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Snippets in Notepad++
I’m a massive fan of Notepad++, the lightweight Windows based text editor, it has a tiny footprint but packs enough features to make it my go-to Windows text editor. Up until quite recently however, I’d been missing snippets, but not any more.
Quick links: ‘Multicolr’ image search and Git Immersion
Couple of really great quick links I’m sharing today: one’s a really cool tool that can help you find images based on a certain colour palette; the other’s a great beginners tutorial for the Git version control system.
Tool: A Google Maps powered Twilight/’Golden Hour’ Calculator
No, not that Twilight. This is a really cool Google Maps powered tool that allows the budding photographer in us to work out when the ‘Golden hour’ is wherever we are on the planet.
Tools: Uptime Robot
Having recently been on a bit of an uptime monitoring quest for a client, I started looking around the different web-based services dedicated to this purpose. Having gone through the usual batch: Pingdom, Mon.itor.us, Are My Sites Up? and several others, I quickly came to the realisation that if you’re looking for a free up-time monitoring service you have to have a pretty damn good reason to not go with Uptime Robot.
Love LESS but you’re put off by Ruby?
I’ve fiddled around with the original LESS a few times and loved the convenience of variables and nested rules in CSS, but I’ve always been reluctant to put it into production because of the fact that it’s based in Ruby. Not that I have anything against Ruby as a language, far from it in fact, but simply the fact that it isn’t as all pervasive as PHP which makes maintenance and portability a bit more of a pain that it should be. But now there’s an answer.