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Firefox tips and tricks

I want to eventually post about some of the great things I’ve learned about Firefox and how to become a power user. I get a lot of value out of plugins and Greasemonkey scripts. For another day…

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Fiddler scripting is pretty cool

I never really gave Fiddler all the credit it was due. I guess I should have read the homepage: Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language....

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VIM Tip of the Day: leave python comments indented, don’t put cursor at...

If you’re ever been annoyed by VIM throwing your cursor to the left margin when you type “#” in a python file, there’s a simple remedy. It’s the fault of “smartindent” in VIM, which in reality isn’t...

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Recent svn commit statistics

Here’s a little script-fu that can help determine how many lines of code were added vs. deleted for a single Subversion commit. #!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "usage: $0 revision" exit fi...

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Batch convert images to sepia tone with python

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) offers easy photo manipulation from python scripts. There’s some handy sample code on effbot.org that demonstrates how to alter an image’s palette to generate a sepia...

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Browser history sniffing with Dojo

Niall Kennedy posted a now-famous article about using some browser trickery to determine what websites a user on your site has visited. I’ve taken that concept and created a module that can be used...

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