Jahr: 2009

Jettro – Mac OSX using vmware fusion : network is down: „It turns out that Mac OSX sometimes thinks that vmware’s virtual network is down. The following command tells it otherwise. sudo /sbin/ifconfig vmnet8 up“

Adriaan Bloem at CMS Watch – Where did all the HTML editors go?: „By now, all but a few CMS products have thrown in the towel. You can have whatever UI you want, but the editor is likely going to be either TinyMCE or FCKeditor. […] The real consolidation isn’t in products or projects; it’s…

Charles Miller at the Atlassian Developer Blog – Agile Context Switching with „The Disturbed“: „Programmers, the authors proposed, are at their most efficient when they reach a state of ‚flow‘ in which they are able to concentrate fully on a single problem. Any developer will tell you how satisfying it is to be in this…

Gojko Adzic – Software development with hunters and gatherers: „While talking about the value of quick feedback and short iterations, David [Evans] used an analogy which I haven’t heard before and I liked it very much, so I decided to share it on this blog. […] What’s really important in the story is what happens…

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise: „Unimportant things are easier to keep around when they are small.“ Makes me wonder why there’s so much stuff in very small font size in our application’s UI…

Jacob Kaplan-Moss – Snakes on the Web: „Some time ago, Leonard Lin collected this list of all of this “other stuff” you need to worry about after developing your app: […] The good news is that there’s open source software to fill all of these needs. The bad news is that they’re all immature, disparate…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem: „Sometimes as programmers we are blinded by the glory of the challenge of solving the 100% solution when there’s a more reasonable, rational alternative that’s almost as good. Something to keep in mind when you are wondering how you’ll possibly get…

Another thing I keep forgetting in vi / vim: :%s/search/replace/g Joe ‚Zonker‘ Brockmeier at Linux.com – Vim tips: The basics of search and replace

I keep forgetting this line… $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ Update – you might instead want to try: $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ If it still doesn’t work, check the file permissions: 0700 on the .ssh directory and 0644 on the authorized_keys file are working for me,…

Jason Morrison – Twelve dollars for five words? What is the Associated Press thinking?: „No, I am not making this up. The AP is really asking people to pay them $12.50 if they quote more than four words of any story. […] How would the AP operate if every source they quoted demanded payment up…