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….
Troubleshooting: PHP API for Cloud Files Stops at Authentication
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.
Create a Movie From a Sequence of Images Using QuickTime and AppleScript
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. tell application “QuickTime Player” activate open image sequence “/Users/jon/Desktop/debug/1.jpg” frames per second 24 end tell
How To: Automatic SSH Tunnel
Using public networks for sensitive online communication is inherently risky. Anything that is not transferred through a secured connection is publicly visible. After snooping network traffic at various public wifi hotspots (for academic purposes) I have become a more paranoid web surfer. The https and padlock just aren’t good enough for me anymore. So, whenver…