Category Archives: Computers
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 | 3 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
I guess this is an old unix trick, but I didn’t know it: sudo su - You must have sudo rights (ie: be an administrator). Thanks, Jeremy!
June 4, 2008 | Computers | No comments
After a probably much non-missed stint of downtime this piece of shit blog is finally back up and running. The upgrade process took a bit more than expected. Read on for the whole boring story.
February 25, 2008 | Computers | 3 comments
I’ve been making incremental updates to my TextMate bundle updater for a while now and can finally publish the updated script. It now properly handles updating installed bundles and adds the ability to update only a single bundle and to list installed bundles. Read on for the nitty gritty.
January 17, 2008 | Computers | No comments
I was one of the people last year that jumped on the MacHeist bundle with glee because it had some interesting applications like Disco and Delicious Library, but I did it mainly for TextMate. To this day I use TextMate almost every day. The others, not so much. Disco once in a while and I’m [...]
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Huh. I’ve got comments here I never got notification emails for. There’s no mail error logs on the server. I have no mail notifications in my mailbox, and no records of those emails in my spam filter. It would seem they just vanished into thin air…
December 12, 2007 | Computers | 4 comments
I was having an annoyance on my MBP for a while where MDS (Spotlight) would start indexing and try to hijack the machine… it was working hard and at random intervals. Then it hit me… Parallels was typically active at the same time (despite Windows being "idle" inside the VM), usually jumping to about 25-25% [...]
October 12, 2007 | Computers | 1 comment
I love Apple to death, but sometimes they do things that really, really bug the hell out of me. The latest being the software update application for Windows. I made it a point that since my Windows XP installation is in Parallels that I didn’t need to install iTunes. Well, with Safari 3 came the [...]
June 14, 2007 | Computers | No comments
So, while the Safari 3 beta is nice in many ways, and showing much promise on Windows, I was disappointed to find out that it still required a trip to the terminal to turn on the Inspector element. So, if you want to check out elements in a page and how they’re styled open up [...]
June 12, 2007 | Computers | No comments
This script has been updated This script was updated on 2008/01/17. Since the version released here had a fatal flaw I have replaced the file linked below. Click here to see the details on the latest version of this script. I’m lazy. I’ll admit it. It comes at weird expenses though. I’m too lazy to [...]
May 31, 2007 | Computers | 2 comments
So, apparently the OS X EULA forbids virtualizing OS X in any form. And, no, I’m not late to this party, I just finally felt like writing about it (I really need to start writing regularly again). I’m wondering what the overall use of this is? Is it to protect the OS X experience? To [...]
May 4, 2007 | Computers | 5 comments
