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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Jason’s new law of string manipulation coding
Never do in 65 lines of messy string manipulation loops what you can accomplish in 3 lines of RegEx code. Backreferences rock. For the curious, I was trying to “englishify” hours of business information, so a set of 14 open/close … Continue reading
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Building Scalable Web Sites
As follow up to my Carson Workshops post, I just noticed that Cal Henderson has a book out called Building Scalable Web Sites, and it’s on Safari. Added. Speaking of Safari, I like the new look, but I really miss … Continue reading
Posted in Interweb++
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July 19 is going to be Flick-tastic!
I just registered for Carson Workshops’ Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget seminar! Yay! Seriously, I’m stoked. I’ve never seen a program outline so in sync with the kind of stuff I do on a daily basis, and Cal’s … Continue reading
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Riding the virtualization train
Remember that new hardware I wrote about the other day? The idea, at the time, was to run the Vista beta 2. Except it didn’t install. OK, if I run another OS I can do it in Virtual PC and … Continue reading
Posted in Debian, General
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Wednesday quickies
Two quick thoughts today: 1) If you’re a company offering consulting services in the field of business development, you probably shouldn’t do your website in Microsoft Office. I’m not being a design snob here (note the default WordPress template in … Continue reading
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Desktop Tuesday Review of Mobile Monday
I made it out to Toronto’s inaugural Mobile Monday last night. There have been a lot of tech get-togethers sprouting up as of late (BarCamp, DemoCamp, Mesh, Social Tech, etc.), but this one was a bit different. A different crowd, … Continue reading
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Simple mechanics elude me
I paid for a bunch of my schooling by working with computer hardware, installing this and that, etc, but I really haven’t gotten into it in recent years – in fact, the lack of options was the exact reason I … Continue reading
Printing from Tiger to a shared Windows printer
As a Tiger-friendly addendum to these fine instructions for printing from an OS X machine to a shared Windows printer (our 2K3 server is always on, while the Macs are sometimes asleep), one must do the following to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, OS X
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Social Tech Spring Social (partial) recap
I had a great night out at the Social Tech Brewing Co‘s spring social. When I go to normal tech-related meetups I usually have a hard time (still!) conveying what I do for a living, but when it’s a gathering … Continue reading
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Dreamhost fixes the broke stuff, finally
The latest [tag]Dreamhost[/tag] newsletter announced that they’re doing away with CPU usage limits on their shared plans. It’s about time. This wasn’t ever an officially posted policy, as far as I can tell (the newsletter says that they never had … Continue reading
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