Posts Tagged ‘Web Development’

Get started using advanced web fonts today

Friday, February 24th, 2012 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I saw this example on a blog today:

GWT Developer Plugin now Works with Firefox 9

Saturday, January 28th, 2012 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

(UPDATED) The GWT developer plugin has been updated to works with Firefox 9, a couple of days ago. Its not yet officially available, but can be downloaded directly from the codebase: google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ prebuilt folder in here  is the gwt-dev-plugin.xpi, and it works like a charm :) Previously i wrote when the plugin was updated to […]

GWT Developer plugin for Firefox 7 is now Ready

Monday, October 10th, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

UPDATED 2011-12-14: Prebuilt folder now contains Firefox 8 version of the GWT developer plugin. Since Firefox 7 was released, i have defered upgrading for one simple reason: At work I am dependent on GWT Developer plugin. Today I found the ready-to-release plugin which actually works with Firefox 7: http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/xpcom/prebuilt/ in here  is the gwt-dev-plugin.xpi, and […]

Challenges Configuring Hudson Emails

Thursday, March 10th, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

My recent Stackoverflow question How to use Hudson “Parameterized Build” values in an email earned me the “tumbleweed” badge because it had almost no views (39 in a week), got no answers and no votes. Therefore I decided to offer 200 of my reputation points for a usable answer. But despite the high bounty of 200 […]

Easy delete all .svn Subfolders in Windows Explorer

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I had to repair a flawed Subversion repository recently (not all files were committed). I had my local repository checked out. This was the flawed part, containing only parts of the folders and files it should. Then, I got a zip file from the machine where it was working. Problem: It contained .svn folders from […]

GWT relevant snippets for IntelliJ Idea editor

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I created a list of snippets that I loaded into my IntelliJ editor, which I find useful when working with Google Webtoolkit (GWT). So far, it’s a very short list. Snippet 1: Live template to bootstrap a class to use UI binder logic. Very useful when converting existing (pre gwt 2.0) Java classes to UI […]

Explanation of Firebug Net Panel Findings

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jan Odvarko – one of the Firebug developers – posted some very good explanations on the information available from the Firebug net panel. Here is the explanation of the detailed mouseover view when zooming in on each request: The second request started 109ms after the start of the first request (since the beginning of the […]

Greasemonkey Debugging Tips: How to Determine Why your Script Is Not Running

Friday, September 18th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

After running into some trouble with getting a Greasemonkey to work, I just wanted to share this list with you of things to look out for when your Greasemonkey script does not seem to run. What are the common pitfalls you see around. I’ll gladly add them here. I am trying to get a Greasemonkey […]

2 Must-Know HTML Table Colum Features Any Webdeveloper Should Be Aware Of

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I was reading up on the good old HTML specification and discovered a feature I had always wanted — and it’s already there:
Creating widths of columns that will work like percentages, but will also pay attention to any small, fixed-width columns.

Take a look at HTML’s proportional widths and amount alignment features.

Selection Groups in Rails made less cumbersome

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I made this addition today after (once again) struggling with option groups for a nested Rails model. My solution: create a new tag for FormOptionsHelper: grouped_select http://gist.github.com/179075

Importing Existing Git repository into SVN

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Many of my colleagues know svn but are in general not (yet) ready jump over to using Git for bigger projects. Today I had to import my existing Git repository into SVN. I had been working locally with a Git repos and wanted to keep my history before giving access to my colleagues. The guide […]

HTML Guide Textmate Snippets Open Sourced

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

One year ago I published “Design Guide or HTML Markup Guide” with link to the HTML guide we did for the biggest Danish business internet portal. The HTML guide is a really useful tool for every public authority that must deliver applications for the portal. As a help for my own work back then, I […]

Using Local File-based Git — Server Laziness

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

My problem this week: I wanted to share some work with a colleague. Unfortunately we have not yet setup our caplab environment with git server. Nor did i want to push this particular project to GitHub or Unfuddle. My alternative was a file-based setup: Each developer’s machine has it’s own Git repository. On my machine […]

.NET tips for my development environment

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

At a recent project I had to work in a full-blown .NET environment. Here are some of the tips I collected from my colleagues. Visual Studio I added the methods below in the Macro editor (Tools > Macros > Macros IDE) Stop the build on error. When an error occurs I am notified instantly and […]