Big Sur’s Finder Copy change broke my Keyboard Maestro macro
In Catalina, Copy in Finder gets the path of a file. In Big Sur, it only gets the filename. One can hold down ⌥+⌘+C (or ⌥ and select Copy from the Finder men...
In Catalina, Copy in Finder gets the path of a file. In Big Sur, it only gets the filename. One can hold down ⌥+⌘+C (or ⌥ and select Copy from the Finder men...
In Evernote 10, I have lost the ability to include general URLs as linked items. The links already in a note still work but Evernote 10 does not allow the i...
I was working on a the last note and wanted to check things out under a fresh install. I decided to make a new Mac User to accomplish this. I used GitHub for...
The path is an environmental variable that tells the command line (shell) processor where to look for programs (commands) to run when they are entered on the...
This plug-in makes EMBEDed PDF files in Safari 5+ and Firefox work!
As the MacDefender phishing installing malware becomes prevalent, folks are repeating security advice such as the following from MacFixit (of the CNet organi...
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
In Apple Trying to Ditch Java from Mac OS X, But Why? by Cory Bohon on Mac|Life the author reviews Apple’s recent announcement and his take on the situation....
OS X made the jump to a 64bit platform with 10.6 Snow Leopard. Of course, not everything is written for 64 bit mode at present. The Universal file format a...
Preview.app (the PDF and graphic viewer) will update itself to changes in the underlying file when it gains focus. That makes it more valuable for applicatio...
The old approach is no longer but valid but there is a new release which uses the service model. I always use symbolic links over aliases as it works at the ...
Last post for today. On suitably new portable Mac’s, one can do a 4-finger swipe which seems to be the equivalent of the Windows ALT+TAB (and the Mac CMD+TAB...
I have now installed Snow Leopard on 3 machines (1 more to go plus a server).
I have been using Apple’s Mail.app as my client to talk to the University’s Exchange 2007 server. I really don’t like the monster database file that Microsof...
Boy, the trade-offs in Mac Mail clients can drive you crazy. The Mail.app has appealing features like templates, AOL presence detection, use of files to sto...
I found an Apple reference that suggested that dragging the Hard Disk and the Filevault folder into (and later out of) the “exclude” from Spotlight window (i...
When I started trying to use the new Notes feature in Mail.app, I was having trouble with them not being stored on the Exchange server. I found that I neede...
This is an update to an earlier post adding the ability to include jar files from other projects
Now CoolBeans has been renamed OpenBeans
An update to this article is available
Working with NetBeans 9 with an OpenJDK 10 install on a MacOS Mojave machine.
This is an update to a prior article.
The following code
There are lots of ways to evaluate popularity, and in the end, all are probably very transitory. In his Quartz article, Max Nisen examined American job data ...
For years, I have been using (and advising the use of sun.audio) for playing sounds in the Java VM using Alvin Alexander’s article for inspiration. The down...
Oracle Java on OS X
Redcar
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
In Apple Trying to Ditch Java from Mac OS X, But Why? by Cory Bohon on Mac|Life the author reviews Apple’s recent announcement and his take on the situation....
Instructors and projects usually have documentation standards. The standards I supply my students are an abbreviated version of what a project team might us...
I have now installed Snow Leopard on 3 machines (1 more to go plus a server).
The details are given in Thiam Teck’s Blog.
My rule is, people don’t get promoted for what they know; they get promoted for the class of problem they can solve.
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown
/\ndy: Warning! Deadlines are closer than they appear
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leon...
email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can’t kill it.
Herding Cats: Quote of the Day: Well Done is Better Than Well Said
Check security - when code looks like it can not possibly be wrong, you may be bumping up against a security rule.
The only reason to answer the phone when a customer calls is to make the customer happy. If you’re not doing this or you are unable to do this, do not ...
Interesting presentation on both views on communication as well as an interesting slide technique. While you are there, check out a few of her other presenta...
