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Bootstrap 3 RC1

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:13:00 +0200

Bootstrap 3 RC1 was released two days ago and from a quick look through the changes and the code, it all makes a lot more sense to me.

Bootstrap 3 RC1 written by Thomas in General.

Tags: bootstrap, rc.

Getting started with Grunt

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:58:00 +0100

Lately, there's been an uprising of all kinds of tools and frameworks to enhance your workflow. Some are just redundant and some are genius, like Grunt.

The last couple of months, I've been working on a specific project with a great team, using a lot of different frameworks and libraries like Backbone.js, Underscore.js, require.js, Bower and so on. Since it's such a complex project, we had to start thinking about letting these tools do stuff for us instead of trying to manage everything ourselves.

Getting started with Grunt written by Thomas in Productivity.

iMac 2010 SSD upgrade

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:13:00 +0100

A while ago, I started thinking about an SSD upgrade for my 27" iMac (mid 2010 model). I often upgraded some of my previous computers or laptops myself, but I find the iMac a little too tricky to fool around with because you have to take the front glass off with suction caps.

When Apple launched their replacement program for the 1TB Seagate hard drives, I decided that this was the moment to add an SSD to my precious iMac.

iMac 2010 SSD upgrade written by Thomas in General.

Tags: ssd, imac, upgrade.

Versioning is essential

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:04:00 +0100

With popular services such as GitHub, Bitbucket or Beanstalk, I'm still amazed by how many people still don't use versioning these days.
If you ask them why, they usually say something like "Oh, I have backups of my projects on an external hard drive" or "I don't need versioning because I work solo" or even worse, they ask you what version control is.

Versioning is essential written by Thomas in Productivity.

Read later for iOS

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:15:00 +0200

I was looking for a way to get the "read later" bookmarklet from Instapaper to work on my iPad because I like that one better than the built-in "reading list".

There's an easy fix to do this, but unfortunately it won't work for Safari since it doesn't let you edit the URL of the bookmark.

Read later for iOS written by Thomas in Productivity.

Tags: instapaper, ios, chrome.

MAMP PRO and Mountain Lion

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0200

Just a short instruction to fix the problem of MAMP PRO not willing to start the Apache services when you have pimped your OS to the latest version called "Mountain Lion".

MAMP PRO and Mountain Lion written by Thomas in Bugs.

Tags: mamp pro, apache, moutain lion.

Generate passwords from terminal

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:37:00 +0200

I often need a random password for yet another account on some website I will probably visit only once. In the past I used different online and/or offline tools or browser plugins to generate these random passwords but that required me to launch other applications and selecting various options over and over again to fill in my needs. Then I discovered an easy way to do exactly that through Terminal and immediately copy it to the clipboard as well.

Generate passwords from terminal written by Thomas in Productivity.

Tags: terminal, alias, dotfiles.

Generate ssh hosts

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:00:00 +0100

Do you often use ssh hosts and hate having to write them over and over again full of errors?

Just add this piece of code by my colleagues Dave Lens and Jan Moesen to your .bash_profile:

Generate ssh hosts written by Thomas in Productivity.

Tags: ssh, terminal.

Chunk font extended

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:48:00 +0100

Last week when I was slicing an awesome theme design from Veerle Pieters for Fork CMS, I ran into a problem with the Chunk font. Like with French, we also have some special characters such as "ë" in Dutch.
Unfortunately, the character set for @font-face use is pretty limited so I had to look for another solution which I found here. There's this French guy who added those special characters missing from the Chunk font to be able to use it for languagues which use those special characters with accents; big thumbs up!

Of course it would be even better when the League of Moveable Type would be so kind to add these characters to the webfont character set and give the awesome Chunk font an official update.

Chunk font extended written by Thomas in Typography.

Tags: chunk, special characters, webfont.

ProjectPlus

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:52:00 +0100

I use this TextMate plugin called ProjectPlus. It enables me to see the versionsing status of folders and files in my project tree and comes in really handy. Except, I haven't seen any updates in a while and since I'm using Lion, the plugin didn't work any longer which was quite annoying actually.

ProjectPlus written by Thomas in Productivity.

Tags: TextMate, plugin.

Copy with style TMbundle

thomas@example.com (Thomas) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:38:00 +0100

TextMate is my default editor since it has lots of perks where other editors don't fill my needs.
Last week I was looking for a simple way to insert code snippets into some slides in Keynote which didn't seem that easy to do. In the end I just took some screenshots until today, when Mathias showed me this TextMate bundle on GitHub.
So far this is the coolest bundle I found, hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Copy with style TMbundle written by Thomas in Productivity.

Tags: bundle, code snippet, keynote, TextMate.