Os X – how to create links to scripts for dock or desktop

As I promised in the previous post, I will show you how to add any script or program run normally from command line to dock or desktop and run as any other application.
For this we will use Platypus.
Platypus “can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts. Supports shell [...]

synergy 2 – redirect your mouse and keyboard the easy way

If you are a web developer you are forced to run multiple operating systems, to check your code and design in as many browsers as possible. Well, the main problem is the IE as it always do strange things….
This can be done using a virtual machine, or multiple computers. The first case can be done [...]

Mootools off-line documentation

Here we have documentation for both versions of mootools, 1.11 and 1.2, as chm files, and cheatsheets.
Cheatsheets are from http://mediavrog.net, but chm files i don’t know where are from, so if you know the author, please let me know so I can link to his page here.
The chm files can be opened in linux with [...]

How to create a product viewer using mooZoom

There are cases when we need to show a zoomed image of a product ( or something else ), that require to be as much as user friendly as possible. One of the cases are e-commerce sites that use high quality images for high impact over the client’s mind (jewelery for example).
In this case [...]

Lighttpd install perl, mysql support in chrooted jail

Perl is Practical Extraction and Report Language, which is quite famous and used by many web application.
A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database is provided by libdbd perl mysql shared library.
You can install perl support via mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi.
Following are essential steps to run perl based application in chrooted lighttpd setup along with MySQL
This [...]

Create window-like element with mootools

We continue our serie related to mootools with a tutorial that shows us how to build a window-like element on our page, that can be resized and moved. Based on previous tutorials, we will will create first the html and apply some js code to it, to obtain what we want. This tutorial is a [...]

Mootools 1.2 stable is out!

It seems that MooTools team just released the stable 1.2 version of popular framework mootools. Great job, and a big step forward.My only concern is what is going to happen with 1.11, as the website for the moment is working in a reduced form, docs, download being available only, but as they said “At least you can download, right?”  Again, congratulations! [...]

A beginner’s mootools – create draggable and resizable elements

The today tutorial will try to explain how to make an element draggable or resizable – or even both in the same time, using the MooTools framework. To accomplish this we’ll make use of two functions existent in mootools: makeDraggable() and makeResizable().
This is very simple.We simply select the element we want to be resizable [...]

Textmate tricks- open ftp files in tabs,keybindings changes and codebrowser

After searching through editors for Os X, that can go as close as possible to Quanta, my former editor in linux, before I switched to mac, and not founding anything close – or better said close to my habits – I finished choosing 3 editors – Coda, skEdit, and TextMate.
Coda is [...]

R’born redesign

Well, after some time from the original launch, we managed to alocate some little time to R’born Development, and we re-skinned our site. This change is intended to come with our new range of services for our clients: eCommerce solutions, CMS solutions on top of php, ajax technologies.