“Fixes up Triggers, puts advanced features on the mantelpiece, and drops ß62 off at the recycle centreUsers are appreciating the auto updates of Quicksilver and its plugins introduced recently. Unfortunately, a nasty bug in ß61 meant app updates failed to stick, leaving users with the false impression that they were running the latest version. In a few cases, QS ß62 crashing caused custom Catalogs to be deleted and mnemonics to be lost. Thanks to rapid user feedback, we were able to pull the release before many people were affected.”–via Quicksilver — LoveQuicksilver Blog.

Tags: quicksilver

“Safari has a hidden “Debug” menu that offers some additional features for debugging the browser, including stress and load tests, sampling, javascript error logging, the ability to intentionally crash a page, and more. Intended for Safari developers, the Debug menu is different from the Developer menu, which is geared more at web developers, although there are a few options in the Debug menu that general web developers would find useful as well, notably advanced cache choices and CSS animation controls. If this sounds confusing, just enable both of them and poke around and you’ll quickly see the differences.”–via Enable Safari’s Hidden Debug Menu.

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

I was hoping to pull off the same big contest and hoopla I pulled off last year during the Movember movement. Unfortunately internal scheduling and some farily big staffing changes has made that impossible this year. So instead, on a personal level, I am telling you about my mospace page.

I wish I could have offered you prizes and such like I did last year but I’m afraid that just wasn’t in the cards this year. If you could find it in your heart to donate anyhow, that would be much appreciated.

Tags: fund, movember, raising

Nothing big, just need to document this stuff or else I forget…

$ sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini
$ sudo php /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar
$ sudo pear config-set php_ini /private/etc/php.ini
$ sudo pecl config-set php_ini /private/etc/php.ini
$ sudo pear upgrade-all

Tags: install, lion, mac, os x, pear, php

“If you, like me, get annoyed by the index files Spotlight creates any time you create an external hard drive, you might want to try this hint. Were going to set up a launchd service which runs a script every time a hard drive is mounted. This script will touch the .metadata_never_index file which prevents Spotlight from creating the index; see this hint on the hard drive.”–via Mac OS X Hints.

Tags: drives, external, hard, indexing, Spotlight, USB

“Email automation is usually popular among AppleScript developers using Mac OS X. By writing scripts to perform email-related processes, developers can automate processes such as sending batches of recipient-customized messages, archiving emails in text format or in a database, emailing status reports to administrators, and much more.”–via Article archive | MacTech.

Tags: applescript, automation, mail

“Here’s a simple tutorial to get many websites running on one ubuntu serverLet’s say you have root access to your own server and want to run many websites on it. If you have Ubuntu Server running with Apache, I will show you in a few easy steps how to configure and run as many websites on your server as the load can handle.Follow these simple instructions and your additional websites will up and running immediately.”–via Ubuntu Server – Configure and Run Multiple Websites on One Server | Tech Exposures.

Tags: Apache, linux, server, site, ubuntu, web

“Each program started from that shell will have VARNAME set to new value. The names of environment variables are case-sensitive; by convention they are uppercase. A shell variable is like an environment variable, except that it is not exported to new programs started from that shell. You could export it, but normally you just write a shell initialisation script to set it in each shell.”–via Guide to Unix/Environment Variables – Wikibooks, open books for an open world.

Tags: environment, shell, unix, variables

“The jQuery .css function allows one to retrieve an existing value from, or set a new value to, the DOM elements you specify.Of course, you dont need jQuery to do this but this is my website, and I like it, so there. Everything about this function works exactly as it says on the tin except, Ive found, when retrieving the background-position attribute in pre-IE9 Internet Explorer.”–via Jon Combe | Code | JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and the background-position attribute.

Tags: background, IE, position