Category Archives: Tutorial

VirtualBox on Ubuntu Jaunty for Testing Internet Explorer in Windows

I really loved using VMWare Fusion in OSX to test my webpages in Windows.  The power to just drag a whole Windows installation into the trash when it gets jacked up is intoxicating. Unfortunatly, Jaunty is still not supported by VMWare, and the bugs were just to much. Plus, I really didn’t like the [...]

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A list of HTML Snippets in Gedit

Snippets are extremely useful feature of Gedit that make it usable for TextMate fiends like myself. They work exactly the same as in TM: in Gedit go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins and put a check next to “Snippets”. Now open, say, an html file, type body and press TAB. Gedit [...]

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FTOB: Using jQuery with Wordpress

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com
I struggled with this, as the usual method of including a javascript library and an external javascript script did not work. Usually, I would do this:

<script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js” ></style>
<script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/myScript.js” ></style>

But that didn’t work at all, even when I included the jQuery.noConflict() line in [...]

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FTOB: Installing Haxe on Mac OS 10.5.5

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com
I decided not to use MTASC as my compiler after all, since it can’t do Actionscript 3. I’m going with Haxe instead.
Installation:

Go to http://haxe.org/download and download the OSX Universal Installer.
Unpack the installer and double click on it
Open up .bash_login from you home directory in your text [...]

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FTOB: Installing MTASC on Mac OS 10.5.5

Originally posted on 10/9/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/
This was easy enough:

Download the Mac OSX package from http://www.mtasc.org/#download
Unzip it and change the name of the folder to “mtasc” for ease of use
Put the unzipped folder in your Applications directory
Put a new entry in your .bash_login file that says:

export PATH=”/Applications/mtasc:$PATH”

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