• Feb 16, 2008

    Humor in the fine print

    I was surfing around and came upon Credit Karma via a link from SlickDeals. While I have no interest in the service, I was reading their FAQ and got a good laugh. In the FAQ titled "Is this safe?", they have as the last line:

    Our office is protected by a 30lb beagle.

    Funny. I wonder how many people actually read that.

  • Feb 14, 2008

    Simple Google to Mac syncing

    I've been longing to easily sync my calendar with Google so that my wife and I can keep our calendars in order. I just started using BusySync from BusyMac. Previously I was using another product, but lately it just seemed to take hours to sync and it bogged down my system. I've known the BusyMac folks for years and they used to write Palm software. So far, it works extremely well. Make a change on either side and within 5 minutes, the other side gets the update. It is fast and efficient. Nice job!

  • Feb 14, 2008

    CoverFlow view in ReceiptWallet is now complete!

    My last piece in the CoverFlow view in ReceiptWallet was to add a horizontal scrollbar. This is much easier said than done. So I managed to create my own NSControl and have it act like a scrollbar. It might be a little hard to tell in this screenshot, but look at the bottom of the view and look at the scrollbar. Coo!

    ReceiptWalletScreenSnapz002.png

    After a little more testing, ReceiptWallet 1.6.0 will be ready to go!

  • Feb 11, 2008

    Quick script to update WordPress

    I love using WordPress for this blog and that it keeps getting updates. The only problem is that installing the updates isn't as simple as unzipping the archive and double clicking. Every time there is an update, I curse it as I have to re-read the instructions every time. Well, I finally decided to create a simple script to handle all this for me. The scripts assumes you have a backup of your database (I do this nightly, so that isn't a problem) and that you've disabled all your plugins or are willing to risk things breaking. Old of my uploads, themes, and plugins live in wp-content and I don't use multiple languages, so my script just seems to work. I'm sure someone has a better way or will point out a mistake. In any case, it was easy to put together and appears to work. Yeah, one command updates!

    #!/bin/bash
cd /var/www
rm -rf /var/www/blog.tgz
tar -czvf blog.tgz blog.gruby.com
rm -rf /var/www/wordpress*.tar.gz
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
rm -rf /var/www/wordpress
tar -xvzf wordpress*.tar.gz
cp /var/www/blog.gruby.com/wp-config.php /var/www/wordpress/
cp -ur /var/www/blog.gruby.com/wp-content /var/www/wordpress/
cp /var/www/blog.gruby.com/.htaccess /var/www/wordpress/
chown -R apache.apache /var/www/wordpress/
rm -rf /var/www/blog.gruby.com.old
mv /var/www/blog.gruby.com /var/www/blog.gruby.com.old
mv /var/www/wordpress /var/www/blog.gruby.com
rm -rf /var/www/wordpress*.tar.gz