Dan Rashid is a web developer in St. Louis, MO, USA. I prefer the LAMP stack, Macs, blues rock, Nintendo, hockey, red, bourbon, fall, Wolverines, and medium-well.
I write all the code for Gorilla 76, which causes the willful neglect of my own website.
Molldeli’s Delicatessen and Franko Small Engines are a couple short-and-sweet websites for local small businesses. Both are on WordPress.
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What you'll need:
The second point is intentionally vague. My Snow Leopard DVD is the original release and includes Boot Camp 3.0. So I need to download all three updates. Your newer DVD might contain 3.1 for example, so you'd only need updates 3.2 and 3.3.
What to do:
%USERPROFILE%/Desktop/BootCamp64.msi and hit enter.We're going through all this because the driver alone won't cut it. You also need the Boot Camp service to manage hotkeys. Luckily, the installer only bothers with drivers it can find. So by copying only what you need off the DVD, you're avoiding installing all the other Boot Camp stuff and potentially screwing up existing drivers.
Futhermore, the MSI needs to run as admin, hence the Command Prompt step. Double-clicking it will not do the trick.
Additionally, you may want your function keys to behave normally. But you can't get into Boot Camp Control Panel. So do this instead:
regedit and hit enter.Now your function keys should work normally, and hotkeys work by holding fn (eg: volume up is fn+F12).
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In April I signed up for Clear WiMax Unlimited 4G at home. Service started well, but gradually degraded to around 100Kbs, max. My roommate and I could not reliably use the Internet at the same time. That's a big problem for a web developer and a cat-video afficionado.
About a month ago, I called Clear to find out what I'd be charged for cancellation. The CSR said, because I own my own modem, the fee would be an even $40. Not bad. I didn't cancel then, I just wanted the info.
We've since installed AT&T DSL, which downloads about 5x faster. Today I called Clear to cancel. I was on hold four times, transferred three times, and had to verify my account security information twice. Then the following transpired:
The call ended with me calmly explaining that I don't mistrust him, but I mistrust Clear's policies. Who knows what the fee would've magically become had I waited another month to cancel.
Stay away, friends. Yet another service provider that capitalizes on customers who don't take daily interest in what they're being charged, and don't question what they're getting back.
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A while back I posted about building and installing GAE SDK dependencies without MacPorts. Well, hours of frustration seem to indicate that way doesn't work anymore. Any version of libjpeg refuses to cooperate. So I relent:
$ sudo port install py25-pil py25-googleappenginealias gae="/opt/local/share/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py"$ gae ~/Sites/shiny_new_app will kick things off. Bookmarking the Python Development Server docs is a good idea.
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Gorilla 76 and Get Digital are self-marketing sites that were created simultaneously. Both are rebuilds on WordPress that prioritize contextual calls to action, regular updating, and social tracking. In many ways, they're prototypical of the work we want to do moving forward.
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Searched far and wide for this one. The solution is fantastically simple:
# echo "*" > /etc/ftpchroot
Then restart File Sharing.
Yes, FTP is archaic and insecure, but I need it for scanning documents on the home LAN. Still, I don't want the Scanner user to be able to read the entire file system. The above will limit all users.
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Though our server is running far below limits (by an order of magnitude), we continue to add Drupal sites and drive more traffic. On the advice of Pro Drupal 7 Development I decided to preemptively install everyone's favorite PHP opcode cache, APC. Here's how it went down:
sudo bashcd /usr/local/src/yum install pcre-develcurl -O http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.9.tgztar -xvzf APC-3.1.9.tgzcd APC-3.1.9//usr/bin/phpize./configure -enable-apc -enable-apc-mmap -with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs -with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-configmakemake installecho "extension=apc.so" > /etc/php.d/apc.iniservice httpd restartcp apc.php ~/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/Thanks to Amedia Creative Labs and this Server Fault thread for the info. The steps above are just copy-pasta from each.
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Butcher | Joseph is a middle-market merchant bank in St. Louis. They hired Gorilla 76 to create a site with strong visuals and no-nonsense copy -- rare things in the industry. The frontend is a custom WordPress theme with touches of jQuery, CSS3 and Google Web Fonts.
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