A quick tip for anyone who upgraded to Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and somehow has “Autobahn” installed. To remove Autobahn (shown as “com.swarmcast.autobahn” in your console log) and stop the constant popups asking you to install a Java runtime: Click your user name in the sidebar of a Finder window. Click “Go” in the top …
I finally added some PEAR packages to my MAMP Pro installation. Theoretically you should be able to use the PEAR installer that comes with MAMP. I’ve used the PEAR installer on other servers, but couldn’t get it to work on the local development environment on my Mac. I’ve found a few posts from MAMP users …
The CSS property “display: inline-block” only works in IE7 when it is applied to selectors that are displayed natively inline. For example, if you have an <h tag that needs to display as an inline-block you need to wrap the text with a span. This should be done with the span inside the h tag …
Every web developer knows that Internet Explorer does not comply with published web standards. IE7 is much better than IE6, but we still spend many hours restructuring code and/or writing specific stylesheets so that our web pages display acceptably on Microsoft’s browsers. I recently became aware of another problem with Internet Explorer; attempting to print …
SuperDuper by Shirt Pocket Software gets my vote for “killer app”. I think this one, $30 program, is almost reason itself to switch from Windows to Mac. Basically it allows you to make an exact copy of your boot drive on an external USB drive. Yes, you can really boot from it. Just start up …
This is a little Flash Tip / reminder-to-self. If you search Google it seems to be a common problem for the transport, control skin not to load for Flash movies. I finally found the answer on the Adobe site … duh. Usually you publish your movie in the same folder containing your .fla, movie .swf, …
This is not all that helpful if you haven’t read Getting Things Done, but it is a good summary list of GTD points if you have.
Is this indicative of something? I had a task in Things to blog about that app for many months before I downloaded OmniFocus and made my first post about Getting Things Done (GTD). I entered a task in Things and OmniFocus on November 3, to write a follow-up and here it is. I wish it …
These three sites I programmed since my “bored with blogs” post: Le Grindoux Spanish Peaks Cycling Teton Valley Foundation All three are pretty light on content, which gave the designer more freedom, and all three clients pretty much gave the designer free rein. They’re very different. Teton Valley Foundation is clean and bold. Le Grindoux …
If you use the free version of MAMP this is the simple way to set up virtual hosts – in /private/etc/hosts add a line for each virtual host like: 127.0.0.1 vhost.local Then, as described in Supercharge Your MAMP Environment, create a vhost conf file with an entry for each virtual host like: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName …