If you use TextMate when you’re coding for the web you’ll probably have at least tried out Jim Jeffer’s CSS Bundle, which was inspired by an article by Jina Bolton. If not check it out!
When I first downloaded it I was impressed but not exactly blown away as the snippets don’t really leverage the true power of TextMate’s bundle system. I had to get to work to make things a lot smoother. (more…)
Since the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware I’ve become a stubble covered hobo with a taste for £1.99 tipples. After having an iPhone for several months the initial lust started to turn in to more of a comfortable facet of every day life. But thanks to the App Store, my relationship with my darling iPhone has been revitalised. And now, the sex has never been better! (more…)
When I’m making a script for someone I always think it’s nice to add a bit of colour to anything output by Ruby. Not to be garish… We don’t want command line filth reminiscent of Geocities after all! But if there’s an obvious exception that ends our fun it’s good to highlight that. (more…)
I had a problem to fix a few months back where by something like 1000 users had totally bricked their home folder permissions. Trying to propagate permissions from Workgroup Manager (it was a 10.4.11 server) kept hanging and would only fix home folders up to the letter “d.” It was at this point I was called in to write a script so a colleague could repair the permissions without running the risk of annihilating the home folders from the command line. (more…)
A while back I wanted to know what people were listening to if they were sharing my iTunes library. I used lsof in a little bash script to find out. (more…)
This is an old script I’ve had lying around in my Code folder for a while now. It’s still pretty useful, even in Leopard. It basically takes a buddy’s image of your choice and uses it as your own. Furthermore, it attempts to save a copy of the buddy image on your desktop. It can be quite entertaining if not functional on occasions. (more…)
A while back I was asked by a colleague if I could automate starting a number of SSH connections based on the current selection in ARD. This may seem pointless given that you can run UNIX commands in ARD but it is not. With SSH you get an interactive shell; quite different from just being able to send commands and receive a sample of the response! (more…)
The Only James is really James Conroy-Finn, a developer and technical consultant who is using this web log to share his thoughts and discoveries in the hope that it may help you avoid the complexity and navigate nuances associated with computing and development.
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