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Notepad++: Load langs.xml failed! — and how to fix it

I had been getting the “Load langs.xml failed!” whenever I started up Notepad++.  I’m running Windows 7 64-bit.

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Tags: NotePad

HTML Zen Coding: Speed up HTML creation

HTML Zen Coding is a plugin for many popular HTML editors that gives the web developer many tools for quickly building out HTML pages.  If you are comfortable (and enjoy) CSS selectors popular today in many frameworks (such as jQuery) then this may be for you.

When we build HTML documents, we are always building code that is repetitive, and we have ways of making that better.  Creative copying and pasting usually.  Sometimes I feel like I’m playing music on my keyboard when I do my copy paste and edit keyboards commands over and over.

With Zen Coding the process is much “simpler”.  You need to learn the syntax, which is straightforward for most selector friendly folks — but it will shorten your workload and let you do some things that you may have avoided before.

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Tags: Aptana, Coda, css selectors, Eclipse, editArea, Espresso, Expand Abbreviation, HTML, html editors, jQuery, komodo, NotePad, PSPad, Textarea, TextMate, web developer, Wrap with Abbreviation, Zen Coding

How you can fix IE8′s slow “View Source”

I installed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) on my main machine a few weeks ago, and have been using other browser’s “View Source” since IE8′s default View Source editor takes forever to load.

With all the work, I didn’t have time to figure out how to fix it, but YOU CAN!

IE8 uses an internal viewer by default, but you can easily change it:

1. Get into the Developer Tools screen (F12 or Tools->Developer Tools)
2. File->Customize Internet Explorer View Source (yeah I know, weird)
3. Set to Notepad (like it used to be) or “Other” and use your viewer (I used TextPad)

Now, can anyone recommend a better “View Source” application?  I haven’t looked into this, but it may be a great opportunity to improve efficiency doing HTML and debugging.

Tags: Developer Tools, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, NotePad, Textpad, View Source