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Keeping your hits out of your Google Analytics reports

There is a bunch of stuff written about how to do this. Easy if you have a static IP (what work at home developer does?), doable with a cookie if you are on the old synchronous code snippet for GA, but if you are on the new asynch stuff (recommended) v tricky. After spending(wasting) 3 hours on this I finally just clicked the AVG do not track icon in chrome and unchecked GA. This is a bit of a sledgehammer approach as it switches off GA for all your browsing. Not quite what I was after, but it is more important to me to avoid treading on my GA reports than it is to keep other site owners - and indeed Google -  happy.

Great front end dev tools slides

These  slides are from Paul Irish. I thought I knew quite a few front end tools (maybe too many), but this  uncovered a heap more. It took me about 2 hours to watch the associated video and take a brief look at each some of the technologies mentioned. The vid is just over 30 minutes long, so info rich.

Zen Coding speeds up your workaday typing

If you find yourself typing a lot of angle brackets in a text editor as you manually create html, then Zen Coding is a big help. All the details are here . I have the plugin working on eclipse now and it really speeds things up. Type div#content and hit tab and the text is replaced with <div id="content"></div> Obviously a trivial example, but there are many more speedups made possible with this. There is a handy cheat sheet (well 7 sheets) of hints here . Looking forward to getting proficient at this so that I can speed up my normal daily editing. There are plugins for a load of editors besides eclipse. A note for eclipse users: the stated shortcut of ctrl+E does not work out of the box. This is because tab is in its place (handier it is too). I discovered this even after unbinding switch editor (which is also ctrl+E). Zen coding is just one of the handy hints I got from watching this video from Paul Irish. http://paulirish.com/2012/talk-tooling-the-we