Maximixe Google Chrome on a Mac

So today I was playing with Google Chrome on my mac and have decided to make it my default browser for "Browsing the Internet". I say that because I will still use Firefox as my main browser for "Development Debugging" and of course like any other web developer I am forced to continue to support IE 6+, so for that I use Parallels and test on my VM.

Anyways, enough for the introduction to this post. Basically one thing I did not like about Google Chrome was that I could not maximize the window to my full screen size, well at least until now. I first tried using the default Mac option of clicking the green button on the window with the option key held down but that didn't work. All that did was maximize the window to the content within. So what is the answer you may ask?

Shift+Green Button

Yeap that is it, that will maximize your window to your full screen size. If this post was useful, let me know by leaving me a comment below.

Woo Hoo!!! I got Google Voice!!!!

So as the tile of my post says, I finally got my Google Voice invitation. You will notice now a "Call Me" widget on the right hand side of my blog. So go ahead and call me and leave me a message if you need to get in touch with me. I've opted to send it directly to voice mail for now but from time to time I may be picking it up.

Easy Code Syntax in Blog.

In order to prepare to write code on this blog, I decided to go ahead and see how the code syntax plugins worked and I found one called SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. So this is my test post. The following post by Carter Cole explains how to install and use.

Jumsoft Products and Coupon Code

Since it is the beginning of the new year I was set on finding a finance application to use on my mac. I've been a Microsoft Money user for over 5 years now and it was one of the last applications that I hung on to as a PC user. This past year I read somewhere that MS will no longer continue to develop and eventually support that application so I thought to myself if there was a better time to move it would be now, so my search began.

I checked a couple of applications and I just did not like the UI or the price was ridiculous until I ran into Money3 by Jumsoft. They got it right, at least in my opinion. The UI is great, the price is great and the accompanying iPhone app ... well great for my needs. There are a couple of things I wish it could do or maybe I just haven't played with it enough but they are as follows.

• Check Printing
• Apply payments to invoices as deposits to accounts

That's about it and as far as the check printing, a rep told me that there is a big update coming soon and that will most likely be part of it.

Anyways, enough of that, I think they have great products that any person using a mac should take a look at, so go ahead and check them out by clicking here. Now the little extra that I found out today by playing on their store. Pick any product(s) and in the coupon code field in your cart, type "APPLE" and you will get 50% off your purchase. Now I do not guarantee this or how long it will last but it was a discovery I made so here I am to share with you. Hopefully someone found this helpful and if so let me know.

Learning Objective-C and getting back to this ....

Ok, so as anyone who has landed here before already knows I don't post much, but one of my New Year Resolutions is to be a little more proactive with what I do. First a little update on me. I still have Fuse Developments up an running but at the same time I am the Senior ColdFusion Developer at Jobsite123.com LLC. I currently work with a great team of guys and I am learning new things everyday.

Finally after all these years I am using the ColdBox Framework, even though I was at Sandals back in the day when Luis and his colleagues decided to create this amazing framework I never got around to actually using it. Now that I have, I don't see myself doing any new projects without it. Also, I've noticed a lot of CF Bloggers love to use JQuery but I am a Prototype user by heart and I will make my best effort to write some tutorials about using this great JavaScript Framework along with it's companion animation suite, Scriptaculous.

One of the main reasons I don't blog much is my terrible grammar skills, which many of you will eventually experience. Maybe this will help me become a better writer/communicator ... we'll see. Also, I am self taught and sometimes I think I don't have much to offer but since my new job, I've realized that everyone always has something to offer and here goes my attempt.

So to summarize this is what I do, what I am learning and what I will be posting about in the near future.

• ColdFusion
  Expect version 8 and 9 tutorials and goodies.
• JavaScript
  Expect tutorials on using Prototype and Scriptaculous.
• CSSExpect tutorials on using css to create better layouts and leaving those nasty nested tables behind.
• Objective-C and Cocoa (Cocoa Touch)Yes after being a member for over a year I am finally taking the time to learn how to create Mac and iPhone applications and I may post things that I learn here.

That's pretty much it .... ohh and Happy New Year!!!!!