Collecting Network Information via the OS X Terminal
Using the Windows “command line” (DOS, or in XP “not DOS”), you can get a nicely formated printout of your Network configuration by typing the following command.
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BBEdit PHP Function-Parameter Auto-Complete
A new PHP tool for those discriminating BBEdit users out there.
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In addition to fixing the links in the RSS feed yesterday, I also went back and properly capitalized all my titles. Unlike, say, the New York Times or AP I don’t have a house style, but consistency is important.
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Links in the RSS feed for alanstorm.com have been fixed. Sorry about that, the QA department has been sacked.
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My web and email host has been upgrading their junk email filtering offerings and the difference is nothing short of phenomenal.
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If there’s a bash Microsoft party I’ll be there with bells on, but that won’t stop me from loving Excel. This, of course, is less to do with Excel and more to do with the concept of computer spread sheets, but
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I finally got around to integrating the excelent “SmartyPants” plug-in with this website. Since I use a PHP CMS I hacked together myself, i wrote a little wrapper class for the perl script. If you’re into that kind of thing, the code
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Google recently introducted another little browser toolbar widget called Web Accelerator. When you go to a page, the Web Accelerator will look at links on the page and, under certain conditions, start downloading the linked pages automatically in the background. Then, if you click
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