Mac Console launch failure
Date: 20th February 2011 Category: macintosh 7 comments
The Mac OS X console application will not launch. This is a very annoying item. If you have this problem you are probably long overdue for some maintenance.
Survey for Best Hosting 2010
Date: 26th December 2010 Category: misc 1 comments
Host Review has a survey for best 2010 hosting companies. Take the survey. Read on, if you just want the links.
Muenchphotography.com Joomla Virtuemart
Date: 24th January 2010 Category: projects 1 comments
Muench photography website redesign and e-commerce solution based on Joomla content management system and Virtuemart Joomla e-commerce shopping cart.
Miller-McCune Rwanda Timeline
Date: 19th December 2009 Category: projects 3 comments
A Flash interactive timeline on the Rwanda genocide. The original presentation is no longer available online, however the article is under "Simply Rwanda", see the links below. Created on behalf of Miller-McCune to supplement the article with available images from Getty, Wikipedia and other sources. Featured custom coded and designed timeline with features including a map, zooming images and external css, video and xml.
Montecito Vino Wordpress
Date: 1st December 2009 Category: projects 1 comments
Located in exclusive Montecito, California, Montecitovino.com needed a website that could grow and improve as the business began anew under new ownership. Wordpress as a content management system is a great tool for the job.
Latitude.net Joomla Project
Date: 16th March 2009 Category: projects 1 comments
Latitude custom website redesigned into a Joomla content management system. Joomla offers a tremendous amount of end user control over day to day information. Latitude enjoys the flexibility provided to keep the website updated and available to their investment clients.
Javascript Cheatsheet
Date: 19th February 2009 Category: php No comments
A to Z... Always a need to refer to a dictionary style reference. Remind you of the days before "google" it coding?
Links:Firefox Dev Add-Ons
Date: 19th February 2009 Category: macintosh No comments
Why not another Firefox list of Add-Ons for my fellow web developers. These are only the mandatory items in my list. The impact on your Firefox RAM usage in Mac OS X is determined directly by your add-on abuse, number of tabs, and flash/video runtime(s)! Be realistic is my only recommendation.
Firebug
Screengrab!
Session Manager
Web Developer
YSlow
Live HTTP Headers
Google Toolbar
Mariewright Yoga Wear
Date: 2nd September 2008 Category: projects 1 comments
Mariewright Yoga Wear e-commerce website entailed logo design, e-commerce package customization and hosting configuration. The solution is X-cart. Hosted on a virtual private server optimized for php. The website has received many compliments for speed, simplicity and reliability. My thanks to Marie and Ted for the opportunity to help.
Acrobat Form-Field Tabbing Order
Date: 25th April 2008 Category: macintosh 50 comments
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Quick tip to getting the tab order of an Acrobat Pro PDF form set properly. There is a built-in method to do so but it was very troublesome. Acrobat Professional sets the tab order automatically as each element is created on the layout. Duplicate your document first. Use this document and run the "Run Form Field Recognition" menu selection to quickly create fields. When you are ready, copy and paste the fields from the duplicate to the final in the order you would like to tab.
Applescript - Finder List Label Sort
Date: 31st March 2008 Category: macintosh 28 comments
Wrote a little Applescript script to speed up the process of changing views in the Mac OS finder. This script is best used in combination with the Apple Script Menu.
Carousel of Politico
Date: 18th March 2008 Category: misc 4 comments
Noticed a very nice Ajax/JQuery carousel of images on the homepage of Politico.com. Look for the Wuerking drawings on the right hand column, political satire. This is a javascript rotation of images with a popup to large image routine. The JQuery plugin appears to be created by Jan Sorgalla at http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/ Many examples including dynamic data. Perhaps i will expand upon my own work section with this package.
Links:Politico
Jcarousel JQuery Plugin
JQuery for Designers - Tutorials
AFcomponents - 3d Flash Carousel
Adobe® Acrobat® resources plentiful
Date: 3rd March 2008 Category: macintosh 6 comments
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I remember when all the Quark and Adobe programs came in a bookshelf collapsing volume set. Such was the time. Thank goodness times moved online. It seems a common habit recently (i admit to it as well) to Google for answers to sticky points that would have otherwise been learned early on by spending at minimum a half day consuming the material provided by Adobe on their website, on tutorials, or in the excellent help systems included in the program. Time is not on our side if you need to get work done. Look at Adobe.com, they have at least nine major applications , a couple of languages and Air. At what point do you stop learning and start producing? We all have different levels of know-how and maturity in an application. So, my point, you(and I) may never feel comfortable enough to stand up and lecture on an application or technology, however, if you spend a little time going beyond the top 10 on Google you might learn enough to crank out the work faster.
