Category Archives: Computers
I just updated the WordPress TexMate Bundle with some new features. Cron/Scheduled Events I’ve never really worked with the built in Cron in WordPress but have heard others talk about how much of a pain it is. After recently reading a Sitepoint.com article on scheduling events I was able to get the jist of it. [...]
July 22, 2010 | Plugins, TextMate | 1 comment
Rejoice! There’s a way to set the tab with of the view-source window in Firefox. In March of this year Mozilla finally added an about:config option to control the tab-width in Firefox. I’m on Firefox 3.6.6 and it works like so: Enter about:config in the url bar. Filter the list (using the search box at [...]
July 15, 2010 | Computers | No comments
Today marks the release of WordPress 3.0 and with this release the WordPress TextMate Bundle is ready for it. The bundle had been updated to support the new features in WordPress 3.0 including, but not limited to: custom post types, featured images, and WordPress MU integration. The menu has been rearranged a little bit and [...]
June 17, 2010 | Plugins, TextMate, Web Design & Development | 1 comment
So, I can’t count how many times I’ve opened a single file for editing in TextMate and then realized that I need to do more than just edit that one file. And most of the time the other files that I need to edit are in the same folder as the file that I’m currently [...]
May 27, 2010 | TextMate | No comments
Just a quick tip here. Panic’s web-focused IDE Coda uses SubEthaEdit’s rendering engine. Coda uses an OLDER version of SubEthaEdit’s rendering engine. So if you want to add syntax highlighting modes to Coda they have to be older versions. I wanted to add the Bash syntax mode from SubEthaEdit to Coda, but had to go [...]
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By default Etherpad wants a local mail server to send email. We didn’t want to muck around with the security details of hosting a mail server so we decided to use our catch all GMail account to send email. The only problem was that Etherpad wasn’t set up to do TLS authentication when sending email. [...]
March 15, 2010 | Computers | 1 comment
My MacBook Pro has been acting up again lately. Crashes, stalls, and overall wacky goodness. Yesterday I pulled it out of my bag after getting home and although I had put it to sleep, and confirmed that it was asleep before packing it away, it had crashed on the way home. When I restarted it [...]
February 3, 2010 | Computers | 4 comments
Ever. Sheerly out of principle. This is from a Macbook Pro “late 2008″ connected to a Samsung HDTV over VGA because all of my HDMI ports are taken.
December 24, 2009 | Computers | 1 comment
So while my dad is reinstalling Windows after being wiped out by a virus that got by both IE 8 and McAfee I’m installing Fedora on an old HP I have lying around. My dad is gonna give Linux a try for a while. He’s fed up. I figure its worth a shot. He wants [...]
October 20, 2009 | Computers | No comments
I guess its just kinda worked out that the forums that I participate in all deal with BBCode and their text formatting. S’okay – I’ve been doing one thing or another in BBCode since, well, BBCode came out. At one point I even wrote my own expanded parser. But the time involved in posting flickr [...]
September 12, 2009 | Computers | No comments
Long story short: If you have a closed system and have to store signed integers in a MySQL varchar field you can still get the benefits of the signed integer by type casting the field during the query.
August 10, 2009 | Computers | 1 comment
So, I’m constantly switching between using an external monitor and the built in display on my MacBook Pro. The only application that doesn’t seem to like this is iTunes. Whenever I unplug the monitor iTunes most of the time won’t adjust. The little green “resize window” button is of no use in iTunes because it [...]
August 9, 2009 | Computers | No comments
These two have always been questions in my mind but until recently I’ve never had the need to actually put time in to satisfying my curiosity and as I look around I haven’t (easily) found any real world examples of these out there. So, we all know how to set up basic HTTP authentication, right? [...]
July 10, 2009 | Code, Computers | 4 comments
Ever needed to quickly scan a directory full of PHP files for syntax errors? You can do this quickly on a *nix command line with: find . -type f -name \*.php -exec php -l {} \;
June 26, 2009 | Computers, PHP Scripting | 2 comments
Unibody MacBook Pro + MCE OptiBay + Seagate Momentus 500GB drive = 768 GB of useable hard drive space. I bit the bullet and purchased the MCE OptiBay and a big fat hard drive for my MacBook Pro. I needed more space to allow my penchant for virtual machines to grow as well as keep [...]
June 24, 2009 | Computers | 4 comments
As the name implies this is a TextMate bundle to assist with WordPress development. Where I work we’re on WordPress almost every day doing this or that and it gets pretty tedious to not only remember the schizophrenia that is PHP syntax, but the schizophrenia that is my own code as well as the schizophrenia [...]
April 29, 2009 | Code, Computers, Plugins | 1 comment
Its probably nothing new but I came up with a way to do client side post- or pre-svn actions. Its nothing revolutionary but has already come in handy. The script is *nix only (though I don’t see why the same process wouldn’t work on Windows if it supports command line aliases like *nix does). I [...]
April 23, 2009 | Code, Computers | 1 comment
I just learned this morning that Subversion since version 1.4 will cache passwords on OS X using the OS X Keychain. Lack up support for multiple passwords with Subversion has been a frustration for me for quite a while, but lo and behold its been under my nose the whole time.
March 30, 2009 | Computers | No comments
Sheesh! I think the spam world noticed that I switched to WordPress. Plenty of Spam in just a few hours. Looks like I’ll need to port my old spam reduction strategy over to WordPress. Might make for a decent plugin too, who knows.
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I don’t think Apple really thought this one through. The new MacBooks and MacBook Pros have easily replaceable hard drives. This is one of the things that really made me want to get one as I wanted to have a dedicated Linux hard drive to play around on and not bork my main work drive [...]
March 5, 2009 | Computers | 6 comments
<valleygirl>Seriously?</valleygirl> I was being diligent, not upgrading Apache through MacPorts ’cause I didn’t want to deal with the 3 year old bug that causes and Apache upgrade to overwrite your vhosts file, but MacPorts decided that since I was upgrading PHP that Apache should be upgraded as well. So it blew away my vhosts file. [...]
November 18, 2008 | Computers | 1 comment
Hey, Apple: I know of all the things that are wrong with the iPhone (what, you mean its not perfect?) is that my icons move with every application update… bah! Is it a stupid thing to be complaining about? I don’t think so. Part of being a designer means having a propensity to be anal-rententive [...]
August 20, 2008 | Computers | No comments
I can’t even count how many times I’ve edited a read only file in VIM, not even noticing the warning that pops up telling me so. Its a royal pain to type in thing twice, especially config changes. After a little looking around I found a way around it. Its not perfect and its not [...]
July 28, 2008 | Computers | No comments
I work with many different servers at work. Most tedious part is that I need to ssh in to them on a regular basis. Not all of them can I, nor do I feel should I, be adding SSH keys on to. So I finally got around to writing a little script to hold onto [...]
June 26, 2008 | Computers | No comments
For PC: Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2) or later; Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3, Firefox 2, or later. Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later recommended. So, Apple’s pushing the dependency wagon to IE7. Love it. The faster IE6 is out of here the better.
June 9, 2008 | Computers | No comments
