I have recently released domdash.com an application to help those that have a growing domain portfolio keep on top of their status. This was a personal itch that I needed to scratch with a domain acquisition almost every couple of months and a new project being released almost every quarter, things were getting a little [...]
I have talked in the past about how to get a fully working time lapse system on a Mac using a webcam and some command line scripting. That was great but could do with some tweaks to get a more elegant solution which I attempted to reach here. I wanted to get more use out [...]
I created a terminal theme with a retro look of soft amber tones. I find this really nice to work with and have been using for a couple of months now. Download or fork it on Github. To use: download the amber.terminal file to your computer, open up Terminal.app, go to the preferences, settings tab, [...]
Shell scripts are a simple way of completing (repetitive) tasks on the command line, much like many programming languages will be used. You will see ~ something — ignore the ‘~’ this is to signify that it is a command entered onto the command line itself. Writing the code ~ vi helloworld.sh #!/bin/bash # My [...]
Me on a time lapse from James Broad on Vimeo. This video is what you can create (that or something similar) by following these steps on your Mac. Step 1 Download & install a command line webcam capture utility, we will be using isightcapture http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18598 Open the DMG and extract the binary to /usr/bin/ sudo [...]
So the problem is that you want to eject a disk/DMG/mount on your Mac and it says it is still in use “The disk “x” is in use and could not be ejected.”. Here is the solution using your command line (Terminal.app) to be able to safely eject the mount. lsof +D /Volumes/{VolumeName}/ This will [...]
After presenting on PHP, OAuth and Web Services (4th February 2009) it became apparent that the main killer technology was YQL. YQL for those unfamiliar with the acronym is Yahoo Query Language, a SQL like syntax that will let you query a whole host of data sources as if it were a database table. Is [...]
View the template It’s been a while since releasing an open source web template, the last one being Mighty, added back in January of 2007. Mighty was a template created to allow others to take a basic design and allow them to modify most aspects of the template with relative ease (given some CSS understanding). [...]
If you are running and administering your own website, the chances are that your reputation relies on you having a stable site, or at least one that your users can reach. The problem is; how often do you check your site is up and running or how you expect it to look? Probably not often. [...]
In case you have not already noticed, there has been some tweaks to Carbon Silk over the last couple of weeks (that last bit rhymes). It was about time that Carbon Silk demanded some development attention, that has otherwise been snatched from other pressing commitments including; travel, moneyio and work. Without further ado, this is [...]