General - Kais Notes

One Reason Computer Screens Aren’t Green-On-Black Anymore

October 6, 2014

That is an interesting article on why Computer Screens are not green-on-black anymore. Although, many developers like to have their terminal/IDE screen look like that, myself included, there are other people who finds it uncomfortable, and the reason for that is astigmatism! Apparently, people with astigmatism have a hard time reading white text on a black background, or green text in this case because of…

Print Plugin for Sublime Text

August 6, 2014

Simple Print Function is an awesome plugin for Sublime text editor which allows you to print directly from Sublime. This plugin has been submitted to Package Control now! You can install by selecting Package Control: Add Repository and adding https://github.com/svenax/SublimePrint. Useful Links: Package Control: Simple Print Function on Package Control GitHub Link: https://github.com/svenax/SublimePrint/ Sublime text : http://www.sublimetext.com/

Postman – REST Client for your Chrome

June 25, 2014

Postman is an amazing plugin for Google Chrome, it alows developers to create requests quickly and work easily with REST APIs directly from Chrome without the need to create test or sample apps.

It provide all the needed REST actions such as POST/GET/PUT/DELETE … etc As well as Formatted API responses for JSON and XML

Useful Chrome shortcuts for Mac

June 24, 2014

Here is a list of the most common keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome on Mac! Its really useful.

⌘+N Opens a new window.
⌘+T Opens a new tab.
⌘+Shift-N Opens a new window in incognito mode.
⌘+click a link Opens the link in a new tab in the background

JSONView, a must have plugin for developers

April 11, 2014

If you are a developer dealing with JSON all the time, you would love JSONView plugin for Google Chrome.
JSONView will beautify JSON objects viewed on the browser, so you don’t have to dig into 100+ lines of code trying to figure out how the JSON is structured.