I couldn’t find this driver on HP’s site directly so I’m posting this here as a reminder to myself. The install HP links to directly seems to stall out. I’ll update this and let everyone know how well this actually works. Install Update: Scanning works like a champ on an Intel Mac. Installs a bunch [...]
Category Archives: Software
Vim Tabbing
Thursday, April 10, 2008
In my day to day workflow I normally come in to contact with html / code that was initially created through some gui software client Dreamweaver, etc. It’s a real headache dealing with the differences of depth when dealing with indentations. I’m finding the following settings, in VIM, pretty helpful set expandtab ” use spaces [...]
Basic User Authentication with Ruby on Rails
Thursday, April 10, 2008
I’m trying to learn a little Ruby on Rails (RoR) and it’s nice to learn by “rolling your own” solution sometimes. aidanf.net has a walk through from model to controller. Here’s a handy guide to Rails Security
Oracle
Sunday, March 30, 2008
I’ve been trying to pick-up a little oracle db experience. In Oracle sqlplus, if you type ed or edit at the command prompt, sqlplus will put the last command into an editor buffer for easy editing. Here’s a quick tip for you; the default editor in Oracle sqlplus can be changed to vim pretty quickly. [...]
Backup data using Amazon’s S3 on the Mac
Monday, February 11, 2008
There are other solutions to backups not involving Amazon’s S3. If you insist on using S3, this seems like the easiest solution, the comments hold particular value; suggested usage includes rdiffs and swapping out launchd for Automator and ical. Read the article here.
bc a GNU CLI Calculator
Monday, February 11, 2008
Handy calculator for the command-line. Hey, it’s already on the mac.
Bookmarklets
Saturday, January 26, 2008
If you’re like me anything that makes your life easier is worth spending a few minutes accomplishing. Bookmarklets, typically, are single line javascript applications. According to this wikipedia article, “Steve Kangas of www.bookmarklets.com coined the term “bookmarklet,” which he started to create based on an idea suggested in the Netscape JavaScript Guide.” With the help [...]
Embed Tags for Quicktime
Monday, January 14, 2008
I’m working on a personal project for the iPhone. Specifically, I’d like to make an ajaxed index of all my music organized by artist. It’s a spare time project, and I don’t have much of that right now, but it’s coming along well. I started out by making an HTML index of a directory of [...]
Full Filenames in the Finder
Sunday, December 16, 2007
By running the two commands below, in a terminal, it’s possible to get OS X’s Finder to display the current full path as the window’s title. $ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES $ killall Finder It’s not possible to edit or “grab” the path. Power users might like the Finder’s “Path Bar” more. You [...]
Build wget for the Mac
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Looks like Apple has neglected to include the command line tool wget for a while now. I was able to find a precompiled binary for 10.4, but 10.5 is so recent that it looks like wget hasn’t make it’s way on to the tubes. If you’re looking for wget why not build it yourself? The [...]