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Great Regular Expression Tester

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/

Change colour scheme of Eclipse editors

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 [...]

Word-wrap / Line-wrap plugin for Eclipse

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 [...]

The Javascript window object

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 [...]

How to Migrate WordPress Pages / Posts into Drupal 7

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 [...]

Link: Great tutorial for creating a custom Drupal 7 theme

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.

Add Auto-Complete Suggestions to your WordPress Search Box

I recently tried out a few WordPress plugins to try to add autocomplete suggestion functionality to this blog’s searchbar, and here’s one I came across that I really like: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-autocomplete/ This plugin uses jQuery UI’s autocomplete functionality and comes with a few of jQuery UI’s themes built in. Super easy to set up; just install [...]

snipt.net: A handy collection of code snippets

I highly recommend this site: http://snipt.net/public Snipt is a great site which lets users browse, search for, and comment on, useful code snippets from various programming languages — you can find .htaccess snippets, CSS3 snippets, PHP and Javascript snippets, snippets for processing strings, snippets specific to jQuery, Regex snippets, and much much more. Edit: Snipplr [...]

Some Interesting jQuery Plugins

Note that I haven’t tried out the following jQuery plugins, but they are some of the more interesting and seemingly useful ones I’ve read about: jQuery Tools - A UI library containing functionality for scrolling, overlays, tooltips, sliders, and more. Stellar.js - A Parallax effect plugin. jQuery Mega Drop Down Menu - plugin for creating attractive and flexible [...]

Link: How to Add Sidebar to Posts in Twenty Eleven Theme

http://tricksmommy.com/2011/07/08/add-sidebar-in-single-post-pages-of-twenty-eleven-wordpress-theme/