Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I think the MacBook Air is a beautiful piece of industrial design. Beautiful. I probably wouldn't buy one, but I really admire it. I bet Yingwen would like it though. It is a sexy machine that is more about portability and fashion than functionality.
I know I am a power user ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Just a quick note about the new Apple Wireless Keyboard: It is notably more compact than its wired counterpart. More "laptop-like." More "couch-top" like. This clearly was thought out as "hey, if we're going to do a wireless keyboard, then what are people going to want to do with it?" ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Odd that this was not set by default, but TextMate did not include XML Schema (.xsd) documents to be recognized as XML. No matter - TextMate is beautifully extensible. This is easy to set using TextMate's Bundle Editor for this and any other document extension that you'd like to be ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Here is a basic MySQL tip regarding application users:
When building applications that use MySQL, it is a best practice to create a MySQL application user that is dedicated to your app and has privileges to access only the database it is assigned.
With the latest version of phpMyAdmin, you can do ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
It may be just me, but TextMate appears to be the crashy-est program in my arsenal of web development tools. It seems to regularly occur when bringing up dialog boxes, such as a find/replace box. This is starting to bum me out at close to 1 AM as I try ...
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