Essential Tools for the Beginning Web Developer

Posted by Tristan Waddington on Apr 27, 2009 in Blog, Computers | 0 comments

I’ve been doing some Javascript tutoring this term and I realized that there are a few indispensable utilities that any budding web developer should know about. Text Editor The first thing you need is a good text editor. You can code anything in Microsoft’s Notepad or Apple’s Text Editor, but you won’t have any fun, that’s for sure. A good text editor is like a Swiss...

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Firefox 3.0.8 Prints Garbage Fixed-Width Text [Courier]

Posted by Tristan Waddington on Apr 7, 2009 in Blog, Computers | 1 comment

Apparently Firefox has developed sporadic issues with with the Courier font-family on Windows computers. If you print the following fixed-width text examples and are using Firefox 3, then chances are you’ll see garbage text for the Courier block. Default <pre> Font $ whoami $ ls -al $ echo "hai world!" Courier $ whoami $ ls -al $ echo "hai world!" Courier New $ whoami $ ls -al $...

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