Tim Hoolihan

It is what it sounds like, a resource for information about a ton of text editors…

Microsoft is end-of-lifing XP next year in January.  Support will last a little longer.  When will the activation process stop working?

I have a set number of programs that I usually want to start when my macbook pro boots up. But sometimes I want to boot in a hurry and all the startup items bother me. I came up with a solution I thought I’d pass on. I load Aquamacs automatically, as I use it for [...]

The following gets you the full path… pwd example: /home/tim/my_project What if you just want my_project? This comes in handy when writing backup scripts for coding directories. pwd | sed ‘s/.*\///g’

I saw something crazy this morning. And it lead me down an interesting train of thought. First, I thought I’d detail the event. Later, I’ll post on the thought train. I pulled up to the pump to fill up my car for a cool $36, and I notice a woman at another pump smoking while [...]

Never compare the Bengals with the Steelers.  It pops veins in my head… http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/03/16/sports/steelers/doc47ddede3232a3317711311.txt

Tired of lazy service from your cable company?  I was.  No NFL Network, no Big Ten Network, and poor boxes and software. I switched to U-Verse (AT&T) and really like it.  Pricing is in the range of cable with 3 boxes in the house ($5 per add).  The internet speeds are good, you can remotely [...]

WordPress supports posting via email. Combine with an iPhone and mobile blogging would be pretty easy.

The paginate function was removed from core rails in 2.0.  No problem since my server ran an earlier version of rails. Until Bluehost updated rails without telling me. Easy enough to fix. In your project type: script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/classic_pagination Then tar up your vendor folder and move it to the server, or use a better [...]

If you’re having problems with the standard OS X install of ruby, check out http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx/.