To anticipate and prevent
The other day a family member emailed me and essentially asked me “How do you make a mobile app?”. I could have written back “Write code, publish it”, but that would have been the smart ass remark. It’s not that I don’t love to be a smart ass, but I presumed they wanted a real…
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By now you’ve come around to accept that Git Is The Answer. You are a smart cookie and you’ve realized that GitHub Is The Answer (to Git). So you start creating GitHub repos for anything and everything (like me). It’s easy to create a new Git repo under Linux because GitHub tells you how. It’s…
Earlier this year I engineered a move of email services from Exchange to Google Apps. Any change of email provider can be quite tricky, but thankfully Google provides a tool to assist in the migration. That tool is “Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange” (GAMME). When I ran through this process I learned a lot…
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So the “The new iPad” or the “iPad 3” (depending on your preference, mine is for the latter) has been out for a couple weeks now. As is my custom, I got my hands on one (16 GB 4G Verizon) and took it for a test drive. Since the iPad 3 really has only a…
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If you’re a flight sim junky you probably remember the Flight Simulator series by Microsoft, which ended at Flight Simulator X about 10 years ago. Well I just happened to be messing around on Steam and I saw an advertisement for “Microsoft Flight” which was newly released. Now, being a flight sim junky, I immediately…
Recently, I was asked to enable mod_rewrite for Apache on our webservers, which are controlled by the sexy puppet master server. I did a quick google to see if anyone had any recipes published. On the puppet wiki there is a recipe for Apache on Etch, but their module portion installs Apache modules. In the…