To install VirtualBox, I got a lot of help from hopla on the Ubuntu Forum. I quote:

You need: virtualbox, qemu, wine

Code:

apt-get install virtualbox qemu wine

Download the free(!) Microsoft Internet Explorer Application Compatibility Check VPC Images here.

(Note: you don’t have to download the full pack, you can cherry pick specific combinations of XP/Vista and IE6-8)

Extract the VPC image(s) with wine (double-click).
(Note: it might take a while before the first window shows up)

Turn the VPC image(s) into (a) VMWare image(s) (which is/are readable by VirtualBox):

qemu-img convert -f vpc image.vhd -O vmdk image.vmdk

Setup a new VM in VirtualBox, using the vmdk image as an existing disk. Boot it, you will see the Windows boot progress bar and … it will BSOD shortly after.

Fixing the BSOD:

The BSOD is caused because the virtual Windows tries to load processor drivers for the wrong processor (it is not running on VirtualPC proc, but on VirtualBox proc). Or something like that…
We need to force Windows not to attempt to load drivers for the processor (it doesn’t need any proc drivers, because it’s all virtual anyway).
Start safe mode by (frantically) hitting F8 at Windows boot and choosing safe mode.

Ignore all the ‘New hardware’ detected warnings (we will deal with those later). Start a command box and run the following command to disable the loading of processor drivers:

Code:

sc config processor start= disabled

(note the space between ‘=’ and ‘disabled’!)

Restart the virtual Windows, it should now boot all the way to the Windows Desktop.

Once your virtual Windows has rebooted, go to Devices -> Install Guest Additions in the VirtualBox window.  This will mount a (virtual) CD with the Guest Additions software.  The autorun feature didn’t work every time, so if a new window doesn’t open up, find the Guest Additions CD in Windows Explorer and run the .exe.  This adds a lot of functionality to your virtual machine.

After rebooting the virtual machine, I followed the instructions from Primeval Soup:

In Windows, go to:

Start > Run > “cmd”

In the terminal, type:

D:\VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe /extract /D=C:\Drivers

Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management

Select Device Manager.

Select Batteries, Unknown Device -> Disable

Select Sound, video and game controllers, Multimedia Audio Controller -> Disable

Select Universal Serial Bus controllers, Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller -> Disable

Select Network Adapters, Ethernet Controller -> Update Driver

Select Yes, now and every time, click Next

Select Install from a list or specific location, click Next

Enter location “C:\Drivers\x86\Network\AMD”

Click Finish

Open a browser, test connection

You’re done!

And that is a good feeling.

Snippets for HTML

Here’s a list of all the Snippets for html files. They are listed by tag names, with the TAB trigger in paratheses. These will only work in html files, other files have different snippets.

• Base (base)
• Body (body)
• Br (Shift+Ctrl+Space)
• Div (div)
• Form (form)
• Head (head)
• Heading (h)
• HTML — 4.01 Strict (doctype)
• HTML — 4.0 Transitional (doctype)
• Input (input)
• Link (link)
• Mail Anchor (mailto)
• Meta (meta)
• Non-Breaking Space (Ctrl+Alt+Space)
• Script (script)
• Script With External Source (scriptsrc)
• Style (style)
• Table (table)
• Table Row (tr)
• Text Area (textarea)
• Title (title)
• Wrap Selection as Link (ref, Shift+Alt+L)
• Wrap Selection in Open/Close Tag (Shift+Alt+W)
• XHTML — 1.0 Frameset (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.0 Strict (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.0 Tran (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.1 (doctype)

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 my script. So I ended up going with this, which loads the jQuery library that is included with the wordpress installation and then loads my script without any conflicts:


<?php wp_enqueue_script( 'myScript', '/wp-content/themes/myTheme/myScript.js', array('jquery') ); ?>


The wordpress docs have very little to say about wp_enqueue_script(), the function that makes this possible. A good resource with examples of use can be found here:

http://nickohrn.com/loading-javascript-libraries-in-wordpress-plugins-with-wp_enqueue_script/

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:

1. Go to http://haxe.org/download and download the OSX Universal Installer.
2. Unpack the installer and double click on it
3. Open up .bash_login from you home directory in your text editor and add the line: export HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH=”/usr/lib/haxe/std:./”
4. Follow the instructions for “Getting Started with haXe/Flash” in the Documentation section of the haXe website to test your installation

Now you can go to http://www.loziosecchi.it/lab/textmate_bundle/ and download and install the Haxe TextMate bundle:

1. Go to Marco Secchi’s website and download the haXe bundle for Textmate.
2. Unpack it
3. In Finder, locate the Textmate icon in the Applications folder and right click on it. Choose “show package contents” from the menu that appears.
4. Navigate to Contents -> Shared Support ->Bundles within the TextMate package
5. Open a new Finder window and locate the bundle you unpacked
6. Drag and drop the haXe2.tmbundle file into the Bundles folder and restart TextMate

This was easy enough:

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