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• Locally Running Multiple Rails Apps on OS X There’s a couple of place describing how to support multiple Rails apps locally. They were either unavailable or way more complicated than I’d like (the HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine at the RubyonRails wiki was both). Here’s how I was able to get multiple Rails apps running under Apache on OS X 10.4 Tiger. Created 2 Rails apps; AppOne and
• Introducing Tag Maker for MarsEdit I’m a big fan of MarsEdit, I use it for all my weblog posting. The other day, I was wondering about making any arbitrary text a Technorati Tag. The result was the Tag Maker Applescript for MarsEdit. It takes any selected text and appends a ‘(t)’ to it linking to the corresponding tag at Technorati,
• Some Powerbook Keys Not Working Oddest thing. I pulled the PowerBook out the laptop bag and a handful of keys stopped responding. I’ve opened up the Keyboard Viewer to confirm. Here’s the list thus far: return & enter (came back after restart) Tilde Caps Lock F12 (initiates my Dashboard) Disc eject Left square bracket Arrow up Arrow right I plugged in the USB keyboard from the eMac and that
• Setting up a Web Development Environment in Tiger This message means the upgrade is complete. Last week I started the upgrade Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” around the house. To my pleasant surprise, it went extremely smoothly. The most tedious and frustrating part was waiting for my newly enclosed external hard drive to copy tens of gigs of files back and forth for
• How the iPhone Unexpectedly Impressed Me I stopped by the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon to diagnose 2 recurring problems with my year old MacBook Pro; 6 month old battery barely holds a charge, and bottom quarter of the LCD screen is all multi-colored stripes - completely unusable. It’s just a few weeks outside of it’s one-year warranty, again proving to