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Feb 23

Wilson Miner - When We Build

Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.

Feb 22

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 Windows has remembered those details and isn’t giving you any help in reseting them.

Here’s how.

In a minute you’ll be presented with a list of all the network share’s Windows has remembered for your machine, find the one you want to change expand it and edit or delete it to start again.

Think of it like OSX’s keychain only less intuitive.

Feb 21

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 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList

More here

Feb 20

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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 include binaries add this to your standard PATH environ,

/usr/local/share/npm/bin

With these all in place you’ll be ready to install the coffeescript module with NPM via

npm install -g coffee-script

And presto, you can now begin to execute any .coffee script file via

coffee [myscript.coffee]

Feb 18

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.

Feb 16

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