The new full screen option in Lion is quite nice. At the moment my favorite application to run full screen is terminal. It has a great old school vibe to it, not to mention that it allows you to be fully focused on that one window. I do however, always want to change the settings [...]
Shutting down Postgres server on Snow Leopard requires some shell work, so open up terminal and execute the following commands: sudo su – postgres This will log you into the postgres server user and move you to its directory. bin/pg_ctl -D data stop This will stop the server from running.
At DOP we started working on a django front end for Sql-Ledger with the idea of combining it later on with our ticketing system. Getting it going on my MacBook proved to be more challenging then expected. Most of the problems were easily solvable, but finding the oplossing proved to be tricky. Therefor I have [...]
iLife 08 brought a big change to iMovie. iMovie 06 was a very capable video editing software with a good plugin library. iMovie 08 has taken a step back in the amount of pure editing feature. It seemed like apple was aiming to make iMovie the “iPhoto for home video”. One of the features not [...]
Drupal saves its sessions in the sessions table. One can always query they table to get the session ID. There is however a faster way. If the user is logged it, the session id can be found with the following code: global $user; $user->sid; In any case the session id can also be read from [...]
Drupal, like most CMSes uses cache intensively to speed things up. In a production site that is exactly what you what. However when developing, cache can cause you much pain. If your an expert in drupal you probably already realized when you need to clear the cache in order to see changes and when not [...]
Tiger comes bundled with Apache 1.3 and PHP4. While these are still used for web development they are defenetly on the way out. For this reason I have decided to set up a more up to date MAMP installation on my old Powerbook G4. While this was all done on Tiger, it will most likely [...]