New sign in my office: “How do you want your answer? (Choose two) Immediate. Accurate. Brief.
The user manual is a list of software design mistakes.
Facilitate a process by which errors are found by one’s colleagues not by one’s users.
First Law of Software Development
email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can’t kill it.
Email Sanity: How to Clear Your Inbox When You’re Drowning by Zen Habits
I have been using Apple’s Mail.app as my client to talk to the University’s Exchange 2007 server. I really don’t like the monster database file that Microsof...
Lots of posts today. In recording my Snow Leopard experiences, it occurred to me that a decision I made recently regarding handling of sent mail had not been...
Just a preliminary thought based on a few observations on my Mac…
Well I did it. I have moved my IEEE mail over to GMail from my university mail. I still can use the Apple Mail integrated client and the iPhone to monitor ...
In response to my last post (which I e-mailed ((blush)) to him), RonJ shared a link to a blog of someone working to rid himself of e-mail. I found this post ...
Coding Horror: Is Email = Efail?
Ouch. Sure want to use the Apple trio (Mail, iCal, Address Book) rather than Entourage so that I can take advantage of the ease of incremental backup and su...
Boy, the trade-offs in Mac Mail clients can drive you crazy. The Mail.app has appealing features like templates, AOL presence detection, use of files to sto...
When I started trying to use the new Notes feature in Mail.app, I was having trouble with them not being stored on the Exchange server. I found that I neede...
Evernote sharing behavior and implications for family sharing
An approach to migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
Naming considerations for Evernote to make improve Interoperability”
Transform a Wikilink app link in Evernote
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Staying with Evernote 10 – it is good enough
In Evernote 10, I have lost the ability to include general URLs as linked items. The links already in a note still work but Evernote 10 does not allow the i...
Here is a hint that I was not able to find quickly in Google nor in the EverNote help.
One more service that I have started using for a bit is Evernote. Evernote is a tool to archive items and works as a web application inside many browsers in...
The Web & Business Tools Startups Use Most [INFOGRAPHIC]
I ran across a write up on Ghostery in the most recent edition of MacWorld (not online yet). According to its website,
Khan Academy looks to bridge the education gap with online learning
… it involved refactoring the HTML & CSS for better efficiency. We also created a style guide to document the new front-end architecture. We’re sharin...
If you are site owner (or can look like one), you can use Google’s tools to remove items from Google rather easily. Adding things into Google is substantiall...
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998
From another Tumbler – Academic Earth
So DavidB and I are working on a new bug in OUMgt -> folks can’t upload .jpg and .png files into our RAILS app. This used to work.
This is an update to an earlier post adding the ability to include jar files from other projects
Now CoolBeans has been renamed OpenBeans
An update to this article is available
Working with NetBeans 9 with an OpenJDK 10 install on a MacOS Mojave machine.
Many years ago, I wrote a post about how to use the NetBeans template system for my students. It quickly covered the basics and demonstrated how to set thin...
Oracle Java on OS X
I wanted to produce a collection of PDF files associated with the source of an applications developed in NetBeans (6.9). The File | Print option in Project v...
Instructors and projects usually have documentation standards. The standards I supply my students are an abbreviated version of what a project team might us...
After installing the VM on the computer, one can make a new Rails App by the following process:
GitHub has now made a nice simple GUI tool for both OS X and Windows. They have made them freely available for download. They seem to have made careful choic...
There are several posts about using DropBox for the remote repository for Git. I wanted my local Git repository on DropBox to share between machines with a r...
This is a small expansion on an earlier post about svn merging.
How to make Subversion ignore files: svn propset svn:ignore
Lots of work has been done by the Subversion team (probably in response to Git). One can now do a merge from a project branch back into the main trunk rathe...
I had two demons: a new library and a language I was not really familiar with. A formula for puzzles. I did not find quickly the right example to do the jQue...
I was trying out the EPUB export of VoodooPad and figured out I had to make a cover page in the tool as well as a collection. I then filled out the metadata ...
