The OS that has solved all my problems. I used to be a Windows admin person for a small company, who used Linux at home, and wished for an OS that was like Linux but could run PhotoShop - enter OS X.
Suddenly I noticed that my beloved TextExpander just stops working/expanding for no apparent reason. Restarting the app didn’t work, but what does work is restarting Firefox.
I guess there’s some conflict between Firefox version 3.6.x and the TextExpander engine. So the quick fix seems to be to just restart Firefox when this happens.
Evidently, this isn’t fixed [...]
I’ve been checking out Launchbar, thinking replacing my beloved Quicksilver because supposedly it is not being worked on much anymore. While viewing these very helpful Launchbar Video tutorials, I noticed one of them was about Tweeting from Launchbar. For firing off a quick tweet, this is very handy.
However, I had problems getting the script mentioned [...]
This article describes a simple shell script that backs up your local MySQL databases. It also goes into how to automate the process so it runs everyday using a cron job. Handy!
I’ve been spending more time than usual using the Terminal, and I like how quick it to get around the file system. Today, while messing with the linux find command, I started to wonder if I could search for a folder, and then open it as a project in TextMate, all with a one line [...]
In this short article, I cover some of the lesser known mac keyboard shortcuts that are nice because many allow your hands to remain in the standard keyboard position, and don’t require the arrow keys. I also cover some of the Firefox shortcuts I use the most.
A bit about CakePHP, but more about getting several virtual hosts/domains up and running on Leopard. For example, you can setup www.testsite1.dev and www.testsite2.dev with full PHP/MySQL database-driven goodness.
When you find yourself updating the same static HTML files over and over again, like with a newsletter, BBEdit’s templating feature can really save you time and your clients money. Here’s an example of the process I use with a bi-weekly HTML newsletter I do.
So yeah, as I check out Emacs, I also checkout things in Textmate that I might not know about, and I’m learning that Textmate can do *lots* more cool stuff than I thought it could. One of those is (yes!) Textmate does have Python debugging built in (both PyCheckMate as well as the standard Python [...]
Trouble with installing Emacs on Leopard? This may help.
As I pursue my python adventures, I of course wanted to learn how to do one of the things I do most - pull data out of MySQL. It seems the simplest way to start doing that is Python is to use MySQL-Python. So, after a downloading the package from SourceForge, and following the [...]