Pbur's Adventures

The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Category Archives: General

links for 2008-10-16

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Andre on Tech: PostgreSQL on Leopard gotchas Tips for installing Postgresql on leopard (tags: postgresql osx mac install postgres leopard) Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you perform a new Windows XP installation or you repair a Windows XP installation When Windows Updates start […]

links for 2008-10-12

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Making Tomcat Session Management Work With Sub Domains (tags: Tomcat Session)

links for 2008-10-06

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What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago? – Stack Overflow Greate XCode tips (tags: Xcode)

Owens Country Farm

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Today we took Brenden to the Owens Country Farm in Richardson. That’s the same Owens as the sausage. There they have animals to feed and a hay ride. During the Fall, they also have pumpkins. Brenden had a really good time and got to see a lot of animals and rode like a big boy […]

Today: A Companion For iCal

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Have you ever wanted to quickly add an event to iCal but didn’t actually want to either launch it or bring it forward? Or you wanted to take a quick look at your schedule for today? Well, earlier this year Second Gear Software released a new utility for OS X called Today that does just […]

links for 2008-09-22

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Mollom New Blog spam prevention service (tags: wordpress spam tools webservice) VMware Communities: A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion Awesome VMWare Fusion tips (tags: macosx tips vmware)

links for 2008-09-02

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File upload in Rails Good example of how to handle all file sizes with Rails file upload (tags: Rails Upload)

links for 2008-07-30

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Git for the lazy – Spheriki (tags: versioncontrol tutorial scm reference git cheatsheet)

links for 2008-07-18

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scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way (tags: git howto Server hosting gitosis)

Moving!

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I’m hoping I not going to jinx things, but we should be moving to our “new” house next week. It will be so nice to finally have this whole selling/buying a house thing behind us. It is a seriously bassackwards process. We’re pretty excited about the new place even though it’s not a brand new […]

links for 2008-07-09

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How to use your PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro or MacBook with the display closed (tags: apple mac tips osx macbook howto)

links for 2008-07-01

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Google Mac Developer Playground – Google Code (tags: apple cocoa development google mac) Cornerstone Mac Subversion Client (tags: OS X SVN Client)

Brenden has something he’d like to share

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Yes, that’s right, we’re going to have another baby! This one is due Jan. 15th, but as Maggie noted on her blog, it will probably be earlier due to her diabetes. We will post updates as things move along.

links for 2008-06-27

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Macworld | Turn down the volume on your e-mail (tags: Mail Tips)

links for 2008-06-22

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Learning Cocoa — ones zeros majors and minors (tags: Cocoa Mac OSX Programming) Cocoa Bindings Examples and Hints A great list of Cocoa hints (tags: apple cocoa development objective-c programming tutorial)

links for 2008-06-19

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Rails cheat sheet for making patches from Git (tags: git development tips)

links for 2008-06-04

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Procrastination Flow Chart! (tags: procrastination humor funny) TUAW Tip: Setting your clock automatically after using Boot Camp (tags: OSX Bootcamp date)

links for 2008-06-03

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Git Magic (tags: git Programming tutorial reference) Version Control for Designers – Using Git (tags: git tutorial versioncontrol)

links for 2008-06-01

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postgresql gem on Leopard stock gem system (tags: postgresql gem ruby install) It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds … now that really IS a Christmas dinner | Mail Online (tags: cooking turducken blog_topic)

links for 2008-05-27

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cheat git Great git cheatsheet (tags: git cheatsheet development reference tips scm)