Netbeans, jQuery, and Intellisense

Filed under app, ide, intellisense, jquery, netbeans

NetBeans has finally brought version 7.0 out of beta, and though I’m still learning my way around, so far, so great.

Aside from installing some must-have plugins one thing I immediately did was stash away a VSDoc for jQuery (a link to one for 1.5 and more info here) inside a folder, globally included.

Why? Two reasons: 1) jQuery rocks and I use it all the time and 2) Netbeans knows how to work with them and give out some official Microsoft-style intellisense on top of its already amazing, predictive code-hinting. There are a few hiccups here and there, but certainly nothing to complain about.

Mactracker = useful little app

Filed under app, info, Mac, mactracker

I was introduced to this little app way back in the early 2000′s – i.e. before I was a Mac guy. At that point I thought it to be mildly interesting and completely useless. Why would I want and/or need to know how much a Macintosh IIx cost or what its startup chime was?

Well, I still don’t really care about that particular information aside from its historic interest, but I find myself using Mactracker more and more for actual, practical reasons.

For example, when my old boss asked me to help find and install RAM into his eMac (not a typo), Mactracker had the answer. I use it to store information like serial numbers and warranty info about all of my machines, too. I’ve found it most useful, though, to identify a particular model of mac and specific information about it (not so much the startup chimes). Case in point: when going in with a friend to buy an external hard drive as a birthday present for another friend, we needed to consult Mactracker to find out what types of ports his machine had. As phenomenally awesome a present a brand spanking new HD is, it’s value is diminished somewhat if you can’t hook it up to your machine…

Oh, and Mactracker is free. Yeah, free. So go get it if you haven’t already