Ladybird Free at Last

February 25, 2009

According to local bystanders the ladybird became lodged under the wooden train bridge at about 2:30 p.m. today.
Police rescue teams worked tirelessly to free the frightened ‘bird.
The Ladybird was rushed to the “Ladybird Rescue Vehicle” on extraction… The vehicle apparently custom made for such missions.
Officials have pledged to create new signs specifically designed to warn [...]

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Yummy Tips!

February 25, 2009

This is some Yummy tips for web developers, or people that have a few websites and use Yummy FTP to upload files.

Under Preferences -> Advanced Settings, set the “Mac browser Home folder” for each website. Un-check the “Use setting from preferences” option. It saves a lot of time when you set the local/remote home folders [...]

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Mongol

September 26, 2008

I went to see Mongol last night, a movie about the young Ghengis Khan (Temujin). Although I thought the editing was disjointed it still told an informative story set against an amazing Mongolian landscape.
The movie ended just before Temujin went on to become “Genghis Khan”.
I think this is the first movie in a planned trilogy [...]

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[possible] Local Homebrew Competition @ The Twisted Hop

September 26, 2008

That’s right folks, you heard it here first…
I was talking to the manager down at the twisted hop the other night to see if he thought there was a market for a brew pub selling ever-changing beer on tap- through experimentation and listening to customers feedback.
It’s still a good idea, imagine heading down to a [...]

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Convert Mac Icon File into Useable Web Graphic

September 25, 2008

With all these fancy-free Mac Icons you can download, why not spice up your web applications and use them online?
The problem is that the Icon files can’t be opened by Photoshop (there might be a plug-in I’m unaware of that does this). So we need a way of importing the graphic into Photoshop.
Luckily you can [...]

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Singletons in PHP4

September 25, 2008

Not everybody is developing on PHP5 these days, even though PHP4 is no longer supported *yikes!*
And these people (namely me) need a way to implement the Singleton pattern.
The Singleton pattern is single-handedly the single most useful pattern when you only ever want to have one instance of a class instantiated at any one time.
Now [...]

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Christchurch Rubbish Collection 2009

September 24, 2008

Oh yes, I’m concerned about our cities Rubbish Collection plans and policies, aren’t you?
Well you should be, within the next month we’re going to have these strange plastic structures turning up at our houses, with wheels where their feet should be! Get ready Christchurch, the wheelie bins are coming!
Don’t get too excited though, because we [...]

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Zend Studio Eclipse – What Grinds My Gears

September 24, 2008

As many of you budding php developers know, Zend released their “Neon” version of Studio for Eclipse (Zend Studio 6.0) some time ago, it is perhaps (as far as I know) the most ambitious PHP IDE to date.
My list of gripes about this project are as follows:

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Soundfonts and Garageband… Yippee!

February 7, 2008

I was just sorting through a bunch of old CD’s when I came across one filled to the brim with Soundfonts – You know those magical files that are actually software instruments made up from samples – Well it turns out You can use Soundfonts in Garageband! Here’s how:

Copy your soundfonts to “/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks” folder (It [...]

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Can’t delete mail in Mail

February 7, 2008

This damn near drove me insane for a few months. However I never looked for a solution, never read the manual (who does?) and never asked anyone. I just silently stared at my email that couldn’t be deleted…
Until today.
Finally I figured you can click on Mailbox and then Rebuild and it fixes everything up just [...]

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