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Sublime Text another Windows alternative for TextMate

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Hello folks,

You probably heard about great text editor TextMate on MAC machines. Some time ago i found great alternative in Windows systems it is called Sublime Text. It is really great and quite powerful text editor with nice features:

  • minimap - great for fast code browsing, you can see more of your code;
  • automation - sniplet, macros and smart repeat is everything you need for fast coding;
  • multiselection - one more great feature;
  • beautiful user interface - it has unique user interface;

Here are some screens of this great editor:

You can split screen in 2 or more parts.

Editing with Sublime

Faster your coding with code sniplets

Editing with Sublime

Just great editor for fast coding.

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Faster web development with free tools

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Web Server

You don’t really need a web hosting to start coding or designing your new project. You can run simple web server on your own machine. There many software to run server on your machine like:

  • EasyPHP - for small web projects or testing simple scripts (only Windows)
  • XAMPP - you can do with this anything that you can do with real web server (Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris)
  • WAMP - another server for small projects.

I recommend to install XAMPP this one is best and would fit all your needs.

HTML/PHP editor

There are a lot of editors free to download from internet. I tried many of them:

  • Notepad++ - very popular text editor, with many add ons
  • PSPad - great editor for HTML PHP, there is FTP support and many other features
  • Intype - this is free analog of popular Mac OS text editor TextMate for windows

And many more other my recommendation is Intype, this editor is really has big power for coding.

Mini programs

These mini but powerful programs can help you a lot making design for your new web project.

  • Pixie - use this tool to pick up colors from any location of your screen just point your mouse pointer on any screen element and hit Ctrl+Alt+C and paste color code direct to CSS or PhotoShop
  • JRuler - want to measure on the screen then you need JRuler, with this tool you can measure everything on your screen or web browser

Testing your project

It is good to test your project design on all popular web browsers. Firefox and Opera is free for download. Internet Explorer is already on MS Windows, but there are two versions of Internet Explorer how to test project in both 7 and 6 (and even older) you would need multiple IE’s on your machine.

If you know more great free tools feel free to write of them in comments.

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RunFast - good way to lounch programs

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

If you want to keep your desktop and quick launch clean you should have this program. It supports aliases, which allows you to create custom commands and it also supports execution of multiple commands at one time. All you need to do is just hit Ctrl+R type in alias of program (in example: firefox) and hit enter and your program is open.

You can download RunFast from here.

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