Web Developer Extention
If you are a web developer of any sort, you need Chris Pederick’s Web Developer extention for Firefox. (WHAT? You’re not using Firefox? Ok, then, you need to back up and get Firefox. Go here first.)
If you have Firefox installed, go to Chris’ site and get the Web Developer extention. I honestly do not know how I survived this long without it.
Some of the things it makes easy and quick:
Displays anchors
Displays cookies
View HTTP Headers
Validate CSS & HTML
And a whole lot MORE!!!
This is the best, most worthwhile extention I have seen EVER! I would go so far as to …
Wordpress Sidebar Images Hack
In my current theme (a mod of a mod of Kubrick which is becoming less of a mod and taking on a life of its 0wn), I wanted to change the headers in the sidebar to images. This was because I wanted to make use of a typewriter font so the headers would look like this:
I wanted these headers to be specific only to this theme so that I could still easily and fully switch themes. In doing this, I ran into a couple of small, but interesting “snags” that caused me to have to …
Old Habits Die Hard
I have been a web developer for some time now, long enough to say that web developers currently entering the job market were probably entering junior high when I began working with web technologies. So most of you are either too young or too new to the Internet to recall anything other than IE as a browser. Hey, I recall back in the day we were all excited about Cello so we could browse on our PCs instead of Unix. Then came Netscape. And I was one of those die hards that didn’t switch to IE for quite some time. …
Google Maps Again
Something new that was added to Google Maps that is pretty slick - satellite images. If you’ve used the Google Maps and have not seen this, it is a choice on the upper right side of the maps. You can choose either “maps” or “satellite”. Some areas (like Chicago) you can zoom in all the way and get a pretty good view.
Try mapping to your home address, then select “satellite”. It’s pretty cool.
Or, try Googling for your phone number, then select “Google Maps”, then “satellite”.
Wikipedia
A pretty interesting tool for the web researcher is the Wikipedia. Set up as a comprehensive (and then some) encyclopedia in wiki format, you can find information on just about any topic, encyclopedic or otherwise. However, since it is a wiki, accuracy is not guaranteed. (If you’ve never heard of a wiki, that’s ok, not a lot of people have. A wiki is a web document (or series of documents) that are editable by the users at large.)
Also as part of the Wikipedia project, there are some other useful tools, including Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews. However, because of its open …
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