webdev

I was looking for a way to efficiently pass data between cross-domain iframes using the location hash trick. The first thing that I checked was JSON but the payload gets huge when url encoded, then I tried with base64 encoding which helps but not very much. Finally I found RISON which in short is nothing more than a reformulation of JSON's control characters to make them more URI friendly.Read more

Firefox is a great browser and is also a great development tool in itself. There are some problems though with the numerous extension available to developers. They are a great resource when programming but they slow down (and in some scenarios they might even break) our normal web browsing.

So the idea is to have a normal Firefox installation to use as our browser and then a separate install (and profile) used only for development purposes. This way we can install tons of development related addons without worrying about slowing down our normal browsing.Read more

Following with the series I will introduce in this chapter Cygwin.

Cygwin is an excellent collection of Unix utilities and programs ported to Windows. While its ‘emulation‘ of an Unix like environment is quite good I actually don’t use it. I install it just for the helpful utilities it has.Read more

Disclaimer: This will be a series of posts dedicated to document my current development setup. This setup tries to be the one of a Ninja. It won’t end up with a bunch of boring application windows typical of a bald engineer. It also won’t be a group of black terminal windows running vi as a pseudo operating system like the average geek wannabe.Read more

Nothing really new since there is already a firefox extension which does just the same, but I also wanted to support other browsers.

So this bookmarklet toggles the cookie Xdebug uses to check if it should debug the running script or not.Read more