web development
Coda: search and replace for special characters
UPDATE: Doh! text -> Encode Entities will also work, though the below script will give you a bit more control over what you want to encode to.
UPDATE2: I actually like my homespun script better. The above built-in functionality will encode ALL entities including your html tags if you don't have anything selected. My script only encodes specific chars, so I can quickly encode a whole document w/o worrying about selecting.
Mini Drupal Case Study: solarpower.thund3rbox.com
Moving into our new house got me thinking about ways to save on energy costs (going from small apartment to full house), and with the abundant amount of sunshine we get in Long Beach (and Southern California in general), I'm especially curious about solar energy.
Latest Drupal experiences
So last month, I finally got myself a VPS through Slicehost and decided it was time to start doing my own personal Drupal stuff. The experience has been mostly positive; building the virtual box from scratch, prepping a multisite environment, doing some light theming, etc.
IETester
Holy cow! Now THIS is a useful app. How long has this been around and why am I only discovering it now? This app is going to save me oodles of time.
“Tester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”
