Archive for the tag 'plugins'

Firefox plugin wanted: Pretty-Printer for JSON

Hmm, when you start working with a bunch of webservices that spit out JSON (really, it’s inevitable; leave XML for interfacing with the Big Iron, especially since almost noone seems to understand when to use attributes, and so most docs are 95% elements), you’re going to want a nice way to look at the output for visual debugging. That’s one thing the current crop of browsers finally got right, is being able to pretty-print XML, even without a default stylesheet. For example, here’s what I get in Firefox for part of a sample document (cropped, the doc is valid!): Read more »

Upgrade fun

I really wanted to try out this WordPress plugin called ImageHeadlines that created images of your title headlines from any TrueType font. It’s a neat idea, and you can make your headlines really look cool with dropshadows, etc. One not-so-minor problem: my PHP install doesn’t have a working FreeType installation. “Well, time to fix that,” I figured. Read more »