Interesting documentary. A must-see! Is it better to invest in indexes instead of individual funds?
And here’s a nice explanation of how much your managed investment fees can cost you.
Creating a branch in SmartSVN
Creating a branch in SVN is like creating a copy of a folder. The command line command is
$ svn copy svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/trunk
svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/branches/NAME_OF_BRANCH
-m "Creating a branch of project"but if you do it in SmartSVN, it’s shown below.
Just make sure you don’t create a folder in your branches folder and then copy the contents of your origin folder into your newly-created branch folder. That would result in a separate branch for each folder within your origin folder as opposed to one branch of your entire origin folder.
Obfuscate, Optimize, and Minify Javascript Code
If you’re worried about people stealing your Javascript code, here’s a pretty good deterrent. It’s called JScrambler.
https://jscrambler.com
If you want to optimize and minify your JS, Google’s Closure Compiler may be what you need.
https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/
Linking to a page’s HTML source
When you create a link in a website, you normally do something like
<a href=”somepage.html”>
This will take the user to somepage.html and download all assets on that page (images, css, javascript, etc) resulting in multiple requests. But, what if you only what to view a page’s HTML source. Well, you can create a link like
<a href=”view-source:somepage.html”>
and this will result in only ONE request and display the page’s HTML source code in your browser.
Stock Photo / Image / Audio / Video Websites
In case I forget, here’s a list of stock media websites I like to use.
- iStockPhoto
- ShutterStock
- Stocksy
List of FlowCharts
I’m probably going to have to use one of these at some point.
http://www.lovelycharts.com
http://www.smartdraw.com/
https://www.lucidchart.com
http://www.gliffy.com
http://www.conceptdraw.com/
http://grapholite.com
http://creately.com/
Find Shades of a Color
Here’s a nice tool to find shades of a color. You can even send a URL to someone with a base color so they can pick which shade they want.
Change Website Colors in Real-Time
Here’s a time-saver when you’re trying to find a color you’ll for your website.
- Open the page in a browser
- Inspect the element you want to change the color of
- Click on the color box and scroll through colors
TIP – Testing in Production
My Favorite Web Development Tools on Windows
Raw Text Editor
- Sublime Text 2
- HTML Tidy Plugin
- HTML Encode Plugin
- NotePad++
WYSIWYG Editor
- Dreamweaver (good for updated large tables)
SSH Client
- mRemoteNG with Putty (for UTF-8 support, select UTF-8 in the Translation setting in Putty)
Terminal / Shell / Console
- Console
- PowerCmd <- current favorite
- TakeCommand
SOAP Web Service Testing Tool
- soapUI
Diffing Tool
- WinMerge
- BeyondCompare (includes image differ)
- Araxis (includes image differ)
Bulk File Renamer
- Rename Expert
File / Directory Listing
(S)FTP / Synching Tool
- WinSCP
SVN Client
- SmartSVN
HTTP Monitor
- Fiddler
- HTTPDebugger
Web Inspector
- Google Chrome Inspector
Raster Graphic Editor
- Photoshop
Vector Graphic Editor
- Inkscape
Screen Capture
- DuckCapture
- SnagIt
Virtual Machine
- Oracle VirtualBox (for testing different versions of IE)
Video Encoding
- Quicktime Pro
- Miro Video Converter
Amazon S3 Manager
- CyberDuck
Chrome Extensions
- JSONView
- PageRank Status
- Show Title Tag
- Web Developer
- jQuerify
- AdBlock
- Pendule
- Awesome Color Picker
- Tape
- CSS Diff
Font for coding
- Consolas – 9pt
- http://www.sitepoint.com/top-10-programming-fonts/