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How to move your domains off GoDaddy

Its common internet knowledge that GoDaddy is one of the worst, most unfriendly registrars out there. Go to NoDaddy for all sorts of nasty things that GoDaddy that make them completely disreputable, or google “godaddy sucks” for a thousand other reasons.
What’s less common is knowing how to actually get your domains off […]


Why Can’t I Show Line Numbers in “View Source” in Firefox

A simple request. I want to be able to show line numbers in view source for Firefox. It already has the pretty syntax highlighting, and fifty thousand developer friendly extensions - where is the line number option for view source?


Using Mac OS X Color Picker as a stand alone app

I was just about to post this as an open question, when I actually scrolled in the google results and found this handy tip:
Make the Mac OS X Color Picker into an application
That just makes the handy Mac OS X color picker that much better. Now I don’t need textedit open just grab hex […]


IDEA vs Textmate, and Rails 1.1 web services

Patrick has a well-reasoned comparison of IntelliJ IDEA and Textmate and how well this work with HTML/CSS. IDEA wins out for code completion and error highlighting, but Textmate wins for its light footprint and speed. Its good to see a balanced comparison of tools from someone who works with both.
Jamis highlights how easy [...]


CSS is Real Code, So Treat it as Such

It should be obvious, but its easy to forget for some of us coming from the "real" languages used on the server side. For instance, I never considered indenting my CSS based on parent/child selectors until I read this article. Why not? It makes perfect sense. We indent for clarity and [...]


Eight More Essential Books for Developers

A followup to my most popular post ever


Prototype and extending javascript’s Object or Array

James McParlane wrote a entry detailing why he won't use the Prototype library, as extending Object or Array's builtin prototype is bad.
However, Sam heard the complaints about how Prototype 1.3.1 was breaking existing code and other libraries, and the newer relases all use Object.extend() for safe extensions and do not change Array's prototype. [...]


web framework deathmatch: Rails vs Seaside

Glenn wrote recently about how to decide between Rails or Seaside.
[...Rails] is better in some ways, but Seaside is better in other ways. I think it's just that Rails' strengths address problems that are particularly frustrating to developers right now.
Rails addressing the problem of updating a relational database from the web, while Seaside focuses on [...]


Devboi: essential extension for web developers

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Finally, Devboi has been updated for Firefox 1.5. If you aren't familiar with it, its a sidebar extension that has full API docs for the following (from the homepage):

HTML 4.01 elements, attributes, and entity tables
CSS 2 properties, compatibility chart (IE 5 Mac, IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, Mozilla, Opera 5, [...]


Amazon wishlists suck

With the holidays approaching, once again I struggle negotiating my amazon wishlist to figure out what books I really want for Christmas. There are so many things wrong with the usability of the wishlists that its hard to know where to start, but Marc has a good list going with some helpful feedback on [...]


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