Most developers spend their first day on a new computer setting up their develoment environment. If you are a ruby developer, this article should help you get started quickly. I’m assuming you are starting with a clean install of Mac OS X Lion. A similar environment could be created off of the same or similar [...]
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I’ve been frustrated with the limited cursor movement out of the box in Mac OS X Terminal for years. Usually I’m always working in a linux server session so it never bothered me enough to figure it out. But I finally got sick enough to figure out the keyboard mappings to make Terminal better. Specifically [...]
Unfortunately we knew that iOS 4.3 wouldn’t end up shipping with those nifty four- and five-finger gestures, but what we didn’t know was how easy it’d be to enable them. That’s right, getting even more touchy-feely with your brand new iPad 2 is just a few clicks and a 4.5GB download away — if you’ve [...]
Once we started using Amazon S3 for file storage at Mailprotector, we were faced with the need to clean up stale files that were no longer needed. Since we only keep quarantined spam and viruses for a sliding window (currently 14 days), we have a need to daily clean up millions of files that are [...]
Occasionally, the Spotlight search results will not show files or applications that they used to show or will stop working altogether. Sometimes a simple reboot will fix the problem but in case that doesn’t work, here are the steps to clear out your Spotlight index and force it to reindex your file system. Delete the [...]