Great free (has a paid version as well) desktop organizer tool for Windows 7: Fences The program basically provides ‘boxes’ into which you can drop desktop icons, and can be helpful for organization. For demos / screenshots see here: http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/screenshots.asp

Today I was told about an incredibly useful feature in WordPress that I never knew existed: automatic revisions. WordPress apparently automatically stores versions of pages and posts as you update them. I’m not sure what, if any, the limit is, but it appears to go back a good 15 revisions at least, and rolling back [...]

Check out this web page if you’re looking for a regex tester that gives real time highlighting, tips, and results: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

Here’s how to change the colour scheme of editors in Eclipse: Open Eclipse Go Help > Install New Software Paste http://eclipse-color-theme.github.com/update/ into the Work With: field Click Add… Follow the on-screen wizard to install the Color Theme plugin Go Window > Preferences Go to General > Appearance > Color Themes and select a color theme [...]

Here’s how to install a word-wrap feature into Eclipse: Open Eclipse Go Help > Install New Software in the top menu In the ‘Work With:’ field, paste http://ahtik.com/eclipse-update/ Click Add to the right of where you just pasted Click through the on-screen wizard to install the word-wrap feature Now to enable word-wrap just right-click inside [...]

In this post I just wanted to quickly talk about one of the most powerful parts of vanilla Javascript: the windowobject. According to w3schools, “The window object represents an open window in a browser. If a document contain frames (<frame> or <iframe> tags), the browser creates one window object for the HTML document, and one [...]

MyBB is a free forum software you can use to set up your own forum. It has the ability to create, export, and import custom themes, in addition to the ability to download free contributed themes and install them onto your instance of MyBB. In this post I will (very briefly) go over how to [...]

grepWin is a pretty good GREP search / search-and-replace tool for Windows 7 (maybe other versions too, not sure). Easy to insall and use; adds a windows explorer right-click context menu entry for quick searching; allows regex or simple text string search or search-and-replace — a nice, simple, free GREP tool.

Here’s a way to export your WordPress pages and posts and import them into a Drupal 7 installation: Log into your WordPress site and go to Tools > Export Choose ‘All content, just ‘Posts’, or just ‘Pages’ and click Download Export File to download an XML export of your WP site’s content. Download the ‘WordPress [...]

I recommend this tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to develop a custom Drupal 7 theme from scratch: http://www.apaddedcell.com/how-create-drupal-7-theme-scratch. The tutorial also provides enough information that the concepts could be extended if you were looking to convert an HTML / CSS template to a Drupal 7 theme.