Sean Kelly offers software development, personalized training, and multimedia services, as well as opinions on trends in technology, science, and more.
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It's the Little Things
Safari's surprising feature.
Apple's Time Machine makes backups a no-brainer. But if you ever replace a logic board, suddenly Time Machine ignores all your old backups and starts over from scratch. Here's a short article on how to prevent that.
And it's in the public domain.
I thought Jobs had gall by showing advertisements during his notorious keynote addresses. But this time, he outdid himself!
It's gone? Yeah, sad but true.
A full eight hours before the official release, FedEx arrived with my "family pack" of Mac OS X "Leopard". And it comes with its own Blue Screen of Death!
When installing a Plone product that adds an index to a huge database, increase the Zeo server's transaction-timeout.
Everything can be measured in some way that is better than not measuring it at all.
Part 3, the last of the 5-part series—yes, the LAST—is now online at Developer.com.
Part 2 of my (projected) 5-part series of articles on developing for Plone is online now at www.developer.com.
Only on Slashdot do I find humor this intellectually stimulating, this willing to paraphrase a geek's favorite movies and TV shows.
I love calamari, paella loaded with squid, and even ika (squid) sushi. But the Squid cache and HTTP accelerator is off my menu from now on. NO MORE SQUID, EVER!
Temperature: 20.5º; Brix: 19.08; Specific Gravity: 1.079; Appearance: disgusting.
I like GNU's autoconf; but why can't it be more insane?
Somewhere in China, my new Macbook Pro is about to be picked up by Fedex.
My favorite cuisines are latin american/asian/european fusion, loaded with lots of spicy chiles and exotic herbs. Naturally, the American Thanksgiving holiday has never really inspired me. And yet, I'm expected to cook this feast yearly for my friends and family. This time I'm going to leave my diners begging for ice water to cool the heat!
My iBook is dead; long live the Macbook Pro! But were two loose screws what killed it?
Reading Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 is a shockingly sobering experience.