I'm working a lot with ruby on rails and mysql lately, so I'm using the command line window a lot as well. Clicking Start»Run etc. to open a command line window and then navigating via DOS to each of your working directories is just too much sometimes, many times. If only there were a way to open a command window by right clicking a Windows Explorer folder ... Well, of course there is plus some other neat tools to help with images and syncing directories, to name just a few.

Most users still use Internet Explorer 6, while most developers have upgraded to ie7. So how do you test in ie6? Most people designate another machine as an ie6 box, and then turnoff automatic updates. Oops, it was upgraded by the new guy. Nice. Anyway, for one reason or another it would be sweet to run both ie6 and ie7 on the same computer. After a lot of googling "ie6 side by side install" and "ie standalone" etc., and reading a bunch of crap, I found a nice standalone version at browsers.evolt.org and a nice added dll from positioniseverything. So I zipped everything (link at bottom) and wrote these instructions. Enjoy!

Dreamweaver is my production HTML, JavaScript, PHP et al. editor. As such, Dreamweaver needs to correctly highlight all kinds of code in all kinds of document types. For example, I'm learning Drupal. Drupal uses modules to extend the core. These module files are PHP but use the file extension .module, which Dreamweaver does not recognize as PHP code, until we register the .module file extension as the PHP document type.

Testing Web pages with ActiveX content, such as Flash movies, locally in Internet Explorer can bring up the Information Bar, over and over, which is extremely annoying and makes testing even more of a chore for Web developers. Load page, click Information Bar, view content, load page, click Information Bar, view content, etc. Use the "Mark of the Web" trick to end this tedious cycle.