field has options there’s a variable pair for that. There’s no restriction on formatting either so you’re free to use it how you will.
Nov 2009
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URL ABC
A nice little idea from Tim Van Damme:
A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.
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NME's top 50 albums of the noughties on Spotify
The NME have compiled a fairly comprehensive list of the greatest albums of the last decade, and although I’m not sure I’d agree with all of them, I do with a lot. So helpfully I’ve created a Spotify with all of them on. I suggest you whack it on random and enjoy!
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ExpressionEngine entry excerpts outside of the search page
If you need to use an excerpt for an entry perhaps inside an entry loop with several weblogs this plugin will automatically select the correct excerpt field then format and truncate it to a specified length.
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jQuery UI 1.7 book by Dan Wellman - a precursor
Dan Wellman has just launched his new book about the jQuery UI and his publishers have sent me a copy to review. I’ll have more on that later, but I’m certainly looking forward to reading it; here’s how he describes the book
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Flaws in quantifying online advertising success
the number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen from 32% of Internet users in July 2007 to only 16% in March 2009, with an even smaller core of people (representing 8% of the Internet user base) accounting for 85% of all clicks.
Interesting stuff there indicating an 'alarming’ drop in click through rates. Jack goes on to talk about how advertisers are using these figures to express a flaw in the system, and how they are wrong to do so.
Oct 2009
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ExpressionEngine 2.0 & CodeIgniter
no longer is ExpressionEngine limited to interacting with extensions or modules. No, with CodeIgniter entire applications can interact with your ExpressionEngine install.
That is very very exciting news. Surely that sneaky little tid-bit is one of the most important parts of this new launch?
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Web users don't read
It’s a theme I’ve noticed in many books and usability blogs.
The plain fact is users will not read anything you put on the screen.
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Political debate and Twitter
Watching BBC’s now infamous Question Time with the odius Nick Griffin last night I found myself constantly refreshing my Twitter feed to see what my friends were saying. I was taking part in an audience debate outside of the studio, in real time and thoroughly enjoying it.
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A brand new website
Out with the old and in with the new! My old site was a couple of years old, and I’d thrown it together over a day or two, it has served me well but it’s time for a change. I’ve also switched to ExpressionEngine, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
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ExpressionEngine autocomplete search / jump menu with jQuery
This tutorial will show you how to build an text input that will give autocomplete / auto suggestions via AJAX straight from an ExpressionEngine template then redirect straight to the entry. It could be used for searching, or shortcuts to particular entries, I have it working for the latter on a recent project. It will allow you to …
- Start typing parts of an entry
- Scroll through the autocompleted suggestions that pop up
- Click one (or use the keyboard shortcuts)
- Get redirected to the relevant entry on the relevant page
Sep 2009
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Getting .hidden files to appear in the Textmate project drawer
There are instructions available if you want to view various type of hidden files like .htaccess etc. but none for if you just want to see all files beginning with a “.”.
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Change the bundle / language activation shortcuts in TextMate
There are shortcuts to change the current bundle you’re working with in TextMate (usually ctrl + option + shift + {first letter of bundle title}.) It’s useful if you’re switching between say a PHP and a CSS file and TextMate hasn’t automatically switched.
Jan 2009
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TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor with TinyBrowser file browser in ExpressionEngine
Extending ExpressionEngine with a WYSIWIG is a fantastic way to make edting your weblogs a lot easier. There are also some powerful file browser / management plugins out there too and in this post will see how to add both to your expressionengine site.
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Extending the jQuery Sortable With Ajax & MYSQL
I’ve had a lot of response to the jQuery sortable list post I wrote a while back, and a lot of them ask how to send the results to a database. I’ve often said the best thing to do would be to update it by AJAX, but I’ve never really explained how. So here it is!
Aug 2008
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Led Zeppelin iPhone / iPod Touch Wallpaper
I have just combined my love for both Led Zepellin and my iPhone by making a wallpaper in Photoshop. Feel free to download it and use it yourself!
Jul 2008
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ExpressionEngine - Removing index.php
ExpressionEngine ships with no URL rewriting, and that means that every page on your ExpressionEngine website will be prefixed with index.php. To remove the .index.php from each page you’ll need to do some URL rewriting. ExpressionEngine have some documents detailing how to remove index.php From URLs on their website, but they don’t cover if you’re hosting your site from a subdirectory (www.mysite.com/subdirectory/expressionengine/)
To remove index.php from your pages, just create a file in the root of your ExpressionEngine install called .htaccess. This will tell Apache how to rewrite the url to remove the offending prefix. Here’s how to do that:
Apr 2008
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jQuery Sortable Lists With Drag Drop Handle
this post has been extended in the new Extending the jQuery Sortable With Ajax & MYSQL post
I’ve recently made use of a drag / drop style list that will remember the order of the list. If you use the standard jQuery sortable items, you’ll get the two following problems:
- You won’t be able to click on any items in the sortable list you have
- You’ll probably want an update of the order of the list after every change.
I did find a solution to the problem over at Scott Sauyet’s site, but I needed a little more… The following example will do both, it uses the handle and update options on the .sortable item. By adding these simple items you can produce a pretty advanced sortable list. You could even add AJAX into that update command and automatically update your database with the new values every time you change then removing the need to refresh, and that’s very web 2.0.