Tim Dupree

This morning I had to implement an interactive map that allows one to locate local dealers of GPS equipment.  The site I needed to do this on is running an extremely old version of prototype.js (version 1.5, circa 2007) and moodom.js (the precursor to MooTools). I didn’t want to use these outdated libraries to create the little interactive app.  I would normally use MooTools, but I needed a library I could namespace so that I wouldn’t step on Prototype’s shoes.  I grabbed the latest build of jQuery, namespaced it using the jQuery.noConflict(); technique, wrote my code, and included it right before…

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Update (7/10/09): I fixed the extensions to work with the new update to Chrome, find them here. Today I decided to convert some of my Greasemonkey Scripts to Chrome Extensions.  I converted my Digg AdBlocker, Hacker News OnePage, and Hacker News Comments scripts.  It turned out to be quite easy, I barely had to change anything to get them running as Chrome Extensions.  I packaged them using the python script Google supplied, so they are easy for anyone to install. To use the extensions, you first need to be running the dev build of Google Chrome, you can get it…

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I have been using a relatively new HTTP server called nginx (pronounced “engine-x”) on a project and have been pretty impressed with it.  Despite the original documentation being in Russian, the English documentation is getting better and we are beginning to see a lot more resources popping up to help people with nginx. Here are some resources you might find helpful in getting your nginx server up and running… – Official Stuff: Official nginx website: http://nginx.net/ Official nginx English wiki: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main – Installing nginx on Ubuntu Intrepid: Install it really quick  – Install nginx using aptitude package manager or Install…

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Here’s a handy tip, if you want to remove the www. from your domain and have visitors always see http://mydomain.com, then all you have to do is add 4 lines of code to your .htaccess file (or create a .htaccess file if you dont have one already).  Just add: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] Just replace “mydomain” with the name of your domain and you’re done. Thats it! Now any time someone goes to www.mydomain.com the www. will be automatically dropped.  The one caveat, your server has to be running the apache webserver…

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There was a submission about “What makes a good programming font?” on HN today and, as usual, the comments on the submission proved more enlighting than the actual linked post (Hacker news has a great community).  From the comments I came across some nice programming fonts; Envy Code R and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.  The user who posted about the Vera Sans Mono font also added a picture of it in action here.  I liked the syntax highlighting/code coloring of that code screenshot, so naturally I set out to try out something similar with dreamweaver and TextPad. I have to…

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