Zen Coding is a pretty sweet set of tools for HTML and CSS that allows you to code things in a short of code shorthand, hit a magic button, and it expand to regular old code.
If you’re interested, here’s a demo video of it.
Sadly, there’s no official Gedit plugin for it, but Stuart Langridge hacked up a quick plugin a few months ago. However, it left a bit to be desired, and he didn’t seem to interested in maintaining it.
Therefore, I’m continuing development on it myself. I’ve fixed a few bugs and refactored a couple parts, and I’m hoping to turn this into a really nice plugin.
The code is all at GitHub, so feel free to download, drop it into your Gedit plugins folder (see the README file for more info), and try it out.
I just launched Ubuntu Funnel, an aggregator of Ubuntu and Linux blogs.
It’s basically a vanilla install of Development Seed’s Managing News, so I can’t take credit for anything except the fact that I bought the domain and set it up. Development Seed has been doing a really awesome job on not only Managing News, but also Open Atrium and MapBox.
So if you’re into Ubuntu or Linux, check it out and maybe subscribe to its RSS feed.
Also, if you happen to run an Ubuntu blog, just let me know and I’d be glad to add it to the Funnel.
Just thought I’d share the gEdit Color Scheme I’ve been using for awhile now. I’ve lovingly named it Flarp, in honor of this urban legend.
Installation:
- Download it.
- Put it in /home/yourname/.gnome2/gedit/styles
- Fire up gEdit and pick the theme in Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts & Colors
Enjoy!
I’m going to try and limit this to apps that everybody hasn’t already heard of. Most of these you can just apt-get, and most of these I use at least daily.
- Shutter - A screenshot program. Supports windows, selections, the desktop, uploading to online image hosts, inline image editing, etc. Really slick.
- Midori - A GTK + WebKit based browser. Extremely lightweight/fast and finally stable with the latest (0.2.x) versions.
- Parcellite - A clipboard manager that sits in the tray and saves a history of your copies. Has saved my butt MANY times.
- gpick - A color picking tool that lets you grab a color from anywhere on your desktop and has support for building color schemes.
- Mirage - A really quick image viewer with a layout that makes more sense than EOG or gThumb. Has support for really basic editing.
- GMate - If you’re a coder, GMate will install and configure a bunch of plugins for gEdit
- Guake - This borders on well-known, but whatever. It’s a really cool dropdown terminal that I use about every 10 seconds.
- Microblog Purple - Integrates microblog platforms like Twitter into libpurple messengers, like Pidgin.
- Getting Things GNOME - A nice little task manager with some cool plugins. I don’t use it anymore, but that’s just because I’m too lazy.
- PDF Mod - Pretty simple PDF editing app that lets you rotate, remove pages, add pages, reorder, etc.
So Ubuntu/GNOME still has a pretty annoying bug where if you copy something to the clipboard, and then exit the program it was copied from, you lose your copy. This may seem petty but, fair readers, think again! I can’t tell you how many times I have copied some important code out of an unsaved file, exited the unsaved file, and then was unable to paste it into the new file, losing the code FOREVER!
Enter Parcellite, a clipboard manager which fixes that and also adds a history of copied things. So not only will you not lose what you just copied, but you can also look at the last 25 or so things you copied and grab one of them again.
For those of you in the know, it basically does the same thing as Glipper, but it’s much more lightweight and seems a little more reliable/stable on my box.
Anyways, check ‘er out.
