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Articles tagged with Linux

  • Crop and Resize Images with GD or ImageMagick (v1.1)

    A new GD version has been released to complement the ImageMagick crop and resize with JavaScript and PHP. Crop and resize images from within your browser.

    Originally posted December 17th, 2007. 13 Comments

  • I’ve Switched from Linux and Settled on OS X

    Two of the more popular articles I’ve ever posted to this site are Linux and Web Development Intro and Linux and Web Development Part 2. In each piece, I documented my transition from using Windows my entire life to working with Linux (Ubuntu particularly). I first began working with Linux at home, I came to [...]

    Originally posted November 26th, 2007. 12 Comments

  • Installing and Running WebKit in Linux Using Qt

    Running WebKit in Linux is quite easy now that it has been ported to Qt. This article is a walk through on installing WebKit in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04.

    Originally posted April 23rd, 2007. 26 Comments

  • Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces

    Linux should not be ignored when thinking about typography on the Web. I’ve taken some time to compile a list of fonts that ship by default with Ubuntu with type that has come to be considered Web safe.

    Originally posted April 2nd, 2007. 37 Comments

  • When Readers Choose to Use Their Own Style

    User style sheets can sometimes interfere with author CSS. Most commonly, users don’t create their own style sheet due to the requirement of a working CSS knowledge. Automated scripts adding custom style sheets for users changes things up a bit, however.

    Originally posted March 26th, 2007. 8 Comments

  • Using SciTE with TextMate Style Snippets

    SciTE is a very powerful and capable editor. Using a Snippets plugin developed by Mitchell, you’re able to mimic some of the functionality that has made TextMate as popular as it is.

    Originally posted March 12th, 2007. 17 Comments

  • Linux and Web Development Part 2

    It has been over two months since my last writeup about using Linux for Web development. I thought now would be a good time to revisit that subject and write a bit about my findings after using the new operating system for a little while.

    Originally posted September 11th, 2006. 62 Comments

  • Linux and Web Development Intro

    I recently switched to using Linux full time from Windows and here’s my experience so far.

    Originally posted July 3rd, 2006. 108 Comments