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March 9th, 2010
Essential tool for debugging web services. You can monitor HTTP request headers, returned status codes and content.
This is a double clickable version of the classic Apache TCPMon utility. I simply packaged the program’s files into an application using the Jar Bundler utility that comes with XCode developer tools.
Take a look at the tutorial on how to use it. TCPMon is most commonly used as… Continue reading
May 11th, 2009
This is an essential plugin for developers who are frustrated with debugging plugins and themes with print_r statements. This plugin displays log messages from PHP in the browser console in Safari and Firefox (with firebug). You no longer have to work blind when your templates don’t render properly. Just place a log statement and examine the code right on the browser. Continue reading
April 30th, 2009
Have you ever wanted to edit the web pages that reside on your commercial web host like they were on your own desktop? Wouldn’t it be nice to mount your entire remote website host directory on the desktop with a nice disk icon? Now you can drag and drop files into it without leaving the Finder. You can also edit files remotely without downloading, editing and uploading. This can be a huge improvement in workflow, and you don’t have to keep track of local and remote versions of files and the inevitable versioning headaches. This post shows you how to combine three free tools to setup this workflow. Continue reading
March 24th, 2009
This is a WordPress plugin that adds a sidebar widget to display 12seconds video status updates. For those of you who are familiar with Twitter; 12seconds is like Twitter, but with video instead of text updates. You can also embed the widget in posts and pages using shortcodes. The widget itself is essentially a video player. It uses the widget embed code (need to login) provided by 12seconds.tv. The plugin saves you the hassle of copying and pasting embed code and editing templates. Continue reading
March 14th, 2009
One of the really cool things about WordPress is that when you want to extend its functionality, more often-than-not, someone has already written a plugin for it. However, in my case, the available plugin didn’t do exactly what I wanted. So, I decided to write my first Wordpress plugin. Here I describe the basic but very important concepts that a novice plugin developer needs to learn. Continue reading
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