Hearing Japanese - Magi, Part 2 japanese
I finished up watching the Magi anime a few days ago and took some more notes. Here they are: Vocabulary List: What I thought I heard What I actually heard Meaning yatsura やつら 奴ら those guys shikashi しかし However; but... read more...
— 12 May, 2013

Change Date Modified On A File Osx osx nix
In order to test some file based caching I designed in PHP the other day I had to expire one of my cache files by making it older than 1 day. To do that I used touch -mt: touch -mt... read more...
— 11 May, 2013

Creating A Keyboard Shortcut In Sublime To Open Specific Files code
Today I figured out how to create a keyboard shortcut to open a specific file in Sublime Text 2. This is useful, for example, for hotkeying my MAMP apache vhosts file—a file I commonly edit. Add the following to your... read more...
— 10 May, 2013

Japanese Section Launched! blog
Despite the fact that I did start writing articles yesterday tonight is the actual night I am launching the content, since I had to do quite a bit of work to figure out how I wanted the pages to be... read more...
— 09 May, 2013

Hearing Japanese - Magi japanese
Today I started studying Japanese together with a friend. We both had studied separately and decided to brush up on our japanese. In addition to going through my beginner textbook, Japanese for Busy People, I decided that I would augment... read more...
— 08 May, 2013

Adding Keywords From Firefox Address Bar blog
Typically for development I like to use the Firefox keywords feature to get me to where I need to be faster. The irritating part of this is that in order to create a keyword for a site you typically have... read more...
— 18 April, 2013

WordPress - Programmatically Getting the Latest Post in a Category code
I’ve seen a lot of solutions for this online but I didn’t really like any of them and they didn’t seem to fit my needs. Here is a function I wrote that you can add to your functions.php in your... read more...
— 08 April, 2013

Wordpress 500 Errors, White Screen of Death (WSOD), the Cause and the Cure. code
Since many of you are probably looking for an immediate solution to the problem I will post my solution first. The Cure Let’s dive right in. First thing you should probably do is check your error logs (i.e., your apache... read more...
— 04 April, 2013

Quickly Showing a Hidden OS X Dock nix
A friend of mine for years has been searching for a way to instantly show his auto-hidden dock, with zero delay. Until he recently discovered the trick to removing the delay and shared it with me I could not understand... read more...
— 10 January, 2013

Upgrading grep in OS X Revisited osx
Just the other day I realized I was using the OS X stock grep, which was lacking a few features I wanted, some features in particular are the ability to fully color highlight grep results with the --color option, or... read more...
— 02 January, 2013

Creating CSS Sprites for LESS nix
Recently I’ve been working on a project which is using LESS to preprocess its CSS. The mockup design I was given requires image rollovers—which for the sake of having the rollover image ready and loaded—calls for the use of CSS... read more...
— 02 January, 2013

Steam Powered SSD blog
Anyone who owns a solid state hard drive and has a steam account can know how frustrating it may be running low on hard disk and not being able to split up your steam games. Today I’ve come up with... read more...
— 20 April, 2012

Upgrading grep in OS X osx
This Article Is Outdated The information in this article is outdated and may contain information which is now incorrect. A newer version of this article is now available. By default OS X (10.7 in this case) comes installed with grep... read more...
— 14 March, 2012

Gettin' Tango Wid it osx
Recently I decided to give Sequel Pro another whirl instead of running SQLyog as I normally do on OS X under wine using WineBotter. My first objective, however, was to customize the color scheme to something my eyes are more... read more...
— 13 March, 2012

Monaco "Bold" - Fixing the Ugly OS X Fonts in Lion nix
One thing that’s really bugged me since I started using OS X Lion was the way my favorite coding font—Monaco—appears at 14pt and above. On my Snow Leopard installation of OS X the fonts appear bold-ish, but on Lion they... read more...
— 29 February, 2012

PHPUnit Fails Silently, Returning Code 255 code
A few days ago I set up PHPUnit on my OS X using MAMP’s pear. Everything seemed to be set up properly except I kept getting this weird issue anytime I ran phpunit, I would get the following: specs/ (dev)... read more...
— 27 February, 2012

