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studpete — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:11:58 +0000

Love the group feature. E.g. you can have “friends” and “close friends”, with different visibility settings

Easy UIView debugging on the iPhone [i love this one!]

When building a complex application with a lot of views, sometimes it’s handy to be able to see exactly what that relationship is.

Farewell to the notification area

“We can’t go on like this” – Very interesting read from Canonical, Ubuntu. Mac OS has the same problem with the notification area.

Really really really great Progress HUD for the iPhone

You gotta love this one. So smooth.

This week’s links

studpete — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:03:10 +0000

Things I learned from iPhone and Droid ads

Good stuff. And is in sync with the fact that most Android users are men. This site is also interesting for the use of different stylesheets via css3, see next

Detecting device size & orientation

Nice: As the user resizes the window, Firefox will switch style sheets as appropriate based on media queries using the width and height media features.

How to stay sane when freelancing from home

My top productivity tip? Turn off Twitter when you’re working.

5 Essential Document Templates for Freelance Designers

PS: I know, there’re not really weekly, but I can’t hold it back…

This week’s links

studpete — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:59:56 +0000

Great stuff this week!

Helvetireader – ZEN for Google Reader. I love it!

Multi-Monitor Wallpaper

Simple Iphone Image Processing Library

iPad Benchmarks

I believe the technical term for this is “Holy crap!”

iBooks and private APIs

Apple, shame yourself. The functionality is great, but this App is on the AppStore and completes directly with other reader apps. People won’t understand why iBook has e.g. a real brightness control where your app don’t.
Let’s just hope iPhone OS 4 Sneak Peak on Thursday will open those APIs.

Delete Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Patch Files

Grrr. space is limited on a SSD. There’s just no reason for Adobe to keep them on my disk!

WordPress: Change the default text for password protected pages

studpete — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:31 +0000

Edit functions.php of your template and paste in this

[CC lang="php"]
// Password Protected Page Message
function custom_password_form($form) {
$subs = array(
‘#

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

#’ => ‘

Hopefully this works.

‘,
‘#
#’ => ‘
‘,
‘#
#’ => ‘
‘,
‘#
#’ => ‘
‘
);

echo preg_replace(array_keys($subs), array_values($subs), $form);
}

add_filter(‘the_password_form’, ‘custom_password_form’);
[/CC]

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Backup Server with rsnapshot

studpete — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:22:25 +0000

rsnapshot is the TimeMachine for servers. Get it via macports.

Next, configure /opt/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf.

Change snapshot_root to a directory you like (probably within /Users/xxx/Backups/)

Uncomment cmd_ssh

Set the Backup Interval to
interval manual 20 (use tabs!)

Last, configure the server address. You want root for that, so be sure that public key auth is working on your remote machine.
backup root@yourserver.com:/ SubPathInBackupDir/ exclude=proc,exclude=sys,exclude=tmp

Done! Invoke with sudo rsnapshot manual.

If you ever make a startup.

studpete — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:43:19 +0000

be a bit creative on job conditions. people will love u.

This week’s links

Snippet: copy ssh key to server in one line

studpete — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:29:47 +0000

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@domain.com "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys2

Backup Server with rsnapshot

Tricks with bash

studpete — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:19:44 +0000

Update: Even better, @zzamboni pointed me to << commandlinefu >>
the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again — Just use the searchbar on top

Howto copy text to clipboard: (mac only, for linux, use xclip, see here)

[cc]cat textfile | pbcopy[/cc]

I’ll update this blog post as I stumble upon something new.

Repair a crashed mysql table

studpete — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:27:32 +0000

If phpmyadmin shows you that your table needs repair, just repair it (databases are wonderful

EDIT: Realized that the linked blog article is just crap. Repair via phpmyadmin is nice, but you’re better of trying it with sqladmin.

HP knows what they are doing

mysql5 with mac os x

studpete — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:25:59 +0000

Use macports to install
[cc lang="bash"]sudo port install mysql5 +server[/cc]
A startup link is prepared. Use these commandos to enable/disable the server AND the auto startup
[cc lang="bash"]sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist

Generate the connector socket: (Rails, Python and other language may access your server directly via socket)

sudo ln -s /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
sudo mkdir /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock[/cc]
Set up your default user: (change ‘password’ to anything you like)
[cc lang="bash"]sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_install_db –user=mysql
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
mysql5 -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD(‘password’) WHERE User = ‘root’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit[/cc]
finally, try to login:
[cc lang="bash"]mysql5 -u root -p[/cc]
If you need to change the default settings, you have to generate my.cnf:
[cc lang="bash"]sudo cp /opt/local/share/mysql5/mysql/my-large.cnf /opt/local/etc/mysql5/my.cnf[/cc]
I altered the max_allowed_package – Setting for [client] to import large mysql dumps.

For connecting, there is a nice cocoa app called Sequel Pro. I like phpmyadmin, so i set up apache+php5+phpmyadmin for that. (its all in macports)

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