OS X Lion Time Machine backup to Debian
When OS X Lion was released I was eager to try out the updated FileVault and Time Machine features. Moving from an encrypted home directory to true full-disk encryption was a dream. I was also quite excited to find out if the new implementation of FileVault would work well with Time Machine. I’d previously set up a Time Machine volume on my Debian file-server by installing netatalk and...
Read MoreMoving your blog off Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site
I have a client who absolutely loves WordPress, but one of her long-time blogs has been hosted at Blogger since the dawn of time. Luckily, thanks to some persistence and a handy WordPress plugin, she’s now happily blogging with WordPress. ...
Read MoreUser Friendly Design: Attachment Icons
Last October I helped launch www.psylabstudios.com, an online store for my friend Lars so he can hawk merch for his band Oneiroid Psychosis. This was my first foray into ecommerce, one that went pretty smoothly all things considered. We couldn’t use SSL, so we ended up using the Google Checkout API. I wrote a custom shopping cart for the site using the Google Checkout PHP...
Read MoreGenerating useful error pages with Pound
We use Pound as a reverse-proxy and loud-balancing frontend to our web cluster here in the office. Today we had some NAT problems with our proxy server and ended up with some server downtime. Pound defaults to outputting a cryptic error message when it can’t reach a valid host: The service is not available. Please try again later. This isn’t very helpful to clients who probably have...
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