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evo-sublime theme for Sublime Text

I've just uploaded the evo-sublime theme for Sublime Text on GitHub . It is a dark text on light background theme, with vivid highlights. This is the theme I use to work on b2evolution. Installation You need to copy the color scheme into the Sublime…

February 22, 2015 · 1 min · François Planque

How to open Windows Explorer with the Folders shown

Dammit, I had this at the time I was using Windows 2000 and I don't understand how I beared living without it ever since. My life just got better, again ;) Here's what you need if you want a shortcut to open the Explorer on a given folder (for example…...

September 8, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Mac OS vs Windows font rendering

I want to recommend this post by Joel Spolski about differences in font rendering philosophy between Mac OS & Windows. I never really understood why Apple failed to render sharp fonts on screen. Now I understand the purpose. I'm still not sure…...

June 26, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Still dreaming about the ideal FTP tool

Besides the basics, there's three simple things I'd expect from an FTP client: Symetrically navigate in subfolders locally and remotely with single clicks;Upload files and overwrite the server side only if the local file is newer;Search the server f…...

May 17, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Mac instead of PC for PHP/Web development?

I have recently put together a new Core 2 duo PC for doing my web development. And I have been asked why I didn't get a Core 2 duo Mac instead... The question definitely makes sense. You can now get essentially the same components into a PC or a Mac.…...

November 17, 2006 · 15 min · François Planque

The soul of the mac... on your PC?

"More than even the processor... more than even the hardware innovations that we bring to the market... the soul of the Mac is its operating system... and we're not standing still!" -Steve Jobs, closing his keynote at WWDC 2005 I wonder if that means…...

June 7, 2005 · 1 min · François Planque

Installing & Securing Windows XP (is a tedious task...)

Moving in is such a boring thing to do. Almost as much as moving out. You waste time reinstalling everything you had before, but in different places. You also realize some items don't fit their purpose anymore or don't fit into your new place at all...…...

September 15, 2004 · 8 min · François Planque

Sending mail with Outlook 2002

I have been using outlook 2002 since... errr... 2002 ? (Yeah I know there are better email clients avialable... this one just integrates with nearly everything! And you can't beat that! :P) I have always had it configured in a way were any message I…...

January 21, 2004 · 1 min · François Planque

IE 6 not refreshing

Just stumbled upon yet another funky IE6 "bug" (if I may say so... When you want to automatically refresh to another page, you send a header that looks something like: Refresh:0;url=http://blah.blah.blah The funky thing is that if that header…...

August 31, 2003 · 2 min · François Planque