Category Archives: Tutorial

Little changes to get concrete5 working

By Ammon | October 26 2010

I took the concrete5 content management system out for a spin today. Its very pretty and the interface is great. There were a couple things I had to tweak in order to make it run on my local development system.  Its the usual suspects: permissions, virtual hosts, and permalinks. They were an easy fix (for [...]

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VirtualBox on Ubuntu Jaunty for Testing Internet Explorer in Windows

By Ammon | August 4 2009

Ed. Note: this method is no longer valid or necessarily a good way to go about things. See here instead: http://likesalmon.net/browser-testing-with-cloned-virtual-machines/ I really loved using VMWare Fusion in OSX to test my webpages in Windows.  The power to just drag a whole Windows installation into the trash when it gets jacked up is intoxicating. Unfortunatly, [...]

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A list of HTML Snippets in Gedit

By admin | April 28 2009

Snippets are extremely useful feature of Gedit that make it usable for TextMate fiends like myself. They work exactly the same as in TM: in Gedit go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins and put a check next to “Snippets”. Now open, say, an html file, type body and press TAB. Gedit will automatically fill [...]

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FTOB: Using jQuery with WordPress

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I struggled with this, as the usual method of including a javascript library and an external javascript script did not work. Usually, I would do this: <script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js” ></style> <script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/myScript.js” ></style> But that didn’t work at all, even when I included the [...]

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FTOB: Installing Haxe on Mac OS 10.5.5

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I decided not to use MTASC as my compiler after all, since it can’t do Actionscript 3. I’m going with Haxe instead. Installation: Go to http://haxe.org/download and download the OSX Universal Installer. Unpack the installer and double click on it Open up .bash_login from you home directory in your [...]

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FTOB: Installing MTASC on Mac OS 10.5.5

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/9/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This was easy enough: Download the Mac OSX package from http://www.mtasc.org/#download Unzip it and change the name of the folder to “mtasc” for ease of use Put the unzipped folder in your Applications directory Put a new entry in your .bash_login file that says: export PATH=”/Applications/mtasc:$PATH”

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