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Invoke Quicksilver In All Spaces After 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Upgrade 8 Sep 2009 | 05:58 pm
After upgrading to 10.6 my beloved Quicksilver had grown some new bad habits. If I wasn’t in the first space (#1 / top left), Quicksilver would bring me back there every time I invoked it. So if I was...
Solve Slow iDisk Syncing After Upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 8 Sep 2009 | 05:45 pm
I use iDisk Sync (via MobileMe) to keep my desktop and my laptop in sync so I don’t have to remember to copy files back and forth every time I grab one or the other. This worked great until my upgrade...
Sync And Share Your iCal Calendar With Multiple People Using BusySync and Google Calendar 11 Jan 2009 | 08:40 pm
My wife and I keep our calendars in iCal, but without some divine intervention we couldn’t sync our calendars or view each other’s calendar in iCal. We ran into this same issue at the office as well –...
Database Exports From phpMyAdmin Add Garbage Text After Every Link 11 Jan 2009 | 08:17 pm
This is an issue that has plagued me for months and months, and I finally found a way around this VERY strange bug. For some reason, exporting a database from phpMyAdmin inserts garbage after EVERY L...
Set media=print Using The CakePHP CSS HtmlHelper 19 Jul 2008 | 06:17 am
It seemed so simple, yet it took forever to figure this one out. I’ve been using CakePHP for several projects lately, and I’m really enjoying using it. But much of the documentation is lacking. Luckil...
Hidden Files in OS X Finder – No Terminal Hacking With Path Finder 22 Dec 2007 | 01:27 pm
I posted a way to show hidden files in OS X’s Finder a while back and have found a much better option that I thought I’d share. Path Finder from cocoatech is an amazing app, and even with the improvem...
Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 31 Oct 2007 | 04:28 pm
With the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent (but not robust) installatio...
Save Time (and code) Using Virtual Hosts For Local OS X Web Development With mod_rewrite 5 Oct 2007 | 06:38 pm
UPDATE: This tutorial was written for OS X 10.4 and parts of it are no longer necessary with OS X 10.5. See this post for details. Using a few built-in tools in OS X, I’ve found a great way to develo...
Show Hidden Files in OS X’s Finder 2 Oct 2007 | 04:31 pm
In web development on the Apache web server, a common configuration file used in nearly every site we build is the .htaccess file. But in OS X, you can’t see it in the Finder – hidden files (files whi...
Tell Your iPhone to Stop Opening iPhoto! 14 Sep 2007 | 05:50 pm
Every time I plugged in my iPhone, it had this nasty habit of opening iPhoto for me. Not because it wanted to drive me to drink, but because iPhoto is set to open any time a digital camera is connecte...
