The Only James

That’s right, we’re rolling back in time to the good old Web 2.0 days. All we need now is a beta badge to go with my work in progress theme.

As things stand at present I’ve got to tweak the footer as it’s unbalanced and I have a few other improvements to make including adding some clever navigation tools and adding/removing some padding and margins here and there.

Please let me know what you think of the new look and share any thoughts on how to make it better.

I have added aliases and other customisations to my bash shell over the last four years to reach a point I’m quite happy with.

Ultimately, I think everyone’s shell will be different as well perform different tasks and have different priorities. Read the rest of this entry »

Awk is a programming language, which I only use in it’s most basic form. Quite often I need to format a few lines of text, as is the case with an OD password reset script I’m working on. Read the rest of this entry »

If you administrate a number of Mac clients you’ll no doubt be familiar with Apple’s Remote Desktop. As is the case with most software additional functionality becomes available in new release and ARD is no exception. Hence the ARD client version is a relevant piece of information and when I needed to get the information from a user without using Remote Desktop itself I came up with the following code. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been using a shell script to list any tracks open with in iTunes for quite some time now; I’m doing this so I can work out what people are streaming over Bonjour. I’ve been piping the output to my desktop using GeekTool but recently decided the output was ugly and needed some reformatting. Ruby, I need you my darling! Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve found myself using the Google AJAX libraries API recently. The benefits include reduced page loading time thanks to caching per library rather than per library and per site. Typing the script src tag and the google.load code over and over becomes tedious however and doesn’t agree with the TextMate ethos. Hence I came up with a snippet, which I want to share, for including a Google hosted JS library. Read the rest of this entry »

I have just replaced the modified K2 theme I have been using for quite some time with Grady. The theme still needs a bit of work and due to a bug in the latest development version of Wordpress I can’t readily modify the widgets in the Grady’s sidebar.

Please bear with me while I make the necessary changes and if you realy dislike the changes let me know. Maybe we’ll go back to the way things were.

I just want to clarify the current state of my online world. I have setup a Tumblr! powered app at http://log.jamesconroyfinn.com, which essentially reads everything I do online. This includes with Twitter updates, Flickr posts and anything that comes out of this blog. Read the rest of this entry »