Gordaen’s Blog

What does the secret button do?

When I first started using OSX at work, it was a slightly rough transition. Some things work really well and other things are just not intuitive at all (like the key combination for taking screenshots). The one thing that I instantly loved was QuickSilver. It’s an application launcher and a lot more. […]

Maybe my mouse skills need some refreshing, but today I (accidentally) learned that I could open a website by middle-clicking an inactive part of a webpage (i.e., not a link). It took me a while to figure this out, but, if I have text copied, middle-clicking will paste it into the location bar (adding […]

PHP frameworks are supposed to empower the coder, while helping to keep things standardized. Unfortunately, that often means dealing with limitations or significant overhead. It is very difficult to find the right framework for any project, small or large, but I’ve created an all-purpose framework called Bruised Coccyx (Bruco for short). It’s […]

It doesn’t take long using a command line before you start to use tab completion everywhere else. Of course, pretty much nothing else works, including the address bar of a browser. Not working doesn’t seem to really kill the habit though. The real question is, why doesn’t my browser download a site’s […]