A really great feature of Sublime Text 2 is the ability to create your own build scripts. A build script is helpful when you are writing in a language that needs to be compiled or executed from terminal / command line. I personally use build scripts to compile the current file into CoffeeScript as well as run the current file in Node JS.
Watch the tutorial or continue reading to learn how to make Sublime Text 2 build scripts.
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This morning I saw this link on youtube which was a little mashup of some HTML5 technologies. I thought it would be funny if I could do the same, but with goofy pair of glasses. I’ve also been itching to put the CCV JavaScript Face Detection library to use. This library shows a few examples on static images, but after a quick look at the code, it shows that the underlying element to the script is a canvas element. So instead of running it on a single image, I am running it on a feed of frames coming from an HTML5 video element.
I’ll go into the technical details further on in the post, but here is a demo as well as a youtube video showing the effect as it can be a little sluggish on older machines. Currently tested and working in Google Chrome 14 and Firefox 6.0. Continue reading
I’m a long time Coda user. A few months ago I, like everyone else, decided to switch over to vim. I really liked Vim but just couldn’t get the hang of it for whatever reason. After shamefully crawling back to Coda, I found myself realizing that Coda fell short in a few areas. It was then I decided to give Sublime Text 2 a shot as it had been touted as the sucessor to Text Mate. Its taken me a few weeks to get used to, but I can happily say I’m a Sublime Text 2 user now. Here are a few tips that make switching over easier.
I’m a backup fanatic and not having a few backups of files makes me uneasy. Today I had a little scare where I couldn’t find a few of my databases when viewing PHPmyAdmin through MAMP. Turns out sometimes MAMP likes to sometimes grab the databases from the MAMP Pro location and sometimes the MAMP location.
So, I decided it was time to figure out how to automatically backup my databases. The problem is that my MySQL databases are not in the same folder as my Dropbox folder.
The answer to this is very simple! First, if you haven’t already, sign up for dropbox. Then we just need to create a simple symlink that will allow the databases to be stored in their location and still be backed up to the DropBox folder.
I saw on twitter that John Gardner was looking for a way to loop through his WordPress categories and then display all posts that belonged to that category below it. I thought it was a great question / problem to solve so I did a quick tutorial on how to do so.
Was helping someone out in the jQuery IRC channel today and they were having some trouble with a JSON api that they were using. To simply put it they wanted to:
Now the example given is great, however it doesn’t jive well when you want to add in a friendly library like jQuery. So here is how we fixed it: Continue reading
This is a little code snippet that I use in almost every project that isn’t based on a popular CMS. Since its fairly expensive to hit the database on every page load, its a smart idea to cache the plain HTML markup of your page and serve that up. You can set how often the page cache is flushed out depending on how often you update your site’s content. Continue reading