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Fitness update
I enjoyed going to the Clayton Art Fair today after lunch. We walked around for about an hour and a half. Tonight I walked Kuma in the park and did the normal route twice, for a total of an hour of brisk walking (~4.25 miles). All in all, a good day of locomotion. During my…
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Prototype Carousel – Javascript scrolling window
This class is a Prototype/script.aculo.us version of the excellent Bill Scott’s Carousel component. I needed it to be able to use it in Ruby On Rails application without using the 200KB of YUI JS classes. This library is licensed under a MIT-style license, so you can use it for anything you like, as long as…
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Unix command line tip of the day: How to recursively add all newly added files to Subversion in an existing working copy
When using Subversion for version control, if you have a working copy checked out and then you want to add a variety of new files and directories to the existing ones, you might do something like this: [code]cp -R newfiles/* files/[/code] Unfortunately, svn add only will add files or directories in the immediate directory unless…
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Google Apps for Your Domain – Offer Gmail, Chat, Calendar and Web Pages for free to your users
Very interesting move here by Google. We’re pretty tempted to check this out and see what we could do with it. I would like to know what the pricing will be eventually, and what their projected timeline for the free beta program will be. Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer our communication and…
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Bandwidth speed test comparing DSL, Palm Treo 700p Sprint EVDO over USB and Bluetooth on a G4 Powerbook running OS X Tiger 10.4.7
After upgrading to the latest version of USB Modem (Version 1.5 that now adds support for connection via Bluetooth for Treo 700p), I decided to do a speed test using my regular DSL connection and the two available connection methods for the Treo 700p – Bluetooth and USB. I’ve been using the USB modem connection…
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Cocoa XML-RPC Client
Pretty slick tool for testing an XML-RPC server for OS X. Cocoa XML-RPC Client XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/08/01/cocoa-xml-rpc-client/
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Fix for PHP PEAR on OS X 100% CPU problem
I was rebuilding PHP 5.1.4 for my G4 PowerBook to use with Apache 2.2.2 and MySQL 5.* when I ran into this problem using PEAR: When I would run a command like: pear install Log PEAR would download the package, indicate that it was done, and then hang, consuming 100% of the CPU and never…
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Reason #206 to own a Treo 700p : Be an emergency ISP
We had a MAJOR thunderstorm rip through St. Louis yesterday that knocked out power, telephone and other services for much of the entire region. Many large trees were literally snapped in half. Tower Grove Park looks like a giant went through it with a baseball bat and started knocking down trees left and right. Reason…
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Top 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant
Link to 30 Ruby on Rails tutorials: Top 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/07/17/top-30-ruby-on-rails-tutorials-ultimate-web-developer-lists-econsultant/
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How-to: Run the Mac OS 9 (Classic) version of Concord on a new Mac OS X (Intel) Macbook
The one biggest application that my mom wanted to have running on her shiny new Macbook was Concord. A program that the publisher has not updated in many years. And that, for Macintosh, assuming you already have a copy, will not run under the new OS X Intel version, since Apple really wants OS 9…