Found this super handy cheat sheet for regular expressions.
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Also, this serves as a useful reminder when returning to regular expressions.
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
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Category Archives: Shortcuts
Command Line Shortcuts
Excellent post from one of my favourite sites – Become a command line ninja with these time saving shortcuts
Tidy and format your PHP and meet WordPress standards on Coda and TextWrangler
If you are working in a collaborative environment, coding standards are important. When you are reading through code that you haven’t written, it helps if it follows a standard.
As I work with Automattic, the keepers of WordPress.com, I get the opportunity to work on the WordPress Platform. WordPress have their own standards that are sensible without being pedantic and are similar to the PEAR standard. The emphasis of the standard (in my opinion), is to present your code so collaboration is as easy as possible. It would prefer if you wrote code that is easier to read and understand, even if it is a little longer, than some compressed, ubersmart block of code that only you can follow.
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Debugging tool works wonders with Internet Explorer
Came across a cool debug tool today, its called Fiddler2.
Fiddler2 is a…
Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet
Textwrangler Tips – Compare files, keyboard shortcuts
A few quick TextWrangler tips.
I never knew until recently that you can compare files in TextWrangler… and its easy.
Simply highlight the 2 files you want to compare in the Documents drawer, right click on them and select the option ‘Compare Selected Documents‘.
Now the 2 files will open into 2 windows with a review of the differences below them. You can then apply the differences in either direction.
Another tip is adding keyboard shortcuts to TextWrangler’s menu options.
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Format XML with TextWrangler
My text editor of choice on the Mac is TextWrangler. It’s lightweight and it has pretty much all you need from a text editor. In particular, I like that I can SFTP into my development server.
One issue that bugged me lately was when I opened an unindented, unformatted XML file. Basically, it looked a mess and there was no way to tidy the file up so that I could read it easily.
However, I found a simple way to do this today… Continue reading
Terminal Aliases
Sick of typing out long commands, bad at typing, forget commands from time to time or all 3 like me… then aliases are here to help.
Basically, you can use a handy short memorable alias for a long and possible complicated one in terminal by doing the following.
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