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Dandelion: Git Deployment over FTP
May 4th, 2012 at 3:10pm | No CommentsDandelion is an awesome deployment tool I adopted recently. When you run dandelion deploy from the command line, it automatically determines what has changed in your Git repository since the last deploy and adds, updates, or deletes just those files over FTP, SFTP, or Amazon S3. Kudos to Scott Nelson for his awesome work on this. Packaged as ... read more »
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Installing 1Password Extension in a Google Chrome Site Specific Browser (SSB)
July 27th, 2011 at 4:30pm | 1 CommentA few of months ago I abandoned Fluid App for a shell script that generates Google Chrome site-specific browsers (SSBs). It has been amazing. I use a Chrome SSB for two Gmail accounts, Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, and TweetDeck. read more »
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Firefox 3: Smoother, quicker, better
March 31st, 2008 at 12:35pm | 1 CommentSince the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release in November, I have been following the release notes of each subsequent beta release but have been reluctant to install it for a couple of reasons: Installing Firefox 3 Beta overwrites your Firefox 2 install so you can’t have both versions on the same machine Firebug (my favorite ... read more »
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Automatic Updates for WordPress
November 30th, 2006 at 12:53am | 3 CommentsWouldn’t it be excellent if your installation of WordPress could patch itself with the latest security update? Well, I’ve thought of a way to do just that. I was just checking in on the Lussumo blog (the people who develop my favorite open source forum software) and I came across the post “Server Hacked“. Apparently ... read more »
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+1 Mac User
November 26th, 2006 at 4:14pm | 3 CommentsAfter considering it for about three years now, I’ve finally taken the leap from a PC to a Mac. Ever since Sean brought a Powerbook in to school in our third year at UNB I’ve been really impressed with what I’ve seen and heard. More recently I’ve been influenced by the fact that nearly everyone ... read more »
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Upgrading a MySQL database when you don’t know the schema changes
August 12th, 2006 at 10:45am | 1 CommentWe use an open source web application called osTicket to manage our e-mails for Zenutech. Unfortunately the osTicket project is controlled by a hosting company that does not accept patches. However, Travis Cline (aka tcline) recently stepped up and started a new branch of the project called osTicket Community Edition. The project is managed using ... read more »
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O’Reilly Open Source Convention
July 24th, 2006 at 2:53pm | 2 CommentsTomorrow I am off to Portland, Oregon with ActiveState for their annual participation in OSCON. I will be working at our booth greeting folks, showing off our products, and handing out t-shirts. Of course I will also be attending lots of interesting talks over the next few days as well. I am most looking forward ... read more »
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Web Usability: Down with select boxes
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:15am | 4 CommentsBefore After I hate clicking on select boxes to reveal only two or three items to choose from. It bugs the hell out of me. Why? In order to select an item, you have to click to reveal what’s in the select box, then click on the item to choose. That’s one extra step than ... read more »
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All Grown Up – ActiveState Software Inc.
March 4th, 2006 at 8:31pm | No CommentsSo it’s been exactly 4 months since I joined the folks at ActiveState and it has been a crazy/busy/exciting trip so far. Right from my first week, there was lots of talk about getting bought by another company and moving away from the parent company, Sophos. Just last week Sophos officially sold ActiveState to employees ... read more »
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RWYN – A user-friendly alternative to drop down menus
February 27th, 2006 at 11:30am | No CommentsRWYN (pronounced are-win) is an acronym for “Reveal What You Need.” It is a menu I came up with while I was sharpening my DHTML skills and building DHTML into TreeView. I was using TreeView for a menu that only had a node depth of 1, which doesn’t really warrant a tree structure at all. ... read more »