November 2011
1 post
jps with hexadecimal process ids
jps | awk '{printf("0x%x %s\n", $1, $2)}'
January 2011
1 post
How to tell what package installed a file on MacOS
pkgutil --file-info /path/to/file
December 2010
1 post
An old favorite: http://www.jxh.com/jxhc/ops-if/characteristics.html
And, if it ever disappears from the web: http://web.archive.org/web/20070914230234/www.jxh.com/jxhc/ops-if/characteristics.html
October 2010
1 post
iTunes: Ditch Ping, Link Into Your Music
Get rid of the Ping links in iTunes:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 1
Make iTunes store arrows link to your music collection instead:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows 1
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks 1
May 2010
3 posts
February 2010
1 post
Adobe Reader 9 install failishness
Just downloaded the Adobe Reader 9 installer, which came as a 47.1MB zipfile that decompresses to be a 47.4MB PKG file (yes, Apple’s installer files are already zipped). When launched, the installer window brags “decompressing powered by iNosso” (more compression?), then has a long “Recomposition” stage that I’ve never seen before (maybe that’s the...
November 2009
1 post
“HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards...”
– Mark Pilgrim, in an excellent post on why we have the IMG element.
October 2009
4 posts
WatchOh. Dear. Lord. I have mixed feelings about Psych, which can be hit-or-miss, but their musical Psych-Outs are ridiculously funny.
Live Blog: Web Aggregation, What Works and What... →
Live Blog: Comet & Other Browser Stuff →
September 2009
1 post
Stepping Into BDD with Cucumber and WebRAT:... →
August 2009
1 post
Generate the regex for a TLD hostname from Perl →
July 2009
1 post
Gmail no longer beta? True dat. →
June 2009
16 posts
Michael Jackson's Obit via Wordle →
LiveBlog: Surviving the 2008 Elections at... →
LiveBlog: PageSpeed →
LiveBlog: Q&A with Twitter's John Adams →
LiveBlog: 10+ Deploys A Day: Dev and Ops at Flickr →
LiveBlog: 2 Years Later, Loving and Hating the... →
LiveBlog: Fixing Twitter →
LiveBlog: The User and Business Impact of Server... →
LiveBlog: After the Click →
LiveBlog: Next Web Challenges: It's Still All... →
LiveBlog: Intro to Managed Infrastructure with... →
LiveBlog: Hadoop Operations →
LiveBlog: Death of a Web Server →
Got the "can't activate" Gem::Exception Blues? gem... →
Cucumber, Webrat ... Who Names These Things? →
Generating with Ruby OFF Rails →
May 2009
1 post
Re-finding my rubyligion ... →
January 2009
1 post
Seven Ways To Approach An Issue →
September 2008
3 posts
The Values Driving My Value-Driven Life →
Mozilla's TraceMonkey Avoids Trampling →
Google Chrome: The Next Big Thing? →
August 2008
8 posts
Reflections on moderated blog comments →
Reports of the Business Card's Death Are Greatly... →
Cuzillion: Because there's a zillion pages to... →
Stupidity In The Name Of Security →
Old & Rusty to Shiny & New, Part 1 →
BarCamp RDU: Fun and Done →
“Think of the content as a vector to knowledge.”
– Lee White, in the BarCampRDU Enterprise 2.0 discussion.
BarCamp RDU in 8 hours! →
July 2008
3 posts
Let Our Congress Tweet? Who's Stopping Them? →
Using mysqldump with subqueries →
Let Our Congress Tweet? You've been had. →
June 2008
4 posts
“My “tagging” behavior has the side effect of leaving the best of the...”
– Amy Hoy, blogging about information hygeine
http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/06/web-scalability.html