Category " Development"

There is a bit of discussion over on the new favorite social network Google+. Some enterprising folks are copying Google’s short URL for accessing Google which appends a plus sign following the domain like so: mysticcoders.com/+. In this short article we’ll show you several methods of achieving this on your WordPress blog from cleanest, to [...]

Developing interactivity in your website pages will require you, to build a portion of it with javascript. If that javascript needs to perform its actions when the DOM has finished loading, you have several options depending on if you are using a javascript library or not. If you’re going the non-library route, you can do the following

It would seem that Sun^HOracle is actually able to think outside the box a bit. The latest way they’re trying to get folks to learn JavaFX, is by a new online interactive game called PIE Theory. The idea is that you follow along with our two heroes, and help them unlock clues based on performing [...]

Humans love shiny. And there’s nothing more shiny to a programmer than a brand new version of a tool used every day. Here at Mystic we use IRC as our primary mode of communication and project collaboration, and several of us have chosen Weechat. Recently we wrote about receiving irc notifications from Weechat over ssh, [...]

Our initial plugin for IDEA that talked to MysticPaste.com was fairly simple, offered no feedback to the user that anything happened. I spent some time trying to find out a method of achieving unobtrusive notification that the paste was successful. On initial glance at the API, nothing jumped out except for Messages, and StatusBar.

From the beginning of building out Mystic Paste, the vision was to have multiple interfaces to allow ubiquitous use of the pastebin. With the variety of plugins we’ve got out now including Eclipse, IDEA, VIM, and NetBeans, that vision is definitely here. If you reached this link looking for the plugin, look no further, the [...]

In our previous post, we showed you how to use socat, ssh, and some fancy footwork to pipe a UDP-based request coming from Net::Growl, through a TCP-based reverse-proxy ala SSH, and back to the Mac as a UDP-request straight to Growl. What happens if you’ve got more than one person wanting to do the same [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of remote work using IRC. And due to the heavy use of best of breed tools under OSX and Linux, we find ourselves working in a shell a lot of the day, along with our IDE. We like to keep in the Flow state for as much of [...]

Don’t get me wrong, Mystic Paste is great! However if I’m on ##wicket and someone asks a question about some code, and I know I’ve written that code, I want to be the first to respond. I don’t want some n00b making me look like a n00b by responding first So instead of: copying code [...]

Heath Kesler was the final presentation of the day that I attended, and covered one of the other hot topics these days, SOA. Many enterprises have attached to the ideal of a service oriented architecture, but have found issues during implementation that the core team were unable to overcome. Charly^HHeath put together an informative presentation [...]