I recently discovered a neat little "trick" on my iPad (and iPhone): I've stumbled upon a way to listen to music streaming from Internet radio stations while I do "other things," like check my email, take photos, or write text messages.
Category: Tutorials
We're half way through 2009\. All the major browser vendors are shipping products with really great rendering engines now. Usage of the much-maligned Internet Explorer 6 has plummeted to the 15% neighborhood (stats vary, but they all show < 20%).
I've just invested several hours trying to get my system to use the Pear libraries from MacPorts rather than the Pear libraries I had installed years ago using the command line installer, as described here. This is largely because I'm happy to let the MacPorts package manager take care of upgrading my software, and making sure all inter-dependencies are looked after.
I've lately been involved in a number of conversations about the value proposition of Twitter as a publishing platform to anyone interested in developing a public persona for a company, an organization, or even one's own career identity. What follows are ideas that have repeatedly surfaced during these conversations, as well as a handful of links I've been amassing from my reading, as well as links friends and colleagues have shared with me.
I broke down and hacked my MIE. But just a teeny bit, though: I simply installed the Flock browser and added it to the application launcher.
I've recently been working on Symfony / Propel projects that deal with particularly large data sets. In such cases, Propel's documentation recommends a "lazy hydration" approach.
My brother and I had been suffering from a chronic affliction for roughly the last decade. You see, every year or so, we'd have to reinstall Windows on the PCs in our father's office. The reasons for the re-installation ranged from viruses, to a hosed registry, and even hard drive failures; the poor man's PCs have seen it all.