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Well, even though my Apache issues with Snow Leopard were a bit frustrating, Snow Leopard has redeemed itself. First of all, it is noticeably faster. But second, printing and scanning is awesome. When I bought a MacBook a while ago, I got an HP C4580 printer/scanner for free. I didn’t really need a printer, but the [...]

Now, in this case it isn’t really Apple’s fault. It’s sort of everyone’s fault. There’s a reason even complex things need to be simplified and it’s to avoid the situation I’m in right now. After installing Snow Leopard on my other machine and thinking I found all the kinks my MacBook still won’t connect to a [...]

I am using the Apache vhosts feature to run multiple websites on my machine, many of which are running WordPress and therefore also using MySQL. The Snow Leopard installation was almost as disastrous as it could be for this setup. Pre Snow Leopard Installation Warning Be sure to back up your /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file before you install Snow Leopard. It [...]

I don't care enough about Ikea for this to be personal for me. But the fact that a big design company made this choice, it makes it feel like stupid is some sort of a disease and it's spreading fast.

I know that while it will be nice, Snow Leopard probably won’t be that big of a deal. However, I just can’t wait. I’m practically counting the hours until it’s released. I feel a little nervous like there’s something I’m supposed to be doing. And I know what it is. Buying and installing Snow Leopard! I kind [...]

I just watched this video to see what was coming up in ECMAScript 5. What this video taught me is the JavaScript is junk and that design by committee always leads to bad solutions. When looking at some of the ridiculous code examples in this video, I just couldn’t believe it. It is so difficult just [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I’m working on a redesign of this theme. That work is very graphics intensive so it goes slower and has to wait for inspiration. But the way I work is that I have one common theme for all my sites and then I retheme each site as appropriate. Each time I focus [...]

I have an issue, I’m kind of unhappy with PHP. I have used many languages, but as a developer at Microsoft I used C, C++, and C#. I would consider C and C++ to have been naturally selected as the “best” languages, but at this point, we also know what’s wrong with them and want [...]

As I’m just really getting started with more serious color work, I noticed something interesting today. That for me at this point color choices are very iterative. I was working with a red today, and created a red that was a darker shade of another red. It was fine and worked with it a while. Then [...]