Category Archives: code

Recovering Address Book and iCal calendars from a backup drive

After a clean up-stall of Snow Leopard, all seems well… but I realize I neglected to create easily importable backups of my address book and calendars. Not a problem – I had backed u......

Radiant Heroku… getting your Radiant App live on Heroku in about 10 minutes.

I’ve discovered various degrees of up-to-datedness and accuracy in some of the tutorials out there for deploying an app built on Radiant CMS to Heroku, so here’s one that is valid fo......

Restart Apache without restarting OS X

1sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart In case you need to modify your httpd.conf on your local system and restart apache, but you can’t bear the thought of 20 seconds downtime when you could b......

Creating a map-based iPhone app

The day word went out that OS 3.0 would finally include access to the google MapKit was the tipping point that finally got me to shell out the $99 to join the iPhone developer program. Unfortun......

Working with Sample Code: Rename your project in Xcode 3.x

When I’m learning how to code in a new language, I like to start off some sample code that I know works, then mutilate it until it bears no resemblance to what the original developer came ......