iCal Holiday Calendar

Cool, I just found this nifty little thing that you can subscribe to in iCal, and it will show all the US Holidays. I’m pretty sure it’ll work even for those holidays that change every year.

iCal US Holidays

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upload_max_filesize PHP/Apache upload of large files

You may encounter a constraint when trying to upload files to your website. You may exceed the allowed upload size. You can fix this by modifying your .htaccess file to allow PHP to handle files larger than the default 2 MB.

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Leopard Directory.app - bad stuff, bad stuff

Today I had the pleasure of trying out Mac OS X Leopard Server’s awesome new application, Directory. All I wanted to do is setup some shared addresses so everyone in my company can have access to it. Simple. Address Book used to allow this, but it’s been replaced with Directory. I’ve had nothing but bad luck, inconsistent errors, and conclusively, a shotty system.

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TextMate mate error: An uncaught exception was raised

So, I’ve been using this sweet mouse for a few months, the Logitech MX Revolution. And I’ve been using TextMate for at least a year or two. Well, today, I was in my terminal window, and I wanted to open a few files in TextMate. So I typed my usual command:

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Simple Password Protection for your website page

Quite often you’ll need to password protect a web page. This can easily become difficult if you need to authenticate users that belong to groups or roles. But for just a quick password protected page, you can use .htaccess and Apache’s authentication.

You’ll need ssh or ftp access, and your server must be configured to allow .htaccess overrides.

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Very Nice Black Leopard Terminal Theme

Tom sent this sweet Leopard Terminal theme over to me. It’s really nice!! I’ve been using a black terminal theme for years, and just before I got this working, I was using size 14 Monaco font, anti-aliased, just for readability.

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PHP displays a blank white page

Often times during development, a PHP page will suddenly display a blank white page. For those of you who don’t know this, it can be very helpful to toggle error display to allow you to view why PHP is showing nothing.
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Posting blog entries to WordPress using TextMate

I recently became aware of two awesome things:

  • Posting to my blog with TextMate
  • Using Markdown for generating HTML

These two things have very quickly changed my coding life. I can now create more code, more quickly, and more efficiently. Also I can use my favorite text editor to post directly to my blog via XML-RPC.
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