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"This is not ‘Nam, this is software development; there are rules."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:19:26 -0800

“This is not ‘Nam, this is software development; there are rules.”

- Ryan Dunn

"I honor the place where your hopes and dreams become projected onto my unannounced products and..."

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:25:12 -0800

“I honor the place where your hopes and dreams become projected onto my unannounced products and merge, ultimately, with my personal net worth.”

- Fake Steve Jobs

We built a Tumblr-based website for the band Lovebird from...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:12:26 -0800

We built a Tumblr-based website for the band Lovebird from Ventura, CA. The Tumblr management backend allows them to upload photos, music, videos, etc. and publishes each post to their RSS feed.

DigitalSound Productions have expanded their services to the...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:21:00 -0800

DigitalSound Productions have expanded their services to the weddings industry. They needed a simple and elegant site to reflect their designs, and a backend solution for managing the images featured on the page.

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:31:12 -0700

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

- Charles Mingus

I really wish that Apple would include a Search feature in the...

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:12:27 -0700

I really wish that Apple would include a Search feature in the iPhone’s Mail app.

iPodDisk

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:24:53 -0700

iPodDisk:

iPodDisk is a tool designed to make it easy and intuitive to copy music from your iPod.

Growl

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:22:30 -0700

Growl:

Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen.

HandBrake

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:21:51 -0700

HandBrake:

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

AppTrap

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:19:00 -0700

AppTrap:

The uninstaller feature Apple forgot.

MacFUSE

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:17:59 -0700

MacFUSE:

MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems.

Flip4Mac

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:16:51 -0700

Flip4Mac:

Play Windows Media files in your QuickTime Player.

Perian

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:14:00 -0700

Perian:

The swiss-army knife for Quicktime.

Iconfinder.net

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:33:05 -0800

Iconfinder.net:

This site is an excellent source for application icons.

How To Automatically Open a VPN Connection in Windows XP

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:25:00 -0800

Once you’ve created the VPN connection in My Network Places, download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools from Microsoft. Although it doesn’t mention XP compatibility, it will work. The next step is to create a batch file with the following command:

rasdial connection username password

So for example, when your connection is named Office, your username is jdoe and your password is kittencalendar:

rasdial “Office” “jdoe” “kittencalendar”

Save the file as C:\WINDOWS\system32\autoexnt.bat. Also copy the following files from C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\ into the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder:

autoexnt.exe
instexnt.exe
servmess.dll

Then from the command line, run the following command:

instexnt install

Restart your machine, and after logging in, your VPN connection should be connected automatically. The original documentation on this process can be found here.

A custom built web portal for DigitalSound Production...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:52:19 -0800

A custom built web portal for DigitalSound Production Services that provides inventory availability, requests and approvals for renting production equipment to their clients.

How To Expand (or Contract) a VMWare Fusion Virtual Disk

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:38:25 -0800

I use VMWare Fusion exclusively for my .NET programming environment ever since I got my first MacBook a couple years back. I tend to be not so generous when it comes to the disk space that I allocate to my guest OS, so I’ve had to perform the following process to expand my virtual disks quite a few times. The first step is simple enough, in the Settings for the virtual machine, click the Hard Disks option and drag the slider to expand/contract the size virtual disk. The next step is not so simple, but far from difficult.

Download the GParted Live CD disk image from SourceForge and attach it to the virtual machine. To do this, go to the Settings, click the CDs & DVDs option and under “Use disk image”, select the gparted-live-0.4.1-2.iso file that you just downloaded. Be sure to check the “Connected” checkbox at the top of this view so that the virtual machine will recognize it when you start it up.

Unfortunately by default the BIOS will not attempt to boot from the CD, and it’s practically impossible to hit F2 before the guest OS initializes, so the “easiest” way to resolve this is to modify the .vmx file of your virtual disk. To get to this file, right-click on the virtual disk, select “Show Package Contents”, and using TextEdit add the following line to the .vmx file:

bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”

Don’t copy and paste this, because the difference in text format will cause a dictionary error in your virtual disk and it won’t boot up. Fire up the virtual machine and when the BIOS appears, modify the boot order so that the CD has priority and reboot. If everything is working correctly, the GParted Live application should start up.

Just select all of the defaults for the boot, keymap, language and application settings. Odds are that you’ll have trouble with the mouse pointer lining up with the GParted interface, so I just stick to using the keyboard shortcuts. Select the disk partition of the guest OS and click the “Resize/Move” button, change the “New Size (MiB)” field to the desired size, click “Resize/Move”, then click “Apply”. When the resize process completes, shut down the virtual machine.

Go back to the CDs and DVDs section of the Settings for the virtual machine and uncheck the “Connected” checkbox. Now when you login to your guest OS, you’ll be greeted by more (or less) disk space.

Convert Quarter to Month

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:13:05 -0800

I’ve been having to do this a lot lately, and so rather than creating a case statement every time I set out to create an equation to handle the conversion. Since I never got past Intermediate Algebra, it took a lot longer than it probably should have, but I’m still fairly impressed with myself:

m = q + (q * 2) - 2

… and the chalkboard, or trinomial version (thanks Greg):

m = q + 2q - 2

… and finally, the VB function:

Function QuarterMonth(ByVal q As Integer) As Integer
Dim m As Integer
m = q + (q * 2) -2
Return m
End Function

"We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this..."

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:46:17 -0800

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”

- Steve Jobs

A simple one-page portal site for a local retail shop providing...

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:57:00 -0700

A simple one-page portal site for a local retail shop providing easy access to their eBay store, MySpace profile and their location on Google Maps.