Mac OS X: Changing You’re Short Name Without Breaking Time Machine

April 22, 2009

Today I got the urge to change my Mac OS X Leopard account short name (home directory) so that I would have less to type in Terminal. Here’s how I changed my short name without breaking my Time Machine backups.

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Google Summer of Code

April 21, 2009

I just received word that my proposal “Boost Drupal Media Module Development” has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code program. I’ll be working with the Drupal Media Project to accelerate development and bring the project closer to a beta release. I cannot express how excited I am to have been given this opportunity [...]

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Jing, a Free and Simple Way to Create Screencasts

April 12, 2009

Jing is an application that makes throwing together a screencast a breeze. Even better, it’s free and runs on both Windows and Mac OS X.

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How To: Setup Email Services on Ubuntu Using Postfix (TLS+SASL) and Dovecot

March 26, 2009

Here is a guide on getting Email services running on Ubuntu Intrepid. I used Postfix for core services (SMTP wtih TLS and SASL) and Dovecot for fast IMAP and POP3. This tutorial has been tested on a bare bones Ubuntu 8.10 slice from Slicehost.

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Quick LNMP Server Setup Guide

March 26, 2009

Learn more about the inner workings of this website’s server and how to setup an LNMP stack.

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Powered by Cloud Files? Moving Away from S3

March 24, 2009

If you have read my about page, then you know that this website and a few others are hosted from a 256 slice from Slicehost. Last week I discovered that if my Slice is located in the DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) datacenter that I could get free network transfer between the Slice and Cloud Files. [...]

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Troubleshooting: PHP API for Cloud Files Stops at Authentication

March 23, 2009

The PHP API for Cloud Files does not catch CURL errors. An exception will be thrown, however it will not contain any useful information to troubleshoot the problem. Here is a likely symptom and a solution.

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Create a Movie From a Sequence of Images Using QuickTime and AppleScript

March 19, 2009

I was doing some troubleshooting on Animated Mandelbrot and ran across this neat AppleScript. Given a sequence of images it will create a MOV file using QuickTime.
1234tell application "QuickTime Player"
    activate
    open image sequence "/Users/jon/Desktop/debug/1.jpg" frames per second 24
end tell

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