Fbloggs Geekdom

I changed it to ‘Silver is the New Black’ because I like the flexible width, and the fact that my code samples show up well (at least, when viewing the blog at 1400 x 1050 on my Dell Latitude D610 15″ laptop.

However – I still don’t see my excerpts. Does anyone know of a theme hosted on Wordpress.com that shows excerpts of posts?

How to restrict access to specific content in a Drupal site so only authenticated users (those who have logged in) can view and access it. (Short answer – install the ‘content-access’ plugin.)…

Tags: Content Management, Drupal, Drupal modules, Site protection, Web Development

Firebug – debug your applications. An absolute must. Best features:

• Debugger – step through, over, etc.
• Console log for monitoring AJAX interactions -shows parms sent, data returned, round-trip time.

Web Developer – fantastic CSS diagnostic support. Best features:

• View generated source – important if your script modifies the original DOM of your page
• Display Element Information – shows all the properties of an element in a convenient popup. To use, press Ctrl+Shift+F or select menu Information/Display Element Information
• Edit CSS – lets you edit the CSS selectors in real-time, and shows you the results – almost as you type

MeasureIt. Lets you find the height and width of any element or area of the page, in pixels. Helps diagnose CSS issues, for example, when you use combinations of margin, width, padding and border attributes.

Codeburner from Sitepoint, one of my favorite online journals (www.sitepoint.com). Integrates with Firebug to provide comprehensive cross-reference information on HTML and CSS. Best feature:

• Browser compatibility tables

Tags: CSS, FireFox, JavaScript, jQuery, Web Development