Archive for January, 2006

PHP MySQL Development with Dreamweaver

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Yesterday I had the opportunity to play around with a copy of Dreamweaver on a friend’s computer. Mainly I wanted to play around with the PHP/MySQL integration and see if I could develop a web-app via WYSIWYG. I didn’t hold high expectations.
If you want to learn PHP/MySQL, this isn’t the way to do it. Without [...]

Secure Document Delivery

Monday, January 30th, 2006

There has got to be a better way to deliver secure documents to people. Today I received a 1099-MISC form in the mail. The window on the envelope which is supposed to display your name and address also displayed my tax ID number. But even that slip didn’t really matter because the envelope wasn’t sealed.
I’m [...]

AppZapper Review

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I was recently contacted regarding my review of Xyle Scope by one of the authors of AppZapper. Sure, I’ll take it for a spin!
AppZapper is a tool which facilitates uninstalling applications from your Mac that either do not come with their own uninstaller application (which is most applications out there.) Die-hard Mac people are probably [...]

Move Keychain to External Drive?

Friday, January 27th, 2006

About once per week I try to take a look at security and crack down on any vulnerabilities I can find. Sometimes it is as simple as shredding documents lying around while other times it is something like further restricting access to certain points on my server.
Today I’ve been thinking that it would be really [...]

Uptime Command How to Read

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I noticed in my stats lots of people arriving at my Server uptime post searching for “uptime command how to read”. So I’ll offer that answer here. This is what the uptime command displays right now on my computer (not server).
9:37 up 2:02, 3 users, load averages: 0.13 0.22 0.16
And here is what [...]

Happy Birthday Mac and Me

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Today marks the birthday for the Macintosh line of Apple computers. Back in 1984 Apple had released the now infamous “big brother” commercial in which they proclaimed “And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984″.
The original Mac was offered at $2500 and included an extremely revolutionary device…. a mouse.

Server Uptime 100 Days

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

(Are you looking for how to read the uptime command?)
When I opened Server Monitor this morning I was greeted by a nice surprise. The uptime command reports:
up 100 days
Of course an uptime of 100 days isn’t a big deal. But I can say that with somewhere around 70 sites running on the server, a couple [...]

Automator Workflows

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

According to /Library/Receipts it looks like Installed Mac OS 10.4 just about 10 months ago. Today I created my first Automator workflow. I really liked the idea of Automator and how it is basically a drag and drop version of AppleScript. However I never really found a good use for it until now. Maybe I’m [...]

Apple Software Expense

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Seems like it was just a few months ago I purchased iWork and iLife ‘05. (Oh wait, it was). And now somehow I feel compelled to spend another $80 for each of those packages to get the new updates. Here is what I think about it.

Removing Year, Month, Day from WordPress Permalink Structure

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Nick Wilson from Performancing recently interviewed Matt Cutts from Google regarding SEO for bloggers. When Matt speaks I listen. One particular Q/A caught my attention.
Q. Can you give the Performancing readers a few tips on ranking in Google?
A. I wouldn’t bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I’d just use the first few words from [...]