Saturday, September 29th, 2007
In the never-ending search for commuting content, I stumbled upon listening to words. It has a decent collection of interesting video and audio lectures available for free. Give it a listen.
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
A CSS framework that “gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.” Check it out. By the way, Google Code is starting to host some great stuff lately …
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Sometimes it is nice to be able to send huge files to people over the web without hosting a server. pando and YouSendIt are both good solutions for doing that. Pando gives 1GB free while YouSendIt gives 2GB.
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
I love the tagline “A really fast dictionary … fast like a ninja.” ninja words really is litening fast with instant results that show up in your browser window without reloading.
Nice use of AJAX.
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Good article series from Chad Fowler on why rewriting software often goes bad if you do it as a Big Rewrite. Kevin Barnes also has some thoughts.
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I was having trouble mounting, reading, or writing to an external USB hard drive on my Mac. Trouble was it is formatted with NTFS and I didn’t want to reformat. Solution: install macfuse and ntfs-3g then go to Terminal and type
diskutil list | grep Windows_NTFS
to find your NTFS disk matching /dev/disks, then mount the disk
mkdir /Volumes/ntfs
ntfs-3g /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/ntfs -ovolname="Fuse Drive"
Also, if you’d like to graphically mount a SSH or FTP share as a drive, install MacFusion. Now I wish MacFusion worked with NTFS too …
