Category Archives: Software
Beep My Stuff enters public Beta
After a rather long period in closed beta I’ve opened Beep My Stuff to a public beta. Beep My Stuff is a web site that makes it FREE and easy to create an online library of your Books, Movies, Video Games and Music. Check it out, all feedback is much appreciated. It’s built with Turbogears, [...]
Mac OSX: starting postgres on boot
Every bloody operating system has it’s own unique way of starting things at boot time. Today I bothered to learn how OS X does it. Here’s how I got PostgreSQL to start when my machine is turned on: What gets started is handled by a program called SystemStarter. On boot it looks through /Library/StartupItems for [...]
Password, it’s just not obvious to normal people
As a programmer and all round geek I spend a lot of my time thinking about user interfaces for normal people. This is probably the hardest aspect to programming. Putting yourself in the place of a normal user is, basically, impossible but every programmer/ui designer attempts to do this EVERY day. Why am I talking [...]
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