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A Quick Thought: Apple’s AppStore
I don’t feel tempted to browse through the AppStore. Not at all. I regularly browse iTunes, to check out the latest songs. I’m an active window shopper in the music section. But my general process of discovery in…
May 22 2009, 12:17am | Comments »
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MacHeist3 — 12 Mac Apps for 39$
Once a year the MacHeist Team offers a nice bundle of Mac applications for a small price—this year’s bundle consists of iSale, Picturesque, SousChef, World Of Goo, PhoneView, LittleSnapper, Acorn, Kinemac, WireTap Studio, BoinxTV, The Hit List and…
March 27 2009, 10:33am | Comments »
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Deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger
In my early Ruby on Rails days, each time I wanted to deploy a new version of an application on the server, I had to update the code from SVN, create new symlinks, […] and restart a bunch…
March 12 2009, 1:27pm | Comments »
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Silverback Goodies — Thanks Clearleft!
A few months ago, I’ve been working on a project in a different area than what I normally do. Together with two other guys we localised Clearleft’s usability testing software Silverback and created a German version. Thanks to…
March 9 2009, 11:09am | Comments »
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MySQL: Moving databases easily with mysqldump
As a follow up to my last post on MySQL, How to allow connections from outside of localhost, I’d like to write down how I recently moved some databases from one server to another (I assume you’re on…
February 21 2009, 9:15am | Comments »
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MySQL: How to allow connections from outside of localhost
Searching for a decent host I found a new home for my Ruby on Rails powered websites on a self administrated Debian Etch server. To manipulate the MySQL databases I’m running on it, I’m using CocoaMySQL—trouble was, I…
February 18 2009, 11:21pm | Comments »
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Right now I have 54 apps on my iPhone—including Apple’s pre-installed ones like SMS, Calendar, Safari and Mail. 27 more are stored on my computer, but iTunes is configured to not sync these ones as I don’t want…
February 9 2009, 7:12pm | Comments »
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I know I’m late, but I just updated my Blog’s software to WordPress 2.7—if you should encounter any problems on this site, please tell me about it Thanks to the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin” upgrading was done in…
January 14 2009, 5:19pm | Comments »
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
I just finished reading Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Kevin Rose talked about it on Diggnation some time ago and it seemed very interesting, so I immediately ordered the hardcover with Amazon.…
December 3 2008, 9:38am | Comments »
