I recently did the upgrade to Snow Leopard on my MBP. To my dismay, Quicksilver no longer worked. It terminated immediately after launch. I found the the Beta 56a7 on here. I also had to remove Plugins.plist and the Plugins folder from ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver. I am ecstatic to report that Quicksilver is up and running […]
Read MoreI recently upgraded to MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 2 (for the debugging capability, more on that later) on my Mac. When I opened a Moonlight solution and tried to run it, I got the following error: Could not find respack The project had lost its references to System.Windows and System.Windows.Browser. The cause turned out to be […]
Read MoreSometimes people get tripped up by this – at the least, its a little confusing. A brief history lesson: First there was Windows Server 2003. And then in 2005, Microsoft released something of a super-service-pack with new functionality, patches, and other stuff. It was much more than a regular service pack, full of optional components […]
Read MoreProblem: You need text to dynamically add elipses, "…", to the end of a sentence. The difficulty is how do you detect the actual length of the string. All characters are not created the same. Ten i?s != ten m?s. Solution: Robby Ingebretsen at NerdPlusArt.com (and of Kaxaml fame) has a dynamic control that does […]
Read More?The taste of Bacon is the taste of Freedom.? — unknown I hope you read that in Leonard Nimoy?s voice, from his work on Civilization IV. ?Our scientists have unlocked the secrets of Bacon! Now we can cook bacon!? So after attempting to cook bacon in carbon dioxide, the next logical step was to […]
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were to cook bacon in an oxygen-poor environment? Would the bacon taste any different for it? Is oxygen a requirement for good bacon? Let?s say you wanted to build a robot to cook bacon, unattended. You don?t want this robot to burn the house down, as that would be less […]
Read MoreI have had a Gmail account for a long time at tony.rasa from Gmail. Since I moved everything over to a Google Apps Domain a while back, I don’t use the Gmail account anymore – but I still have a forwarding rule sending any stray messages to my “new” domain. It turns out that my […]
Read MoreProblem: You run “svn update” on a directory where you *know* there are new folders. Svn tells you “At revision X” where X = whatever the head revision is (i.e., “everything’s up to date!”) – but that new folder didn’t show up. This is because the default is for svn to update folders down to […]
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