Drop Bocks 0.5a2
Thanks to some great user feedback and suggestions I’ve had the impetus to improve Drop Bocks somewhat. Now - unofficially - available is Drop Bocks 0.5a2 [zip]. In this release:
added $siteName config param
added $deleteConfirmationMsgAdmin config param
added $requiredPassword config param
Warning message if upload_max_filesize in php.ini is lesser than the app upload size
As well as lots of […]
iSurviving on airplanes
If you happen to end up flying on an Air Canada Boeing 737, the ones in which they give you the cheap disposable headphones for which to listen to the in-flight cinematic tour de force, and you happen to have your iPod with you, suffer not through the use of those cheap disposable headphones for […]
phpMyAdmin, ‘Error #2002 - The server is not responding’, and OS X 10.4.4
Trying to install phpMyAdmin on a fresh OS X 10.4.4 install this afternoon was an incredible exercise in frustration. No matter what I did I kept getting the dreaded ‘Error 2002 - The server is not responding‘ error. Turns out the the location of mysql.sock has changed in this version of OS X; if you […]
The foibles of XML security
Between inadvertently lighting expensive bits of hardware on fire ( “Remember, the devices won’t work anymore once the magic smoke gets out” ) and installing OS X development tools I have a lot of time these days to read the various screeds, rants and raves on the web. This one struck me as particularly poignant […]
ACLs explained using Hobbits and ale
Access Control Lists are handy things: they let you restrict who gets to do what and where (if you’ve ever configured .htacess, you’ve probably stuck your fingers into an ACL, whether you know it or not). Understanding them, however, is not so straight-forward.
Over on the CakePHP they’ve written a decent over-view of ACLs using […]
2023406814 is really big
From StuffIt Expander yesterday:
I hope not, I don’t think I can wait that long*.
*about 231 000 years, give or take other processes running on the machine every once in awhile.
Good, Basic OS X Security
If you’re running OS X, do what Mac Geekery says in Basic Mac OS X Security and lock down your Mac. A great article on securing the basics (you think you know the basics but I’ll bet you haven’t done all of these. I bet ya’).
Canada Going for Gold
I like the Olympics and I particularly like women’s hockey. The women have two things going for them that the men don’t that makes their game much more fun to watch, IMO:
They play great hockey in every regard: passing, positioning, scoring, stick handling, goal tending, it’s a hell of a lot of fun to […]
Mantis and StuffIt Expander on OS X
Thinking of using Mantis as your bug tracker on OS X? Don’t untar the archive using StuffIt Expander - it chokes silently during the expansion process and doesn’t get all the files.
You’ll know if this has happened if you’re missing the core/php_api.php file.
Instead use Untar. Worked for me (and is much, much faster than digging […]
Dick Cheney, Assassin
Dick Cheney tries to assassinate a lawyer:
…the ranch’s owner, said Sunday that Cheney was using a 28-guage shotgun and that Whittington was about 30 yards away when he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest.
And by “assassinate” I mean “shot accidentally”, and by “accidentally” I mean “assassinate”.
You know what I admire about Cheney? […]