If you are a Joomla user or developer, then you would have come accross the requirement of linking to articles and/or menu items from the WYSIWYG editor.
The current way is tedious. You’d either have to try and guess the URL and have some sort of workaround so that you can remember how to format links. This requirement has always stumped us in the past, but after some R&D prior to coding up my own solution, I found out about the Linkr extension for Joomla 1.5!
Being a web developer, I need to make sure that the web pages I develop are rendered correctly (or in some cases “close enough” to correctly) across different browsers. Back when I was using Windows that wasn’t a problem for me, I can run all the major browsers for PC – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox Browser and Opera. I could test how the site looks on all three.
On Ubuntu linux however, it’s a different story. While the default browser for Ubuntu is Firefox and Canonical has a version of Opera in their repository, there is no linux native version for Internet Explorer. This would have been a problem had it not been for ies4linux.
» Read more: Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 and 7 on Linux with IEs4Linux
As I was looking at shrinking the CSS and JavaScript files DevScripts from 60+kb and 70+kb respectively, I found a couple of helpful of good tools to keep handy when you’re dropping your projects into production.
To compress javascript I used the Code and Coffee online JavaScript compression/encoding tool, and for cleaning up the CSS, I used CleanCSS which was sent to me by a former colleague.
» Read more: Good Online JavaScript Encoding & CSS Compression tools
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