On my previous Macbook Pro I'd used Ethereal and I don't remember having many issues with it as I was able to run it as sudo so that I had privileges for sniffing packets. Since then Ethereal has become Wireshark and it's now available with a nice appication wrapper as…
Facebook got to the point a few months back of being more annoying than useful. Friends had started to use Facebook as a way to contact me instead of using plain old-fashioned email and I was starting to find the time I spent on there never actually achieved anything worthwhile.…
Once I started using leopard's new shiny terminal I noticed some problems with the terminal whenever I was using the cursor keys to access items in the memory. What happens is the lines of history appear to start halfway through a previous line of history like so: For a while…
John Gruber recently published a perl script to convert strings into title case avoiding capitalizing small words based on rules from the New York Times Manual of style as well as catering for several special cases. Before porting the perl script I tried out Python's inbuilt title string method to…
Got a spare mac battery? I've often wondered why up until now no-one's produced a standalone charger so that you can charge batteries without having to plug them into the mac. Fortunately Fastmac.com have produced a standalone charger that allows you to do just that. and it's compatible with…
Colleague Alex Lee has created a nice stencil for omingraffle with the Django Admin UI components, perfect for wireframing customised admin screens. For more details and to download the stencil see Alex's Blog csensedesign.co.uk…
The first DJUGL (Django Users Group London) Meetup is happening on the 19th May at GCAP HQ in Leicester square at 7pm. I'll be presenting "Django from a developers point of view" where I'll be talking about my thoughts on what makes Django a good framework choice. It's…
The only issue with this is deciding who gets the space-bar! By Michael Sholk Design via I love typography…