February 2012
13 posts
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Wilson Miner - When We Build
Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.
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Force Windows to forget a Network Share
Here’s the scenario, you’ve got a network share hooked up to a password protected drive, when you entered the login details for that share you ticked “remember password” so you don’t have to enter it every time you access that drive.
Times change and you need to use a different username & password, maybe it’s not your machine any more, sounds cool but...
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Hiding "Postgres" from Login on OSX Lion
After installing Postgres from official installer you’ll soon notice a new user on your Login screen, “Postgres”, to hide it perform the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add postgres
After your log-out and login again you won’t be presented with that user, to reverse this change do:
sudo defaults delete...
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Node.JS & CoffeeScript on OSX
Simple to do with HomeBrew
brew install node
After which you’ll have Node.JS minus NPM, the package manager. It’ll tell you how to do this by next executing
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
You’ll also need to add NODE_PATH to your .bash_profile (or .zshrc file if your using ZSH as a terminal replacement)
NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules
And as these modules...
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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.
Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
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Why Wordpress asks for FTP details →
Paypal - finding your API Keys
Paypal has to have the most cumbersome site design around, you’ll also notice that the US/Canada and UK sites all have different site layouts which unfortunately the help documentation doesn’t update to reflect this.
To find you API Keys on the US site:
Goto My Account
Then Profile
Then under Account Information, click Request API Credentials
Now you’ve got two choices,...
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Character Map for OSX
simple, Command-Option-T
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January 2012
13 posts
4 tags
Sublime Text, tabs as spaces
For me I prefer tabs rendered as spaces and kept down to a tab-size of 2. This is simple to set in Sublime Text.
First off open Sublime, select Preferences / File Settings - User and your personal File Settings preference file will be opened.
Now copy-and-paste this into the file,
"tab_size": 2,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true
Bang, from now on all your tabs will be translated as spaces...
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Package Control for Sublime Text
Sublime Text has some pretty useful plugins available for it allowing you to mould and shape it into just the right editor for your day-to-day use.
These packages you can download and install manually into the package directory, or you can use Package Control which is pretty simple to setup.
First off open Sublime Text, next from the menu-bar select View / Show Console.
From the console...
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Launch Sublime Text from the command-line
Sublime Text is quite the fancy editor and a definite step up from TextMate, to mirror the same launch from command-line that TextMate gives you just do this from the command-line:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
Making sure “/usr/local/bin” is in your .bash_profile path
Once in place you should be able to run Sublime...
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POW is running 99% of my CPU...
With POW 3.2 I’ve been noticing every once in a while it’ll choke and try and burn out my CPU, thankfully there’s a temporary fix with the PRE 4.0 release.
This you can install via
curl get.pow.cx | VERSION=0.4.0-pre sh
More info here
Color Palette
It’s cheesy but pretty usable
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running pow with apache #2
So when you install pow it also injects a rule in your firewall to route all traffic for port 80 to pow even if pow is shutdown, which kind of interfere’s with OSX Web Sharing MAMP, XAMP or whatever your using.
To get around this you could add:
export POW_DST_PORT=88
Then uninstall & re-install POW, it’ll see you want to use port 88 for POW, not install the firewall route and...
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running pow & apache together →
“pow and apache sitting in a tree, k i s s i n g”
"Hustle"
‘Hard Drive’ from Eighteen Eighty on Vimeo.
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VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has...
If with Apache you’re getting this error when deploying multiple name-based domains using port 443, or 80 for that matter
VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
Just edit your ports.conf (or httpd.conf)
sudo nano ports.conf
And add these,
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
Save and test your config again
sudo apache2ctl configtest
This should now...
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Install Dropbox on Debian Headless
from Terminal
wget https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/debian/nautilus-dropbox_0.7.1_i386.deb -o nautilus.deb
next install the debian package, and grab any dependencies needed with apt-get
sudo dpkg -i nautilus.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
You will also need python-gpgme for the daemon
sudo aptitude install python-gpgme
If needed, now install the daemon
dropbox start -i
Do...
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Apple Lion Recovery Assistant
Built right into OS X Lion, Lion Recovery lets you repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disc.
To do this all you’ll need is an external drive and the Recovery Tool available here http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433.
To create an external Lion Recovery, download the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant application. Insert an external drive (no bigger than 1GB),...
December 2011
9 posts
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Unable to install CS5 in OSX Lion Server 10.7...
If your getting something similar to this error:
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 106 error(s), 0 warning(s)
ERROR: DW001: Set payload cancelled status
ERROR: DW049: Payload {007A2A28-D6A8-4D91-9A2B-568FF8052215} has an action "install" but no resultState
ERROR: DW049: Payload {0175676F-8C92-49F2-9131-D0D6AD654B41} has an...
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Michael Caine - Acting in Film Workshop
WatchGit: Fast-forward Merging
WatchGit: Rebase
LeanCoffee - estimation
Raw Notes:
Software business so younger than other businesses that have been around a lot longer, construction
Have to schedule in black boxes that you know time goes in but who knows comes out, grey areas
Sales pipeline, have to take a guess
Ideally measuring business on a constant basis
Try to do a good postmortem on the project
Goal your getting to is unknown Break it down to known parts...
JavaScript Libraries Now Used by 50% of Top 1m Web... →
Each month, W3Techs checks the top 1 million Alexa ranked Web sites and analyzes the technologies they use. For the first time, JavaScript library usage across them has reached the 50% mark (with jQuery taking 83.4% of that).
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
3 posts
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Androidto : NFC with mobicartel notes
NFC with mobicartel
Greg carron, lead creative
Matthew patience, technical director
Proximity based architecture
Tags use no energy, typical use visa pay wave
NFC in google maps, maybe new applications with transit, giving real time track data. E.g. Ttc
Nfed push in android 4.0 and android beam that allows you to beam an app & URL to another device by placing them next to each...
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Androidto : Matthew fabb, adobe air notes
@matthewfabb
At stickeryou.com
Adobe air
Air being supported on most platforms, windows phone tbc, blackberry phones in the future hopefully.
Air 3
Big things,
Air native extensions, (ANE) so you can write native code and combine it into your air app. E.g. For android, iOS, etc.
Allows an air app to access any API
Ane file compiled sepaarately then binded into the air app
Growing dev...
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Androidto : Chris Saunders, mobile web apps
Shopify4j
@chrissuanders
Shopify
Define whether you need a mobile app or just craft to support mobile HTML. If you don’t have a big mobile team go for web based or at least use web based to figure out if you need to make the leap to native.
Remember, if you release an iPhone only or android only app you will risk alienating a portion of your customers.
Native:
Code reuse between...
September 2011
3 posts
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Stunnel - multiplatform SSL proxy →
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Creating Self-Signed Certificates →
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Getting POW to work with SSL →
August 2011
2 posts
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is...”
– J K Rowling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kh_tSiqL1U&NR=1
July 2011
6 posts
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Apple OSX Lion 10.7 - What's Changed
OSX Lion is the latest incarnation of Apple’s flagship operating system and last week the official GM seed was sent to developers for testing. Yesterday I put it through it’s paces and have been happily surprised with the performance and improvements laid out in the latest release, attached is a quick video of Lion in action in all it’s one solid O/S.
To note,
Launchpad for...
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WatchThe STS-135 Webcast looks back on the 30-year Space Shuttle Program’s accomplishments and ahead to the goals of the final mission with the crew, past shuttle astronauts and some of the people who made it all possible.