Here is a review of the material on Adobe® Acrobat® Pro available with the program and online.
Using UNION for a single menu
Date: 1st March 2008 Category: mysql 1 comments
Working on an in-house content management system, I came across a problem regarding my use of unions in mysql. The system has a file that is assigned to a particular job or jobs. With a html menu, i would like the user to be able to change the relationship to any other active job inline with the job it belongs to. The objective was to display the current record selection regardless of it's status along with all other records with the status of active. The mysql Union of two select statements works to combined my results sets. What if the file did not have a job reference at all?
Revolution on the North Shore
Date: 28th January 2008 Category: photography 10 comments
My years in Mililani and my love of the North Shore were renewed after seeing the wonderful documentary "Bustin' Down the Door" at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Inspired by the movie and the imagery (a large portion by Dan Merkel), i thought i would find out where an idol of mine is today - Tom Boyle! Here is Tom's MySpace. Also, Tom's DVD re-release on ebodyboarding.com - a must have for any surf fan!
U23D Flash Embedded Web Widget
Date: 17th January 2008 Category: flash 97 comments
How about a widget in the form of a Flash object. U23D: The First Live-Action 3D Concert Movie is soon to be released, info can be found at U2.com. Take a look at the widget itself right here.
Flash DataGrid Component Style and Sorting
Date: 28th October 2007 Category: flash 49 comments
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Not the simplest Flash components to style, but the DataGrid component has it all in there, it just takes patience and help from others to find all the right attributes to touch. The table presentation is elegant but the key is the ability to sort non-string data correctly. Credits to kirupa.com for the fine tuning (link below). The San Marcos Preserve website has changed hands, so the live version is no longer available.
Apple Mac OS X Recovery Ideas
Date: 10th October 2007 Category: macintosh 63 comments
Start key commands, Repair ideas and the Cache that has to go.
Mac addict label
Date: 24th August 2007 Category: macintosh 48 comments
The other day i got labeled a Mac addict. It is the operating system i would choose for my everyday use. Apple and i have a long history, but that is another story. For my audience in this blog, i thought i'd list my history of operating system exploration.
Wireless Zero Configuration service is not available
Date: 16th August 2007 Category: misc No comments
The Dell Inspiron 6400 (XP with SP2) with the Broadcom Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card (4.100.15.5) developed a nasty habit of dropping wireless connection and refusing to acquire an IP address via DHCP. In running diagnostics, provided by Broadcom somehow Windows Zero Configuration wireless was disabled. The user in this case loves to use the icon on the lower right to connect so i added a problem that must be fixed. Microsoft provides a knowledge base article for this problem see the link below. Back to the wireless problem. Dell tries hard but their web site reminds me of the maze in "The Shining". Luckily, the fix was not an update to the Broadcom mini-card. Basic house cleaning cleared the Dell's wireless. Delete all wireless connections from memory and rebuild the wireless connection you need from scratch. So goes Windows, trying to solve one problem can lead to additional damage. (Use at your own risk!)
Links:Factory default an original Airport Base Station
Date: 26th July 2007 Category: macintosh No comments
The original single ethernet Airport base station (very old) was difficult to reset. Following the Apple instructions to the letter (see link) failed to upload the default configuration from any of the Intel based machines i tried. Luckily I had access to a G4 Power PC which is about as old as the base station. The Airport Admin utility on that unit was version 4.2. Worked without a problem.
Links:Filemaker 9 warming to SQL
Date: 22nd July 2007 Category: misc No comments
No not really. Wishful thinking, as Filemaker continues to suck the life out of its customers. (TechNet membership) See Bob Cusick's article at Bob's World.
Links:What RAID level (1,3,0+1)
Date: 21st July 2007 Category: macintosh No comments
The definitive online interactive tutorial of RAID levels. Mirroring, Parity, independent and distributed and more. An excellent job by Advanced Computer & Network Corporation.
Links:RAM install for iMac 24
Date: 19th July 2007 Category: macintosh 2 comments
Apple has great installation guides for RAM. The 24" iMac install is simple, however, RAM is so very important and quite difficult to troubleshoot if flawed. Care should always be taken. The guide is worth reviewing.
Mysql dates() functions overview
Date: 2nd July 2007 Category: mysql 4 comments
A very good overview of the Date and Time functions in Mysql from databasejournal.com ( from 2003). Here i have stuck just to the sql. Please see the link to read all the details.
Migration to Web 2.0 (JQuery)
Date: 22nd May 2007 Category: php 1 comments
Need an intro to Ajax and PHP in eight pages. Found one. I did a quick sketch to assist my later description to a good friend.