Gordaen's Blog

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 the [...]

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 goal is to [...]

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 sitemap and use [...]

Some of my coworkers have been struck by the Python bug (the one that makes you think Python is superior to all other languages) and they’ve been using the Django framework quite a bit. Since most of our code is in PHP, my knowledge is focused around PHP, and I have not had the time [...]

Most Linux users spend quite a bit of time using the command line. It’s fast, efficient, and gives you bonus “cool points” with every command. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought from time to time, “It sure would be nice to be able to do X” and then later stumbled across that exact feature. [...]