Author Archives: Jason

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On Wealth and Holiness

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It’s one thing to profess with great sincerity a commitment to a life not driven by the love of wealth, financially speaking. It’s another thing entirely to live a life that demonstrates that. How beautiful of a house is too beautiful? What model of car is too extravagant? The very nature of these questions is [...]

Easy way to exclude categories from Wordpress 2.8 Sidebar

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http://www.lancelhoff.com/exclude-categories-from-sidebar-wordpress-2-8/

Fixing the order or iChat’s Track-Artist Auto Status

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1. Quit iChat.
2. In Terminal, enter this command: defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string ‘%Artist - %Track’.
3. Enter the command killall iChatAgent — this kills iChat’s background daemon.
4. Restart iChat, and choose the Current Track message option.

Download Garageband Lessons Directly

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I tried to queue all the guitar lessons for download at once thinking I could set it and walk away while it worked. Silly me, that caused a weird problem where some of the files where basically corrupted and I was stuck in a “You Have Unfinished Downloads” loop that wouldn’t allow me to actually [...]

Deploying PHP on Google Apps Engine

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I came across the below article the other day which turned out to be a fun and quick experiment.
Running PHP on Google’s free apps engine opens a door in my mind to a bunch of possibilities. Kicking that door open further is the fact that you can schedule cron jobs on your applications. Nice.
Try it [...]

Where is Coda Site Information Stored?

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oh here it is…

~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist

~/ is your user name root
Thanks mhut

Installing mysqlslap on a MediaTemple DV w/CentOS5

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Recently I had the need to determine in a real world test if our App would benefit from changing some of our MySQL table types from MyIASM to InnoDB.
There’s a lot of published theory out there as to when and why to make this switch but I wanted to see real numbers. Of course, I [...]

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” - Thomas A. Edison

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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
- Thomas A. Edison

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“They have really good Gelato over there at the ‘ole Olive Garden”
- Dad

Where the hell is Matt?

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epic video… prepare to smile joyfully. (source)