February 2008
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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something...”
– Joseph Addison - English writer and poet. More.
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Apple Event on March 6 about iPhone enterprise... →
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Tuesday - Most Productive day of the Week, sorry...
So says a survey and a related article, what do you folks think?
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/01/07/daily55.html
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Free Download Manager →
Makes downloading stuff in Windows good again, no spyware, quality software. It even has BitTorrent support.
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“Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing...”
– Paul Graham
“Do what you love.”
– Paul Graham, Joseph Hurtado and so many more.
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly
“Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%.”
– Steven King
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out...”
– Steven King
“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired...”
– Susan Sontag
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to...”
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Free Mac and PC Virtualization Software.
Virtualbox is a new virtualization offering like VMWare for desktops on PCs, Macs and Linux.
Fully open source, and apparently quite Mac friendly.
Not perfect, but you can’t argue with free. Myself however I will probably stick with VMWare Fusion, a great afforadable product.
Get it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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Apple TV Take 2 File Converter! →
Anything in your Apple TV.
Larger review here.
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MovableType is exciting again!
Suddenly MovableType has appeared in my radar screen, why?
Finally 100% Open Source
It has a design assistant to create your OWN css based styles, and a community to share them.
It continues to be a very powerful blog engine / CMS
Would this be enough to sway away from Worpress?
Who knows, but at least I will give it a try now.
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Save Money and Fly all Over the World →
Forecast when taking a trip is best for your pocketbook.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/08/farecast-now-offers-international-flight-price-predictions/
Free Novels Online - Harper Collins
If you like Coelho, the famous Brazilian writer, or any other author under Harper Collins, good news for you, if you can read online =)
Excerpt from NYT:
Starting Monday, readers who log on to www.harpercollins.com will be able to see the entire contents of “The Witch of Portobello” by Mr. Coelho; “Mission: Cook! My Life, My Recipes and Making the Impossible Easy” by Mr. Irvine; “I Dream in...
Warning - Apache 2 in Leopard
If you upgraded your box to Leopard, remember that Apache 2 expects your website directory root to be at:
/Library/WebServer/Documents
NOT at your Sites local directory, this can be modified later in:
/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
look for the DocumentRoot directive.
How to get Ruby on Rails and MySQL working on...
Scot Rozic has published a great tutorial on how to get RoR running in Leopard.
It’s a lot of work, but worth it. One quick note, when you jump to the site, remember you do not need to compile MySQL from source, you do need to make the group and owner permissions right, so follow Apple’s advice on that (check the chown -R and chgrp -R commands there.)
The rest of the steps are...
OS X Leopard is 99% ready for PHP and Apache!
In the old days of Tiger, developers who used OS X needed to either compile or download a pre-packaged version of Apache or PHP.
Well, Leopard comes with the latest versions of both 99% ready to roll.
David Powers has published an excellent overview of the process, and I suggest you save it as a PDF for posterity, just in case, remember the web is volatile. So do go and read it, great website,...
