Use a Single Editor Well The editor should be an extension of your hand; make sure your editor is configurable, extensible, and programmable. - The Pragmatic Programmer I’m starting a project in Ruby on Rails and I’ve found that most documentation, books, and webcasts use the TextMate editor available only for Macintosh computers. As a [...]
Category Archives: Z&R Computer Services
View Source Chart
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Another wonderful tool for you today. View Source Chart/View Rendered Source is a FireFox plugin, and I’ve used it extensively in the past. This plugin allows you to get a much better view of the source html of a webpage than most standard browser offerings. The html is reformatted into blocks that reflect the html [...]
Hexadecimal CSS Color Extractor
Monday, February 9, 2009
Color Hound Update (4/27/2009): I’ve built my own twist on an extractor with some similar features and some different. Check it out! Here’s a nice tool that will extract color information from a stylesheet. In my case, I had a 500 line CSS file and I needed to get a good idea of what colors [...]
Curvy Corners
Thursday, February 5, 2009
One more Web-CSS tool for today. This one is nice as you can apply a rounded corner to any div element. It uses Javascript and CSS. Define your corner style in the CSS document for a class, then apply that style to the html element. The JavaScript will do the rest. It uses built-in corner [...]
Web-CSS Category and “Sexy Buttons”
Thursday, February 5, 2009
I’m adding a new post category today, Web-CSS. I’ll use this category to provide some quick notes on tricks and tips that I find useful for building websites. Today, Sexy Buttons, a handy tutorial with examples of how to implement HTML form submit buttons with better support for customized style using images. – Sexy Buttons [...]
Welcome to Z&R Computer Services’ New Website
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Z&R Computer Services has provided technical support, maintenance, upgrades, and consulting for Cedar Rapids area businesses since 2006. We provide friendly, personal service at competitive rates. Some examples of the services that our customers have requested include include: Wireless network provisioning and configuration for a small business office Spyware/Virus removal Anti-Virus software installation and configuration [...]