Category: Techie Mumbo Jumbo
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How Many Pounds Of Meat Do You Eat For Lunch?
Here is an image from a recent advertisement by Burger King in Japan. No, I’m not kidding: Who’s hungry? After you eat it, have Hans help you lose it. Source: Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training
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Racing the Apple Timeclock
On Friday, October 16th, I uploaded a new application to the apple iTunes App store. It’s an application I developed at work, and I won’t bore you with details of what it does other than to say it’s called “Auriculo” and is acupuncture related. On Monday at work we decided that we could re-create the…
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Managing Parental Controls On Snow Leopard With 3 Kids
How to automate the management of parental controls options for more than one user at a time.
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Out With The Sandvox, In With The WordPress
For the last few years I’ve been using Sandvox to manage this website, and I’ve been mostly pretty happy with all it could do – when I started using Sandvox WordPress and other blog-engine type stuff was nowhere near what it is today. I’ve recently begun to use WordPress in other areas (at work, for…
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Have I Been Rooted?
Last night one of the servers at work began to act a little wonky and sent me some email to let me know it was not feeling well. I logged in and quickly discovered that some social misfit was trying to hack the box. I tracked down a perl script they managed to get downloaded…
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1234567890 Seconds Since The Unix Epoch
mysql> select unix_timestamp() from dual; +——————+ | unix_timestamp() | +——————+ | 1234567890 | +——————+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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UITableView Hints
As someone only recently exposed to Objective-C, Cocoa, and the iPhone development environments, I have been struggling with some of the ways that Apple has decided to do things. Today I beat my head against a UITableView for most of the day, trying to figure out how to set up the view, the datasource, the…
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Homegrown Client / Server Data Sharing
Recently at work I had to come up with a way to have several installations of our software share application data in near-real time. I poked around a bit looking for a simple solution, but there does not appear to be such a thing. So I came up with my own. I don’t claim it’s…
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UIPickerView SDK Permutations
I have recently begun to learn to develop applications for the iPhone. This means I’m getting my head back into Objective-C (where it’s not been for several years – ever since I stopped writing WebObjects code) and learning all the cocoa frameworks and specialized SDK for the iPhone. For a project I’m working on, we…
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Launching RealBasic Apps in Ubuntu 8.04 on 64 Bit Hardware
For work I have recently needed to be able to compile RealBasic applications to run on Linux. The support for Linux from RB is decent, but requires the 32 bit versions of several libraries for the build apps to run. Specifically, I had to install the following extra packages to let things work: libc6-i386 ia32-libs…