My new top-10 iPad apps for LAMP developers

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Sun, 11/18/2012 - 12:19

Nine months ago I posted a list of my top-10 apps I use on a daily basis in my LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development environment. Since several of these have changed, here is my current list. First, the changes.

iSSH is out, Prompt is in!

iSSH is just so clunky, and it's VNC and RDP are non-functional. I got tired of being disappointed. So, I tried Prompt from Panic. Panic makes several of my favorite apps for Mac OS, such as Transmit and Unison. Not a big fan of Coda yet, until its CSS editing gets more like Espresso. Prompt is really nice. Simple interface, connections are on the left, and current connection on the right. Just enough options to be useful without being overloaded in arcane terminal crap. I never hit any bugs, but they still keep updating it regularly. I was a little concerned when Diet Coda came out they would stop development of Prompt, but that is certainly not the case. One last note, it's so good, I never use Terminal on my Mac any more. I keep my iPad next to me, so even if I am working on my Mac, I use my iPad for command-line activities.

Nutritional panels

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 20:05
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I was putting some nutritional info in a story using HTML as the input filter. It was a real pain in the ass and I thought to myself: "self, someone must have done this before". And that smart-ass 'self' was, in fact, correct. I copied the HTML into the node, and added the associated stylesheets to my local.css for my theme (in my case, Mix and Match) and I was done!

http://www.jonathoncihlar.com/index.php?Post=nutritiontemplate&Locale=en

Problem with Facebook PHP SDK and Drupal

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:16

There seems to be a major issue with the new FaceBook SDK and Drupal's various Facebook modules. As of right now, if my page keeps refreshing, open a new window and log into Facebook. Then my site will stop refreshing. Sorry about that. If you don't use Facebook as your login method on my site, then you should be fine. The lesson here: read the module bug list before upgrading to the newest shiny third-party libraries. Fixes for this issue seem to be baffling the developers at drupal.org.

Magic text cleaner for iOS coders

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 22:51

Dirty text. No one likes it, but it happens. Mysterious errors from code that looks perfect. I had wasted a lot of time copying and pasting text from places like php.net into Textastic and having the code not work at all. It turns out when I copy the text in Safari, it is grabbing characters that php does not like. Unfortunately there seems to be no text cleaners out there at all for iOS. I considered bugging the developer of Textastic for a feature BBEdit has called "Zap Gremlins", but I didn't. I may bug him to add a feature later, but for now I have made this work-around.

Easy setup of Drupal

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 20:14
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Very often, I am faced with the prospect of setting up Drupal on a brand new system. After going about it the hard way dozens of times (if your google search for Linux commands for installing Drupal is still in you google recent searches, it's a sign you might need to make some notes), I finally sat down and documented every command needed on Ubuntu 10.04 to install Drupal and Drush from scratch. You will need root access, or just add sudo in front of each command (including after the pipe on the wget line). These instructions work great on fresh Linodes, by the way.

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