This is a tip for anyone using Firefox and Firebug for web development that is not leveraging the Profiles feature of that browser. Recent versions of Firebug (after v1.3 I think) removed the ability to enable Firebug panes on a per-domain basis. Now it's kind of all or nothing. And you know that...
My current project has an interesting story of being converted across platforms and programming languages. I hope I can talk about this conversion process some day (it was not manual). One of the side effects of mass conversions like this is that the final result tends to carry over some weird patterns...
Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You know, Latin-originated languages tend to have thôse wéìrd chãraçtërs , which are really just diacritical marks applied to regular...
I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to. Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office...