Autocompleting Rake Tasks In Bash code
I found out today that it’s possible to autocomplete rake tasks in bash. All that’s needed is a simple ruby script and some changes to your ~/.profile. (Original information taken from a tumble blog post) First you need to grab... read more...
— 27 February, 2012

Including Files Using Straight HTML nix
Getting the job done for a particular task always calls forth the need for the proper set of tools. In this particular case, the task was to create a single-page static html content-rich site. When I say the site is... read more...
— 23 February, 2012

Custom Mission Control Keyboard Shortcuts in OS X nix
One aspect of Mission Control in OS X Lion I found irritating was similar to the problem I had with Spaces on Leopard and Snow Leopard: customizing the shortcut keys to whatever I wanted. For a while, I had been... read more...
— 16 February, 2012

Stop Rearranging My Spaces, OS X! blog
One of the most aggravating things I’ve had to put up with in Lion so far since I started using it a month back probably has to be the revamped concept of spaces. Being a huge linux nerd, I jumped... read more...
— 09 February, 2012

Editing An Incorrect Commit Message In Git code
To fix an incorrect commit message to the head of a repository use the following command: git commit --amend This will allow you to enter a new message for the previous commit. From stack overflow: Used to amend the tip... read more...
— 08 February, 2012

MySQL and Rake - Library Not Loaded code mysql
When trying to run a Rakefile that I created under a linux environment on OS X for the first time I ran into this message: dlopen(/Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle Reason: image not found - /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle... read more...
— 03 February, 2012

Managing Images with Jekyll code
I’ve only been using Jekyll for about a week now and I can already see how managing images for each post could be an issue. I figure, I can’t have just one image/ directory and dump everything in there because... read more...
— 31 January, 2012

Unknown Column Display Price Group 0 In Field List code
Today while trying to apply my catalog price rules I came across the following message: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' in 'field list' After searching google I found out that this can be fixed by rebuilding the... read more...
— 30 January, 2012

Terminal.app: Highlight Full File Path on Double Click (OS X) nix
One of my biggest complaints about the terminal in OS X—vs. gnome-terminal in the linux world, and possibly a few other terms—is that when I am using git or svn and I want to add or commit only one file... read more...
— 30 January, 2012

Tab Settings Based On Filetype vim
This one is a widely known feature of vim, as it should be for any other editor out there. Here’s a brief example on how to set your tab spacing settings depending on the filetype in vim. Add the following... read more...
— 30 January, 2012

A Better Solution for Less.css vim
Recently I’ve discovered the joys of working with less.css (not to be confused with the less framework, which is also related to CSS). I think the one thing that turned me on to the idea was the Less.app GUI application... read more...
— 26 January, 2012

Excel vs. CSV blog
I came across an interesting bug today with Microsoft Excel 2012. Historically, Excel has had this lovely issue of not being able to handle importing CSV data when there is an endline character in the middle of a field. So... read more...
— 25 January, 2012

Disabling A Key On Your Keyboard nix
The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 that I use at work has this lovely extra backspace button that I always seem to hit by mistake against the bottom side of the desk when using the keyboard on my lap, which... read more...
— 24 January, 2012

Working With Comma Separated Lists In Mysql code mysql
I was asked recently to provide a feed from Magento which would provide a list of all active SKUs, with product names, descriptions, urls and a comma separated list of categories by name. I assembled a query in MySQL. I... read more...
— 23 January, 2012

Mouse and Keyboard - Simple Sharing with Synergy nix
When working with multiple computers it can be a pain to have to interface with multiple inputs such as keyboards, mice, etc. Not only does it get confusing from time to time, but it’s just plain annoying. Especially when there... read more...
— 23 January, 2012

otaku-elite meets jekyll blog
After not having the desire to post content to this site for a very long time I decided it was time to take action. But how? And what was the problem in the first place? The Problem I needed a... read more...
— 21 January, 2012

/etc/hosts.ac? what the duck is that? vim
Recently at my job I’ve started doing some work on a mac (yay!) which means I now get to use some of the fun extra mac tools that I don’t have available on linux, but it also means having some... read more...
— 21 January, 2012