FarmSoft Studios Scratchpad

Apple’s Navigation Change

FarmSoft Studios — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:09:38 +0000

You can sure tell where Apple’s money is coming from, with all the real estate that they are giving the iPod, iPad, iPhone, and iTunes links in the header of their redesigned site.

FarmSoft Studios — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:03:49 +0000

Remind me again why I need a Quad-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro with 6 Gigs of RAM? Oh, that’s right, It’s to run my Flash Applications online. Thanks for the reminder.

Use class with semantics in mind

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:50:32 +0000

“Use class with semantics in mind.”

via Use class with semantics in mind – Quality Web Tips.

PHP on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard throwing errors

FarmSoft Studios — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:04:06 +0000

Snow Leopard now uses PHP 5.3, so there are new rules in the playing field. You can fix them by adding

date.timezone = "America/Anchorage";

in your php.ini file, or if you don’t have access to that, you can add this to your own project:

date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');

Use whatever timezone is appropriate for you, of course. The list is here: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Safari Web Inspector Scrolling Bugs

FarmSoft Studios — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:11:39 +0000

If the inspector is open in docked mode, interaction within the webkit content window – typing text into an input, using a menu, selecting text – causes it to frantically scroll downwards.

via BogoJoker » Improving the Web Inspector.

…Glad I’m not the only one that noticed that behavior!

MySQL and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X, 10.6.x)

FarmSoft Studios — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:19:46 +0000

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, the symlink was lost in /usr/local

cd /usr/local sudo ln -s mysql-5.1.37-osx10.5-x86_64/ mysql
Simply run that in the Terminal, and you should be all set.

Google Waves Best Use Cases – Wave – Lifehacker

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:50:19 +0000

Transportation: Controlling Air Traffic

James is a Traffic Management Coordinator at the Philadelphia International Airport Control Tower. He said:

My job is to reduce departure delays and to maintain an efficient flow of air traffic into and out of the Philadelphia International Airport. Currently we utilize a Google Spreadsheet to share real-time departure and weather issues, airport construction updates, and snow removal operations with the airlines and other interested parties. Im excited at the prospect of being able to embed real-time weather radar gadgets to provide users an up-to-the-minute graphical look at the weather. We currently use the chat feature on Google Spreadsheets but it appears that the more robust communication capabilities in Wave would greatly enhance our communication with the airlines. The ability to review conversations and data will help us to further reduce delays at Philadelphia International Airport. This will result in a savings of time for passengers, reduced fuel and operating costs for the airlines, and fewer complaints from both.

via Google Waves Best Use Cases – Wave – Lifehacker.

All I can say is: wow. ATC on Google Apps? Nice.

Filter Small Files from the ‘du’ Command with Grep

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:48 +0000

Ever wanted to filter out the files that were less than 1GB with the simple ‘du’ (disk usage) command? Simple. Add the -h flag and a little grep magic, and you’re all set:

du -h | grep '[0-9]G'

Detecting a Mobile Phone & Redirecting in PHP

FarmSoft Studios — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:26:59 +0000

A nice article on that process here:
http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/lightweight-device-detection-php

iPhone (OS 3.0) Camera Disappeared

FarmSoft Studios — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:02:55 +0000

So you have your new iPhone^®, sync it up to your corporate Exchange^® server, and go on your merry way. Later that day, you go to take a picture of that adorable pose your daughter is in. “Ha!” you think, “The iPhone has a great camera for times just like this!” You smile as you pull your sleek little device out. Your smile quickly fades as you frantically search in vain for the camera app. You flip violently through the pages of apps, and finally succumb to your stupidity, and search for camera in spotlight. No Go. Your daughter is long gone, and you’re still there trying to figure out what is wrong. You go through every setting, making sure the restrictions are off in the settings panel. Yep, all’s good there… Hmm. As a last ditch effort, you get on the phone, and call your IT manager, asking if there is anything that he knows of to make a camera disappear in your iPhone.
“Oh, yeah,” he says. “I didn’t check the box to allow your camera in Exchange. I’ll be right on that.” “Nice,” you think silently.

Ok, so nice story. But you want to know how to get your camera back. Here’s the lowdown:
I found a solution to the problem.

Exchange 2007 has active sync policies. One of the options is to disallow the camera.

To resolve the problem do the following.

Open Exchange Management Console
Click “Organization Configuration”
Click “Client Access”
On the right you should see your active sync policies. Right click the policy and chose “Properties”
Click the “Device” tab
Check “Allow camera”

You should be all set. For those of you who are NOT connected to an Exchange server, check the restrictions pane under Settings > General > Restrictions