Matt Langtree

Over the last few months, the Boston Globe have been collecting images from big economy news stories of people ‘working’, and have posted a kaleidoscope of photos. The quantity and size of some of these factories, and the products they produce, are quite breathtaking!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html

Photo Source: Boston Globe

Show hidden Files in Finder

Web Programmers need access to .htaccess files and occasionally other dot files/folders. Here is a way that you can make Finder (and your Desktop) show all files.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder


Remove SVN folders from a website

The command is broken into two parts, firstly we get a list of paths for the files to be deleted:

find . -name ".svn"

Once we are happy that the result from the first command worked correctly, we then attach the delete part of the command:
find . -name ".svn" | xargs rm -r

If the files are locked or if they aren’t owned by the user running the command, try the same line but with sudo attached to the second part of the command:
find . -name ".svn" | xargs sudo rm -rf

Setting up Transmit

Transmit: Show Invisible Files

Most web developers want to be able to upload .htaccess files in Transmit as part of their web development workflow. Choose Show Invisible Files from the view menu in the main application window.

Queued transfers (if your server supports it) are a lot faster than single file transfers. By default the Queue is turned off in Transmit. To turn on Queueing, go into the Preferences menu and choose the Transfers tab. Set the Maximum queue connections value to a sensible number (2-4).

Transmit: Turn on Queue mode.

Removing those pesky dot-underscore ( e.g - ‘._index.php’) files

These files can really cripple your mac subversion experience, but there is an easy fix for this annoying issue. Run the following command in Terminal:

mate .subversion/config
and look for the global-ignores line in the config file. Uncomment the line if necessary and replace it with the following list.
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ .#* .DS_Store ._* *.log *.bak

You will need to restart Versions.app for the changes to take effect.

Safari Debug Menu

One of the most “can’t live without” features of web development in Safari is the Debug menu.

You can turn it on by typing the following command into Terminal.app.

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Then, restart Safari or WebKit and enjoy!

I just installed the new Safari 4 Public Beta after reading about it on apple.com. I, like many users have run into the issue where both Safari and Mail.app will quit momentarily after launching it.

To fix Safari:

Uninstall Glims plugin. This can be done by removing Glims from the following paths:

/Library/InputManagers/Glims
/Library/Application Support/Glims

Source: MacHangOut

To fix Mail.app:

Even though I didn’t have it enabled, growlMail was still breaking Mail.app. This can be fixed by removing GrowlMail from the following paths:

/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/

On a side note, I also removed Google Gears for Safari as I though this may be causing the issue aswell. And just like one of the earlier Safari 4 Developer Betas, TinyMce also fails to work correctly.

UPDATE: Upgraded to the latest Webkit Nightly. TinyMCE is working fine.

One of my addictions recently has been playing Traveller’s IQ (from travelpod.com). Countless hours of my life have been spent enriching my knowledge of world geography. Apparently there is a facebook version of this game also, where you can pit it against your friends from around the world.

Source: BV

This video is for all the “Homie’s”
Warning: Explicit Language. Seriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU 

Source: MMcN

A talented water-colour artist, Lawrence Yang [blowatlife.blogspot] recently posted a response to the new Pepsi logo design. The design has had an outrageous amount of support from the interweb. Reposted here for your consideration: 

source: suckatlife.com

Sites that require a file upload to occur as the main functionality, are a little restricted on the iPhone. The folks at myfonts.com have circumvented this by offering an iPhone app that allows you to upload photos to their font-matching service (WhatTheFont) from either your iPhone camera, or from existing images in your iPhone Photo Gallery. 

The WhatTheFont website is one of the most useful tools by far, in any graphic designers/web developers toolkit. Next time you are away from your Mac/PC and you see a radical/groovy/cute/funky/quirky or modern font on a poster or a menu, just whip out your iPhone and snap a pic and get a font match.

*I tried this on my jail-broken version 2.0 firmware  iPhone with no luck, although it is most likely that this is because I’m not running firmware version 2.2.1 (current at time of writing).