Recent versions of webkit browsers and firebug support the monitorEvents method, which takes a DOM object as it’s only argument and will spit out every event occurring on that object to the console. So you can run a bit of code like so

    monitorEvents(document.getElementBy('someid'))

where someid is the id of the thing you want to monitor and you’re all set without ever having to touch your own code.

You can view the slides over on Speaker Deck and a repository for the code has been created over on GitHub.

Thanks to everyone that made it out!

Sure, you could open up finder, find your remote machine in the “Shared” list, click on it, wait, and then click on “Share Screen” or we can just use Alfred.

With this little extension installed, just fire up Alfred and plug in vnc followed by the name of a machine you have Back to My Mac setup on and that’s it, you’ll be screen sharing in no time.

Download the Back to My Mac Alfred Extension

Have you ever had a channel in an ExpressionEngine installation that required its own set of custom fields, but only needed one entry? Perhaps a homepage or an “About Us” section that needed its own custom content but wasn’t a traditional list of posts? Single Entry can help. With a few simple settings, your control panel can be set up to easily create and edit these posts without the risk of adding new and unnecessary entries to these channels.

Once configured, Single Entry moves your single entry channels out of EE’s standard publish and edit workflow and into a new section of your content dropdown. From there, you’ll have quick access to creating and editing the individual entries in those channels without the hassle of navigating through the standard EE edit workflow or accidentally creating a new entry in a channel that can’t use one.

Best of all, your data and development workflow aren’t changed in any way. Single entry channels are still completely native and can be assigned custom field groups, category groups and statuses, and used in templates just like always. And through the configuration panel, even the name of the new section in the content dropdown can be customized.

Single Entry is Viget’s first ever commercial ExpressionEngine Addon and available exclusively at Devot-EE

For my part, I’ll be speaking about writing custom plugins for your projects. Everything from how to get started and the basics of plugin authoring to more advanced features and how to leverage some of ExpressionEngine’s CodeIgniter backbone to accomplish even more custom work without overburdening your templates with inline PHP.

One trick I found helpful was to hotkey a folder for quick access to my most used directories on my computer. If you have the power pack, it’s quite simple. Open up your Alfred preferences and go to the Global Hotkeys panel. Add a new hotkey and instead of selecting an app or a file, just select a folder for the “action” and set your hotkey.

Now, using that hotkey will open a finder window for that directory; it’s that simple. I currently use CMD + ` to open my Dropbox folder and CMD + ALT + ` to open my mounted file server.

We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action.

The original feed http://markupboy.com/rss should continue to work and all of the old urls for that feed should be redirecting to it. There is also an new alternate feed at feeds.feedburner.com/markupboy that will be the new canonical feed going forward.

You can view the project over on github or download the plugin from devot:ee.

Installation

Place the nearby plugin folder in your ExpressionEngine installation’s third_party folder (system/expressionengine/third_party by default).

Since Nearby makes user of the GeoNames API, a GeoNames user account will be required to use more than the demo mode provided. You can sign up for one at www.geonames.org/login

Once your account is created and activated, you will need to log in to the GeoNames site, click your username in the top right of the page to bring up the user control panel and then click the “Click here to enable” link under the title “Free Web Services” to enable API usage on your account.

Once your account is fully enabled, you can pass your username to the plugin via the “username” parameter or set your username in your config.php file with the code:

$config['nearby_username'] = "YOUR USERNAME";

Usage

{exp:nearby}

Parameters:

• zip (required) - the zipcode you’d like to search on
• limit - limit the number of results returned
• radius - distance in miles to search surrounding the desired zipcode
• username - your GeoNames username

Single Variables:

• {zip} - zipcode of result
• {placename} - plain text descriptor of result
• {latitude} - latitude of result, in decimal
• {longitude} - longitude of result, in decimal
• {distance} - the result’s distance from the searched zipcode

{/exp:nearby}