Posts filed under Geek

August 6, 2008

happy iphone stories

I got the wife an iPhone and it turned up yesterday. I spent a little while porting her info over from blackberry to iPhone. I downloaded the Blackberry Desktop software and sync’d it with her Outlook and then imported her Outlook info into the iPhone. Not everything came across, the telephone but nothing else did. [...]

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July 18, 2008

iPhone over air sync

NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of you iPhone (and other smart phones and PDA devices) with public PIM, e-mail and calendaring services.
Google Calendar is also included and doesn’t need any software installed on your device, instead, it uses the synchronization protocols that are already built in - the MS Exchange server protocols.
Visit Nuevasync’s website [...]

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April 10, 2008

Apache 2.2

I screwed up our server’s logging recently through lack of sleep, lack of caffeine reaction and silliness. In a word, I was tired and not paying attention.
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/ you list all the configuration files for your websites. In /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ you make a symlink to the sites in /sites-available/
Sounds straight forward:
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.domain.com .
So now if [...]

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March 22, 2008

Web development on a Mac

Have I told anyone recently how I switched to a Mac for all my application and web development? I’ll list a few projects and I’ll give you a quick overview of what I am doing and how I am doing it.

Ad Server development - running locally, serving file from localhost, developing plugins and skins.
WordPress development [...]

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March 20, 2008

Fix for Mac dock mirror in leopard

Open a terminal window and type:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
Then type this to restart the dock:
killall Dock
to revert type:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
Then killall Dock again:
killall Dock
Funny insert: I kept messing it up (typing in the dark in bed) by typing “killall Dick” - Ouch!

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March 19, 2008

Openads/OpenX bug with Debian/PHP5

You might as well go read the post here at the OpenX site. I thought a few readers might want to bookmark this. The solution is simple. To use OpenX on debian (etch), simply downgrade the PHP version to 4. Sucks but hell, it works.
Sidenote, I am still having issues with referring to it as [...]

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