Adobe Touch Apps family | Touchscreen tools | Adobe Creative Cloud

October 3rd, 2011

Design, edit, and elegantly present your work using six new Adobe Touch Apps designed for your tablet.

Adobe Touch Apps family | Touchscreen tools | Adobe Creative Cloud

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Ask Ars: Do I have to use the Mac App Store to reinstall Lion?

October 3rd, 2011

How to create a Lion recovery/install disk on a USB thumbdrive.

Ask Ars: Do I have to use the Mac App Store to reinstall Lion?

Tags: osx mac lion upgrades usb howto recovery install

How I backup my database

September 29th, 2011

I run several WordPress sites on my servers, including this blog, which has content going back over 10 years. While I’m not too worried about backing up all the files (I can always install a fresh copy of WordPress on a new server and be up and running quickly, sans old images and such), my content is quite precious to me.

For a long time, I ran a nightly perl script which dumped my databases into a file, compressed them, then emailed them to my GMail account. And this served me well for several years. Until the size of my database dump grew larger than the 10MB attachment size limit on GMail. So for a while there, while I had local database dumps, I didn’t have offsite backup.

I finally got around to doing something about it.

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TransformJS – 3D and 2D Transforms for jQuery

September 27th, 2011

2D and 3D transforms as regular CSS properties you can set using .css() and animate using .animate()

TransformJS – 3D and 2D Transforms for jQuery

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Text-based Linux Install – Dropbox Wiki

September 24th, 2011

How to install Dropbox on a non-GUI Linux server. Schweet.

Text-based Linux Install – Dropbox Wiki

Tags: dropbox, fuse, filesystems, cloud, storage, linux, ubuntu, fedora, debian

How to Install Dropbox on a Headless Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server – 1000umbrellas.com

September 22nd, 2011

More tips regarding Dropbox on Linux.

How to Install Dropbox on a Headless Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server – 1000umbrellas.com

Tags: dropbox, linux, ubuntu, tips, cloud, storage, fuse, filesystems

Text-based Linux Install – Dropbox Wiki

September 22nd, 2011

How to install Dropbox on a non-GUI Linux server. Schweet.

Text-based Linux Install – Dropbox Wiki

Tags: dropbox, fuse, filesystems, cloud, storage, linux, ubuntu, fedora, debian

Professor, a MongoDB Profile Viewer « late.am

September 22nd, 2011

Web-based query profiling interface for MongoDB.

Professor, a MongoDB Profile Viewer « late.am

Tags: mongodb, profiling, webdev, professor, databases, nosql

sample-wordpress-nginx.conf Sivel.net Paste

September 21st, 2011

Sample nginx/php-fpm config for WordPress

sample-wordpress-nginx.conf Sivel.net Paste

Tags: wordpress, php, phpfpm, nginx, configuration, sivel, webdev, servers

pjscrape: A web-scraping framework written in Javascript, using PhantomJS and jQuery

September 21st, 2011

I’m always interested in various web scraping tools. And I might be able to use this to recover an old site of mine from the WayBack Machine…

pjscrape: A web-scraping framework written in Javascript, using PhantomJS and jQuery

Tags: scraping, webscraping, pjscrape, webdev, javascript, jquery