Drosera [not] on Windows

Drosera is a pretty cool debugger for WebKit/Safari (Mac) - at least it's miles beyond what we've had to work with in the past...

Unfortunately, according to the official Drosera wiki page, it's not available for the Windows version of WebKit/Safari (yet):

Drosera on Windows
Drosera is currently not available on Windows. Much of Drosera is written in JavaScript and should require very little modifications to run on Windows. The Cocoa application wrapper is not portable will need to be rewritten using native Windows APIs. Hop onto our irc channel if you're interested in porting Drosera to Windows.

So hopefully some enterprising individuals will take the initiative and do the port.

Ajaxian - Companion.JS: IE Debugging

This could really come in handy, since debugging with Visual Studio or the MS Script editor can really be a pain sometimes:

Ajaxian - Companion.JS: IE Debugging, now supports console.log

Aptana IDE - with iPhone support!

Just found out about this plugin for Eclipse for doing JavaScript, HTML (and iPhone development!):

Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

Aptana: The Web IDE

You can also download a plugin for assisting with iPhone development:

Apple iPhone Support

The Apple iPhone Development Plugin (beta) enables the Aptana IDE to increase your iPhone development productivity.

Important Note...

I wanted to install Aptana over my existing eclipse installation (which you can), and I found that while installing it in this fashion it could generate exceptions if you installed it to the wrong directory.

I was unknowingly installing to the directory in which my MyEclipse plugin was installed, and it really didn't like that.

So after changing the installation directory to "c:\tools\aptana", the installation seems to have worked just fine. After installing the core IDE, then you can install the iPhone plugin directly from its start page.

iPhone Simulation on OS X with Marketcircle's iPhoney

A colleague just sent me a link to this product, since he heard that I wanted to work on a project for the iPhone, even though I do not currently possess one:

Marketcircle: iPhoney

Free, so it's worth a try I guess!

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

I'm really interested in this book that's now available for preorder on Amazon...

Amazon.com: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

I think this is something that we've been missing and is really crucial to have it codified. I've been visting Dustin Diaz' site (http://www.dustindiaz.com) for some time, and he has some really useful javascript tips, advice, and patterns... looking forward to the book!

DotNetNuke - Fixing a Strange Blog Module Error

It always makes me nervous when I have to crack open the source code for someone else's component, but that's pretty much what you have to do to get the DNN blog module to work correctly for registered users (this is evidently not a problem for admin-level users):

DotNetNuke Blogs - The server tag is not well formed, oh
my!
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/1496/Default.aspx

...turns out having a unicode accented "e" character is probably not a good thing. ;)

DotNetNuke - How to set the container width

Lately I was having an issue with a particular skin I have been using for a DotNetNuke-based site I'm working on- namely how to get the main content of the page to fill the whole page instead of constraining to 750 pixels or so.

Thankfully, I found the following post describing how to accomplish the adjustment, which ultimately was pretty straigtforward, though I wasn't thrilled with changing the skin's core CSS:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/48/threadid/127044/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Seems like this should have been a setting somewhere. Oh well...