The most popular post on my site currently is an article on how to setup the tinyMCE editor in Drupal to use a syntax highlighting plugin.

Since that article, the Drupal world has moved along and my tutorial has become outdated.

Things are actually a bit easier now, however, so read on for a new version of the tutorial.

I recently struggled mightily with what I thought should be an easy problem.  I had an image in flex and wanted to be able to pan around it and zoom in and out.  

It turns out that a lot of people have a problem with this task, because how the scrollbars in flex keep track of where they are, and how flex handles the origin of a zoom operation.  Read on for details.

Although Ubuntu is now distributing some flash images in the form of its netbook remix distribution, it is sometimes convenient to be able to take a regular ISO version and create a flash disk image from it.

This article shows the process required to create a flash image from an ISO.

I've been following the unfolding events in Iran closely since a little before the election. Today I decided to set up a proxy server to help the citizens there stay connected to the world community.

Here are the steps I took in case you would like to do the same. BE CAREFUL! You don't want to run an open-to-the-world proxy server, and even locking it down to just the Iranian IP blocks puts your server at a small risk. I provide no warranty for the following advice.

As I wrote here, QCubed is a full featured and productive PHP framework that I use often. I'd like to share with you a customization that I did to allow the easy conversion of QCubed objects into serialized JSON representations.

For several years, Qcubed has been my php framework of choice. I'll be writing about Qcubed frequently so I wanted to first give an overview of its features. Read on for my overview.

I want to share some code that I wrote as a technology demonstration about a year ago.  It's a simple mind map program that runs in a web browser and written in javascript using a library called processing.js

The demo is quite simple, and not usable as a full application, but was useful for me to test out a few concepts.  I have since moved on and ported this code to other platforms and will be releasing the results of that shortly.  Read on for a quick background of processing.js and the source code and link to my demo mind map.

Here's a quick tip for using iTerm to connect to Linux servers. 

To get proper arrow key support in programs like vi, along with some other benefits, set the terminal type to 'linux'.  The easiest way to do this is to create a new profile and use that profile for bookmarks that represent Linux servers you connect to.

UPDATE: I've written a new version of this article that should be followed instead of this slightly-dated version.  

I've recently taken another look at tinyMCE integration in Drupal. I used to use tinyMCE on all my sites, but have migrated most of my editing to the desktop. This is a short article on how to get Drupal, the wysiwyg module, the tinyMCE editor, and the javascript SyntaxHighlighter library all integrated together.

There are several online guides on how to get these components to work together, but none of them were complete or up to date with the latest versions of all the components.

I will assume you have drupal installed already. These instructions were done on version 6.10, but should work on any recent 6.x version.

I've spent a fair amount of time trying to overcome procrastination. By this point, I've developed a few tools and tricks that help me. I hope you will find them useful. I don't always practice each tip, or use each tool, but I keep them all on the shelf. I've found that I quickly can develop an 'immune response' to some of these, so it pays to be able to rotate your strategies for maintaining a high level of productivity.

This article is Mac-centric in terms of software, because that is what I use. Where an application is mentioned, you can usually find a Windows alternative.