I turned on (for a few minutes) deletions of iCal events. Some of my calendars are hosted in Exchange and some on Google. Some of these events are group meet...
Dropbox Accidentally Unlocked All Accounts for 4 Hours
Am I the only one is bothered by having Apple iTunes drop your purchase request when Apple decides to change their terms and forces you to agree to the new t...
Sometimes you think you are going crazy only to find out it is a software bug (or feature!).
After eight years of using Octopress, this site is moving to a purer Jekyll blog using Minimal Mistakes Theme. I have previously written about the problems ...
In Catalina, Copy in Finder gets the path of a file. In Big Sur, it only gets the filename. One can hold down ⌥+⌘+C (or ⌥ and select Copy from the Finder men...
OS X made the jump to a 64bit platform with 10.6 Snow Leopard. Of course, not everything is written for 64 bit mode at present. The Universal file format a...
I have now installed Snow Leopard on 3 machines (1 more to go plus a server).
I am still using the Octopress 2 framework for the website. This has been challenging as the dependencies for old obsolete software gets harder and harder t...
Watching the Twitter posts, it looks like a lot of work has gone into building Octopress 3.0 around a somewhat different philosophy than Octopress 2.0 making...
In a long overdue action, I have moved the glimmer blog out of Tumblr. I had been wanting to use (Multi-)Markdown more in blogging to continue my focusing o...
Congratulations on bringing light into the Dark-room!
There are lots of ways to evaluate popularity, and in the end, all are probably very transitory. In his Quartz article, Max Nisen examined American job data ...
After installing the VM on the computer, one can make a new Rails App by the following process:
Ten Things You Didnt Know Rails Could Do - James Edward Gray II - RailsConf 2012
Testing Legacy Rails Apps » SlideShare
CalDAV Calendar Sync : CalDAV - Google Mobile Help
For me, it it is adding an @IEEE.org as an alternate from: address in the iPhone mail client associated with a Google gmail account.
Onto the iPhone
For me, it it is adding an @IEEE.org as an alternate from: address in the iPhone mail client associated with a Google gmail account.
Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 9. It can’t multitask — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Techs Hottest Startup - Forbes
Back in an earlier post, I lamented about some of the errors made by DropBox that (greatly) reduced the security on data and how I was looking at SpiderOak.
Dropbox Accidentally Unlocked All Accounts for 4 Hours
As the MacDefender phishing installing malware becomes prevalent, folks are repeating security advice such as the following from MacFixit (of the CNet organi...
A Well Designed Markdown Editor for Writing
After eight years of using Octopress, this site is moving to a purer Jekyll blog using Minimal Mistakes Theme. I have previously written about the problems ...
I am still using the Octopress 2 framework for the website. This has been challenging as the dependencies for old obsolete software gets harder and harder t...
In a long overdue action, I have moved the glimmer blog out of Tumblr. I had been wanting to use (Multi-)Markdown more in blogging to continue my focusing o...
Updated: 10 June 2020 removed LibreOffice as tool, comments about Word Online
I having been keeping three office suites (MS Office 2008, OpenOffice.Org, and iWork) on the MacBook Air I use. After looking at the interoperability glitch...
So DavidB and I are working on a new bug in OUMgt -> folks can’t upload .jpg and .png files into our RAILS app. This used to work.
Standards: IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine (3.2 Why Standards Matter)
IEEE Solutionists
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
This plug-in makes EMBEDed PDF files in Safari 5+ and Firefox work!
Video Project Calculator ☹️ dead url
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds (☹️ dead URL now)
In an earlier post, I cited a particular lecture of a course series. I am now 8 lectures into the series on power mind mapping by NovaMind. They, of course,...
XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping
Gideon King of NovaMind is producing a free series of video courses on using MindMaps. Lesson 2: Power Mind Mapping lesson 2 - using Mind Mapping techniques...
