Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Remove smileys in messenger program (iChat for mac)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

It has long annoyed me that there is no intuitive, straightforward way to disable smileys in chat programs.
Today I found that these two commands can do it for iChat for mac:
$ cd /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
$ mv SmileyTable.plist SmileyTable.plist.bak
Restart iChat. (tip from MacOSXhints.com: Disable graphical smileys in iChat 3.0 but it works for me on Mac OS [...]

Find Occurences of Text String in Files

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I had to search for occurences of string in particular files, and using Cygwin i did the following:
find all files that ends on .js, .html or .ascx:
$ find -regextype posix-extended -regex “.+\.(js|html?|ascx)$”
Then search for lines that contain the following javascript construction
for( var x in object)
I ended up with this regular expression to match the javascript:
/for\s?\(.+?\bin\b.+?\)/
. [...]

Textmate Snippet: Convert HTML entities for viewing code

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Happy New Year everybody. Here is a tiny Textmate or E-Texteditor Snippet: Convert HTML entities for viewing code. I created this recently for a HTML cookbook on a project, where we made HTML pages showing HTML example code. It converts

& to &
< to &lt;
> to &gt;

That’s it. Basically, I made a copy of one of [...]

My First Rant Discussion — Ever

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

How do you manage to help discussions being constructive and treating people with mutual respect? I just had this strange experience. You pay $34.95 for a text editor, and suddenly you’re allowed to yell and swear aththe developers. WHAT?
I’m an eager follower on the E-texteditor forum as it is a good place to follow along [...]

Powerful Text Editor Released

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

E-texteditor just got out of beta. I have actively contributed with improvement suggestions and error reports, as this editor has all needed features for rapid web devlopment, and has potential to become even better.
I suggest you check out the inspiring screencast and perhaps buy a trial if you like it.

More info:
E-Texteditor website: e-texteditor.com
Justaddwater.dk: E-Texteditor For [...]

E-Texteditor For Windows

Saturday, April 28th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I have been looking a fast, intuitive editor for my Windows laptop.
Now I stopped looking. E-texteditor for windows is very intuitive and easy to use. I highly recommend watching the screencast (a short tour of some of the best features). Although it’s still in beta, it seems so much better than the alternatives.
I’m using [...]