This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me.

Php coders should understand this one.

sub echo(input)
response.write(replace(input,"'",""""))
end sub

The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output html.

Enjoy

I use this loads but can never seem to find it on the internet. It allows you to commit and update direct from the Dreamweaver context menu. The old URL it was hosted at (nearlygeek.com) is no more.

You do need to have Tortoise SVN installed and it only seems to work with Windows.

Enjoy

Click here to download

03/10/08 – UPDATE:

Thanks to my work buddy Dave I have now found a much better and equally as free extension called SubWeaver which is available from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/subweaver/

Essential tip for OSX users. Not just pretty on the eyes but bloody useful.

Just add the following lines to ~/.bash_profile

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/02/color-your-os-x-command-prompt/

A few us have been using Chrome here in the office today a and first impressions are generally good.

I’m not going to run down the whole feature list, only what was obvious to me right away.

• Pages render at lightening speed, it feels faster than FireFox.
• Element inspector – a firebug style debug tool built in.
• Omnibox – makes sense to just have one input box in the top bar although I do keep entering URL’s without the HTTP:// which returns a google search. Habit I guess.
• Ability to drag tabs to a new or existing instance of Chrome.
• Crashes don’t kill the whole app, only the current tab.
• Easy install, imported bookmarks & history effortlessly.
• Speed dial – loved this in opera, nuff said.
• I haven’t come across any sites it has broken yet although I know there are some found by others.
• Bookmarking functions seem a little basic (thanks Rich).
• It looks and feels great!

Interestingly, it identifies itself as “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13“ 

I’m curious about the Safari bit, wonder if this matches the Chrome render engine most closely.

I have set it as my default Windows browser for now, will report how I get on.

Following on from yesturdays web comic teaser the world is eagerly awaiting the full release of Google’s (Open Source) Chrome browser, which according to the Google Blog should be at some point today. There are already some screenshots floating around the web and I’m as interested hell to get my hands on it.

From a web developers point of view I’m fascinated by the potential impact this could have on browsing and the Internet. Google don’t have a habit of doing things by halves and from the initial information, Chrome is no exception. Only time will tell.

My first iPhone application review is now online. Check it out here.