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I love fixed backgrounds. So, I made a version of Sam‘s Pixel theme with a fixed background (which you can see on the blog already). It even supports IE6 (well, almost) – thanks, ie7-js!

Note: I re-exported the background from the original PSD as a PNG, since it’s too beautiful to be degraded by JPEG compression artifacts. The PNG is about 350kb in size – so, if that bothers you, convert it to JPEG and edit style.css accordingly.

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Starting with a new hourly-paid freelancing job, I needed some software to track the amount of time I spend working. I tried a few time tracking programs out there, but they all turned out to be bloated and clumsy (not to mention not open-source), so I decided to roll my own. (continue reading…)

The Eclipse IDE doesn’t use the overwhelmingly common Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts to switch editor tabs. Not only that, it doesn’t even allow you to bind these keys to the classic Ctrl+Tab behavior (switch to the tab left/right of the current one). However, Ctrl+PageUp/Down seem to be hard-coded to switching tabs the good-old way, so it’s just a matter of remapping Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab to those keys.

Here’s my AutoHotKey solution:

#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
^Tab::Send ^{PgDn}
#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
^+Tab::Send ^{PgUp}

If you’re one of the few crazies like me who prefer doing web development using command-line tools, you might appreciate this simple command-line calculator which can operate on RGB colors. It supports the 4 basic arithmetic operations and grouping using parens. (continue reading…)

Ever had to deal with annoying conflicts between various command-line utilities sharing the same name? Ever wanted to use different versions of the same command-line software package? Tired of manually editing the environment or using “development environment command line” batch files? Then this plugin is for you! (continue reading…)