November, 2004

  1. SVN Zapper

    With some big time help from Adam Tow, I finally put together the AppleScript droplet I wanted for removing ‘.svn’ directories. Here it is (LGPL): Download: SVN Zapper (3.2 KB)

  2. Heading Home

    The New York trip was a very fun experience, but I’m quite worn out and glad to be heading back to sleepy Denver. jetBlue has free wireless at JFK. 🙂

  3. Bluetooth is cool

    I finally got a chance to see first-hand how cool Bluetooth is. My cohorts here each have Bluetooth enabled cell phones and I borrowed a connection to steal some bandwidth in a meeting today. I also used it to send a few files over, PowerBook to PowerBook. It appears that the Sony Ericsson T608 is…

  4. New York Minutes

    Quick notes I jotted down (in my Treo) on my way to, and during my first day in the Big Apple… Is that cop pulling out after me? Whew, only a warning ticket – I almost don’t mind the delay. 🙂 Man, I feel sorry for this guy at the checkin counter. Apparently changing his…

  5. Converting to UTF-8

    One of the things I still plan to do in the upcoming Tasks Pro™ and Tasks releases is change the default character set encoding (for English) from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. The trick is how best to handle this for existing customers. Here are the options I’m looking at: I’ll still have an ISO-8859-1 version of…

  6. These little town blues…

    I’m heading out on tonight’s red-eye to New York (Manhattan) for the next three days, thanks to the contract gig. This is my first trip to NY, anyone have any recommendations for must-see attactions while I’m there?

  7. Tasks Pro™ 1.5 beta 3

    I’ve released Tasks Pro™ 1.5 beta 3. This has a few bug fixes, but the main change is in the documentation. I’ve added a number of new pages, updated old pages to account for new features and updated a number of outdated screenshots. I think I’m about halfway done updating the documentation. Here are the…

  8. Around the web

    Doonesbury 2004-11-01 Canon EOS-20D Review: Digital Photography Review – I’d have been tempted if they hadn’t changed the battery grip too. US Presidential Election, 2004 Message to the world dummy.gif Salon.com News | The shape of a second term Final thoughts on the US elections Not Getting It Awaiting Moderation RSS hack for WordPress TextMate:…

  9. Documentation Progress

    I’ve already created 25 modules, added 10 screenshots and reshot 15 others for the Tasks Pro™ 1.5 documentation. I don’t feel like I’m even halfway there yet. Ugh. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.

  10. Options and Services

    I’ve been planning to switch to DirecTV with TiVo from our current Dish Network service, mainly because of the TiVo vs. the Dish Network DVR. When I called Dish to find out my options, I also found out that the Dish DVR could work better if we use it slightly differently. The Dish DVR has…

  11. Workaround for IE/SSL Problem

    If you’re having trouble downloading files (using passthrough scripts) in IE over SSL, the fix is to turn off cache headers. To do this in Apache: <Files filename.php> Header unset Pragma Header unset Cache-Control </Files>

  12. Searching for PHP Doc System

    I’d like to add search capabilities to PHP Doc System output when it’s running on a web server. I also like being able to generate flat files for distribution (with a database backend). Anyone have any bright ideas? Maybe an integration with a search project of sorts? Anyone want to tackle said integration? This post…

  13. Viewing Headers Received

    Can anyone recommend a browser or utility (client or server) that will show what headers were sent by the web server during a page request? I’ve got a bug report in the Use Tasks forums that looks like a M$ bug. The workaround assumes that certain headers are being sent and I’d like to try…