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The movers are here. Packing is on-going. Everything will soon be in a container heading off the island and across the ocean. My wife and kids are flying to her mother’s tonight, and I fly out in a couple of days (we got tickets on different flights due to some cancellations).
Thank dog [...]
Anyone using Wordpress should beware some nasty hacks, like that recently suffered by my good friend. Creators of malware should every bone in their hands broken. Twice.
Here’s the scenario: you’re writing a green field web application. This application will be used to power more than one e-commerce site, which means that it must be easily tailored. You can use any toolset you like, and the requirements are fairly standard (e.g. exporting data to CSV, modern UI, payment gateway, [...]
The 7th Ironcoder contest was announced today (for some definition of today - damn those pesky time zones). I think this year I actually feel confident enough to take part, even if I accomplish not very much For those who have no idea what it is, each contest selects a theme and [...]
If you happen to be using Xcode and get this somewhat baffling error message when building:
syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token
The problem is that you are missing an @end in some file that you’ve #imported, probably a header file. This error also shows up as “parse error …” in some versions of Xcode (took me [...]
Like anyone who has had the same e-mail address for 10 years, I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered, by one mechanism or another. Occasionally the odd bit gets through. Unlike most people, I like to do something about it. For example, when I see Adobe CS3 for [...]
I’ve started working on some projects with a bunch of guys who are not used to using version control systems. This post is as much for them as it is for anyone else. I won’t go into how to install subversion, because that is covered by many other people elsewhere. I also [...]