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sillygwailo / gist:1850462
Created February 17, 2012 03:54
drushrc.php
<?php
/**
* Based on the example provided at http://www.drush.org/examples/example.drushrc.php
// Specify a particular multisite.
# $options['l'] = 'http://example.com/subir';
// Specify your Drupal core base directory (useful if you use symlinks).
# $options['r'] = '/home/USER/workspace/drupal-6';
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sillygwailo / gist:2024801
Created March 12, 2012 21:30
Mac Tweaks
System Preferences:
Keyboard -> Modifier Keys -> No Action for Caps Lock # disable the capslock key, which I never use
Terminal:
sudo defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE # http://www.macworld.com/article/137800/2008/12/halfstaritunes.html
sudo defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true # prevent writing of .DS_Store files on network drives
sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library # show the home Library folder in Finder
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 # store hibernation info in memory, be vigilant about saving before battery dies
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sillygwailo / gist:2249822
Created March 30, 2012 08:40
Convert iPhone and BlackBerry latitude and longitudes in Twitter profiles to city name
<?php
/*
* requires the GeoCoder PHP library https://github.com/sillygwailo/GeoCoder
*/
include_once("./GeoCoder/GeoCoder.php");
$f = fopen("File to read here", 'r+');
$o = fopen("File to write here", 'w+');
$g = new GeoCoder('geocoder.ca API key here');
while ($c = fgetcsv($f)) {
if ($c[0] != 'screen_name') {
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sillygwailo / gist:2296464
Created April 3, 2012 23:56
Determine if Drupal core files have been modified
Based on http://www.geoffgolder.com/testing-if-your-drupal-core-is-hacked using a Mac and Drupal 6.x as the basis.
Download the tarball of the version of Drupal and untar it into its own directory. I'll use '6.22' as an example of an old version of Drupal to see if it was modified.
cd /path/to/clean/6.22
find . > /tmp/6.22.files.txt
cd /path/to/existing/project
find . > /tmp/project.files.txt
grep -x -f /tmp/6.22.files.txt /tmp/project.files.txt > /tmp/project.common.files.txt
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sillygwailo / .tm_properties
Created April 19, 2012 20:51
TextMate properties file
# set tabs to two spaces
tabSize = 2
softTabs = true
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sillygwailo / gist:2776116
Created May 23, 2012 16:04
Fixing Packt Publishing ePub files to show the author name in readers
1. mkdir 987654321
2. mv 98765432321.epub 987654321/
3. cd 987654321/
4. unzip 987654321.epub # or whatever the ePub filename is
5. edit OEBPS/content.opf in a text editor
6. replace
<dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" opf:file-as=""/>
with
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sillygwailo / gist:3107679
Created July 13, 2012 21:37
Raspberry Pi Yak Shaving
There will be some!
So far:
Need to figure out:
0. Preparing the SD card: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Copying_an_image_to_the_SD_Card_in_Mac_OS_X
1. power source for the unit(s)
2. what display to hook up, and how
3. acquiring a USB keyboard and mouse
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sillygwailo / gist:3172414
Created July 24, 2012 20:24 — forked from devstator82/gist:3158327
On the business of e-mail clients / Sparrow

On the business of e-mail clients

I have been following the whole debate around this e-mail client (Sparrow) getting bought by Google. E-mail clients and the e-mail business are something close to my heart as I have once spent considerable amount of time on my own e-mail client.

People seem to be pretty upset about this acquisition because one of their favourite apps apparantly won't be updated anymore in the future, which is understandable. But let's look at this discussion from the other side: e-mail clients as a business.

Now I don't know the facts, nor do I know the good people at Sparrow. But I do know this space very well and know the facts about the space. My own Inbox2 desktop (for Windows) had about 500.000 downloads and is still being downloaded today (I stopped working on that about 2 years ago). I am assuming Sparrow did much better then this but still the essentials would remain the same.

The facts based on my own experience

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sillygwailo / gist:3814331
Created October 1, 2012 20:52
Yak Shaving to re-install Flash for Safari on Mountain Lion
I'm tired of not having Adobe Flash on Safari, and no, I don't want to switch full-time to Chrome. Here's what I've tried to get Flash installed again, to no avail.
1. the "uninstall then install" trick using the software downloads
2. removing references to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player and anything like it
Haven't tried:
* completely resetting Safari (but if Flash in Firefox doesn't work, why would it work in Safari?)
* completely re-installing my OS (so need to do it, but so very time consuming to get back to a working state)
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sillygwailo / gist:3837156
Created October 4, 2012 23:40
Yak Shaving to Install Change By Us on a Mac (Mountain Lion)
https://github.com/localprojects/Change-By-Us
https://github.com/localprojects/Change-By-Us/wiki/Installation-Instructions-%28Mac%29
When installing lighthttpd through Homebrew, got this message:
* undefined method `xcrun'
Search for that led to https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/10327 Upgrade Homebrew
Tried sudo brew upgrade, attempted to upgrade 8 packages.