Number of confirmed tornadoes in Alabama last week climbs to 23 from al.com
Alabama tornadoes: Close-up satellite imagery shows before-and-after devastation in Tuscaloosa and Pleasant Grove (interactive) from al.com
Google Helping With Victorian Bushfires Using Google Map
I ran across a write up on Ghostery in the most recent edition of MacWorld (not online yet). According to its website,
Does Cloud Computing Mean More Risks to Privacy? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
A story that now has a sad ending
Choosing Which Calendars to Sync : Mail, Calendar, & Contacts - Google Mobile Help
Doodle is a neat tool for scheduling efforts of people across systems. I use it a lot both for UAB and IEEE activities. Once one builds an account it becomes...
The Bitnami install doccumented earlier is a bit broken relative to MySQL. Evidently, when Bitnami installs in the VM situation and moves itself to the /opt/...
After installing the VM on the computer, one can make a new Rails App by the following process:
In my Software Engineering Projects class, we are going to do a RAILS-based project. Based on feedback from last year’s class, I am furnishing students with...
After eight years of using Octopress, this site is moving to a purer Jekyll blog using Minimal Mistakes Theme. I have previously written about the problems ...
I am still using the Octopress 2 framework for the website. This has been challenging as the dependencies for old obsolete software gets harder and harder t...
Watching the Twitter posts, it looks like a lot of work has gone into building Octopress 3.0 around a somewhat different philosophy than Octopress 2.0 making...
An approach to migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Safe booting for FileVault users is now possible again in OS X 10.8.3. As always, you hold down the (left) shift key right after the chime when booting. Yo...
Ouch. Sure want to use the Apple trio (Mail, iCal, Address Book) rather than Entourage so that I can take advantage of the ease of incremental backup and su...
Redcar
How I use TextMate
Does Cloud Computing Mean More Risks to Privacy? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
This morning’s mail brought a news e-mail with an article by Mike Fratto Bandwidth Management Coming To You - Analytics - InformationWeek. This struck a cho...
My wife asked me about a strange number that had shown up on her cell phone. She went to the Google and found out that it had been reported by others. Some a...
This morning’s mail brought a news e-mail with an article by Mike Fratto Bandwidth Management Coming To You - Analytics - InformationWeek. This struck a cho...
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Techs Hottest Startup - Forbes
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix
In a long overdue action, I have moved the glimmer blog out of Tumblr. I had been wanting to use (Multi-)Markdown more in blogging to continue my focusing o...
Free Installation Guides for Apple Mac mini
I have switched to Lion along with much of the rest of the world. Trying out the track pad as well. One of the things I have not heard mentioned is the two-f...
SheevaPlug Dev Kit - Linux Computer as Power Module
CalDAV Calendar Sync : CalDAV - Google Mobile Help
Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 9. It can’t multitask — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
ongoing by Tim Bray · Giving Up On Patents
Nathan Myhrvolds Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown from Techdirt
MultiMarkdown and Scrivener for Efficient Blogging
I have been using MultiMarkdown for a while now. I use it for creating simple text files that I want to read in text mode but also want to perhaps “dress up”...
all about agile: Agile Principle #7: “done” means “DONE!”
Updated: 20210909
I am reading an interesting book - Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt that came out in September 2008. The book works throug...
Selenium web application testing system
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix
Contrasting Apple and Microsoft’s Product Strategy: A Tale of Two Spills
Free Installation Guides for Apple Mac mini
Career Focus: Software Engineering
Standards: IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine (3.2 Why Standards Matter)
Gmail: It’s cooler in the cloud - Official Gmail Blog
How Googles Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum
Does it have to be this hard?
The Bitnami install doccumented earlier is a bit broken relative to MySQL. Evidently, when Bitnami installs in the VM situation and moves itself to the /opt/...
This is an update to an earlier post adding the ability to include jar files from other projects
Naming considerations for Evernote to make improve Interoperability”
Naming considerations for Evernote to make improve Interoperability”