I feel like I’m falling apart. I got terribly sick last Thursday. I went to sleep feeling fine, but woke up at 6 feeling like I needed to vomit. This came as quite a surprise to me, since I don’t usually get sick, and even when I do get sick, I don’t usually vomit. This [...]

I went up to the Apple store yesterday to check out the new MacBooks. The first thing I noticed was a crowd of people around the table displaying the MacBooks. Every demo unit was occupied, and there were still more people looking over their shoulders. If this is any sort of gauge, the MacBook is [...]

So, we’ve been planning to roll out some database changes for a while here at eNotes. We’ve been dealing with content in a mishmash of ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, and UTF-8 encodings for a while now. It makes sense to standardize on UTF-8, and I wrote some migration scripts to accomplish that. We also wanted to [...]

Some title, eh? The problem is this: When using screen on a remote host in Terminal on OS X, backspace doesn’t work. Highly irritating. Here’s the solution. In the terminal, run:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString xterm
And you’re all set.

After trying for months to get my patches into Net_Dict without success, I have succeeded in taking over maintenance of the package. The new release, which fixes all known issues and brings the package back into compliance with PEAR CS went out on the 8th.
This is a very good thing. Net_Dict is used at eNotes [...]