New TextMate build, now shipping with Dialog 2
Now that TextMate has shipped a new build (1496), it has also included some new goodies behind the scenes. Amongst the good stuff is Dialog 2, which also includes a completion framework I’ve mentioned in an earlier TextMate posts.
Receiving mail again
A few weeks ago I told my old host to point to the linode.com nameservers, as thats’t the host I’m using now. (vps, yey!) Unfortunately I forgot about email, so that’s two weeks of possible email down the /dev/null
Nice summary of common security problems encountered in web development
Dave Child has written a very informative and good description with examples of Cross-Site scripting(XSS), Cross-Site request forgery(CSRF) and how character encodings can cause security problems. Check out the article at addedbytes.com. I highly recommend anyone working with web development either as professional or for hobby to read his article.
Stackoverflow.com open to public beta
Put with their own words:
Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language. Jump in and share your software engineering expertise! No registration or account required.
So head over and start collaborating and taking advantage of collective knowledge: Stackoverflow.com
Moving to new host (vps, yey!)
Over the next couple of days, I’ll be moving my blog into my new vps. The last couple of years, my domain pool has been building up, along with a small side business, which means it would be easier to host everything in one place by myself. This also gives me great flexibility in what solutions I want to use. Hopefully you will not notice any downtime, but if you do, now you know why.
Updated TextMate tip: Go to first non-space character
I’ve done some small refinements in my Go to first non-space character TextMate tip. Instead of using a non-capturing regex, I’m now actually selecting first character, and then taking a step back from the selection. This makes the command work for lines which aren’t indented too. A small adjustment to this regex was also submitted by Abhi Beckert, which makes the command work as expected on empty lines too. You can find the updated command here.
Cmd + Tab and Dock not working in OS X
Today suddenly my Cmd + Tab just died on me, along with the Dock. Seeing as I use ⌘⇥ all the time, I set out for a solution. Being quite early in the morning, I didn’t really think for myself but figured Google could do the job.
TextMate tip: Open in Finder
If you like working with your documents on the command line, I’m sure you’ve learned to love ⌃⇧O. This will open a new terminal window in the current document’s folder, ready for you to pull out your terminal-fu. Sometimes, however, you’d like to reveal the file in the Finder. I got this very simple script from Malesca
Macbook black screen caused by faulty RAM
My macbook decided to die today, all it would show was a black screen. I could hear the drive and hdd spinning, but the screen was as dark as Hitler’s conscience. Turned out one of my two 2Gb RAM sticks had died. So basically you should check your memory before you take the machine in for some Apple Care.
TextMate 2.x – Room for speculation, with sources.
Here I have compiled a list of changes that might make it into TextMate 2.x. Notice the “x”, because it means it wont necessarily be first, second or even third minor upgrade.