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.
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 [...]
Every web developer knows how it goes - now matter how many times you tell your clients not to includes spaces, slashes, etc. in the files they want posted on their website, they do it anyways - it’s part of the deadline-driven work flow. Let’s take a basic look at how to fix this easily [...]