http://jamesmallen.net Technology Specialist Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:08:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alas, I find myself having to do some work on a Windows machine. I also find myself needing some additional PEAR libraries that don't come pre-installed as part of XAMPP. I found the below commands in a comment at http://www.tohir.co.za/2006/07/pear-on-xampp-windows.html, and have taken the liberty to "re-translate" them. These instructions will ... http://jamesmallen.net/2008/10/28/pear-with-xampp-on-windows/ I recently "refreshed" my Mac - I'd accumulated a fair amount of cruft in my attempts to install alternate versions of libraries, and decided that a fresh install of things would clear things up. I kept my wife's user profile intact, since she hadn't done anything funny in her user ... http://jamesmallen.net/2008/09/28/dynamic-vhosts-with-xampp-on-os-x-with-special-dns-sauce/ I've been doing a significant amount of video work lately. This led to my recent purchase of Final Cut Express (It is so wonderful having a brother-in-law who's an Apple Store employee), and with it many changes to my typical workflow. I'm used to using Sony's Vegas Studio product for ... http://jamesmallen.net/2008/04/23/final-cut-express-hates-12-bit-audio/ GPS is a church in Cleveland Heights. The site uses WordPress to combine several different types of posts, including blog posts and videos. In order to encourage community interaction, it also features a browser-based chat box. http://www.gpsheights.org/ http://jamesmallen.net/2008/04/14/gps/ PhoneMic is a Widget that lets you use your phone to record sound files that automatically get saved to your computer. It was commissioned by MyVox as a demonstration of using their API in a Konfabulator Widget. http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/phonemic http://jamesmallen.net/2008/02/29/phonemic-widget/ Cristina Powell is an artist who has overcome amazing odds to get her art out there to the world. http://www.abrighterwaycristina.com/ http://jamesmallen.net/2008/02/14/cristina-powell-a-brighter-way/ I use Subversion with my own, personal projects, and about a year ago I started using it to track changes on clients' existing sites (No, I didn't want THAT!). On my Windows dev machine, I used TortoiseSVN over an svn+ssh connection. While I don't dislike the command line/terminal, I liked ... http://jamesmallen.net/2007/11/11/subversion-on-os-x-with-scplugin-and-sshsvn/ A little while ago, there was some hype on the interwebs about a "newer version" of Gmail coming. Well, it looks like that "newer version" might be here... I didn't see any mention of this on any recent blogs, so I'm guessing they're rolling it out slowly? In any case, you ... http://jamesmallen.net/2007/10/29/gmail-newer-version/ As sort of a continuation to my post On Migrations, I thought I'd post about the first piece of replacement software that I've found. It's called Actiontastic, and it's geared toward using the Getting Things Done approach to productivity/time management. I myself have not read David Allen's book on the subject, ... http://jamesmallen.net/2007/10/28/getting-things-done-actiontastically/ A variety of factors combined to cause my wife and I to decide to purchase a new computer about a month ago. After much deliberation, we decided to get a Mac. After about two seconds in our local Apple Store, I was convinced of getting a 24-inch iMac.As a web ... http://jamesmallen.net/2007/10/24/on-migrations-part-1/