OS X Server Open Directory DNS Error -65563
I’ve been muddling my way through learning to use OS X Server’s Open Directory. Kerberos, especially, doesn’t work very well for me, so I’ve been looking through the logs and investigating anything that looks suspicious. A fair amount of people see the following message in the Directory Services Error Log in Server Admin. 2010-05-13 17:15:08 PDT [...]
OS X Server Management Plan for Small Businesses
I’ll warn you now, this is a bit of a rant. I need to vent a little bit while I install OS X Server on my Mac Mini Server for the fifth time. Here’s my situation, and I’m sure there are many other people that are in the same position as I am. One of my [...]
OS X Server: File Sharing vs. AFP
This post is about a very subtle difference I learned between “File Sharing” and AFP when using Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (and probably previous versions as well.) But first bear with me while I explain how I got here. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been taking a crash course in Mac OS [...]
HTML: What Tags to use for Key-Value Pairs?
When you have a key-value list what HTML tags should you use? I’ve been thinking a lot about this and I’ll say it flat out: the answer is tables. Here are some of the common tags used to contain key-value pair lists and why using tables is better. Tags That Don’t Work Very Well Dictionary Lists You could [...]
Force Deleting Files in OS X
A file on an external drive was constantly giving me the message: The operation can’t be completed because the item “filename” is in use. I got it over a period of days even after switching files in the only application that could have possibly used it and quitting that application. When I looked for help on this, [...]
Using MediaWiki Increases my Productivity
It's only been one day and already I'm in love with MediaWiki. I have been able to organize my thoughts around a theme system redesign more than I ever though possible.
Installing MediaWiki
Today I installed MediaWiki for the first time to keep track of the documentation behind my various projects. I was finding myself getting reset too many times because I would forget my previous assumptions and my various TextEdit documents were getting lost in an unorganized virtual pile on my desktop. This happens a lot as multiple clients have you switching between tasks.
WordPress Themes: Object Oriented PHP Code is Very Important
I'm doing a heavy rewrite of my main WordPress theme that all of my other themes are based on. As someone who has spent a lot of time writing code, one of the things that has been bugging me about WordPress themes is all the duplication of HTML.
Tip: Always Comment overflow: hidden; CSS Rules
CSS comments aren’t always helpful, they tend to muddle the code and once you get good at naming classes and ids your CSS should tell a pretty clear story. But one thing that should always be clearly commented is the use of overflow: hidden; This rule is used mostly for a couple of reasons, and almost [...]