I order a lot online, but oddly, I haven’t had anything shipped via UPS in a long time. Usually, it’s FedEx and deliveries are without incident. This time, though, my package went UPS, and my sanity with it. Delivery was scheduled for today. What a joke. Here’s a play by play: 5:50 AM - The package is [...]

I just came across a post by Michael Ash, describing the hoops he had to jump through to get an app in the App Store. After reading his account, my mind instantly wandered to the myriad of apps gracing the home screen of my iPhone and to the fact that most if not all of [...]

I have long kept politics off my blog here, because my main goal is to provide help, advice, and just little things I have learned along the way to my peers and fellow web workers. However, you could say I’ve seen just about one too many McCain ads and when I came across a video [...]

There’s a few people experiencing this error message when syncing their iPhones with iTunes. Some have suggested that the error can be solved by switching between syncing “All Applications” and “Selected Applications” or vice versa. However, this didn’t work for me. Thinking deeper on the issue, I remembered that I occasionally updated apps on my iPhone, [...]

At the company I work for, we store all our client files in a subversion repository. As I walked through the door on Monday, I was greeted with the glorious news that all the client files were gone. Gone? Yep. Nothing. Nada. Blank repository. After a brief temptation to throw myself out our 25th floor [...]

IE6 has been the bane of existence for web developers the world over. It’s complete lack of standards-support, buggy rendering, and arcane handling of code make it quite the little gremlin. When IE7 was first released, almost two years ago (October 18, 2006), we all hoped that IE6 would soon meet its end, but unfortunately, [...]

“The Customer is Always Right” became the mantra of “good” customer service long ago, but the concept has actually done more dis-service to customers than anything else. The customer, or client in this case, is generally not right. It is our job as “producers” to guide the client, some times kicking and screaming, down a [...]

In Rails 2.0, when you generate a new app, Rails defaults to SQLite3 as the default database adapter in database.yml. If you’d rather it generate database.yml for MySQL, you can use the following command to generate your app: rails -d mysql myapp Courtesy: Rails 2.0.2: Some new defaults and a few fixes

I got into a discussion today at work over whether or not having an .html file extension has any SEO benefits over an extensionless directory-style url. I did a little research online and found just about equal arguments for either side. On the .html file extension side, the argument is that having a file extension makes [...]

For those who are unfamiliar with IPython: it’s a Python shell replacement that adds many features for developers. It’s beyond the scope of this post to go into greater detail, but if you want to learn more you can visit the IPython website. IPython has been an enormous aid to me in developing with Django, but [...]