JJJ's Blog

Category: Software

  • Retina 2x downsampling

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    While working on some 2x retina images for WordPress.com, and the bbPress and WordPress open-source projects, I found an image rendering issue that I haven’t seen documented anywhere yet. Here’s the WordPress core retina ticket, for reference. The first image highlights the difference between the WordPress core 2x icons, and the bbPress 2x icons. Notice how…

  • iTether Download Link

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    If you’re a user of the old iTether app like I am, and you need to re-download the OS X app, here’s the original download url. http://tether.com/i/Tether-iPhone.dmg Took me a while to find it again since they switched to the reverse proxy HTML5 method.

  • Confessions of an Open Source Workaholic

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    Hi, my name is John, and I’m an Open Source Software workaholic. I touched on it a bit in my WPCandy interview, and I thought I’d finish the story here with a few added thoughts. I live in a great neighborhood on the east side of Providence, RI. I work from home, rarely drive my car (ignore the…

  • PHPUnit, MAMP Pro 2.0, Netbeans 7.1, OS X

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    At the time of this writing, MAMP Pro 2.0.5 comes with a corrupted pear.conf file for PHP version 5.3.6, so I had to do some digging to install PHPUnit. You should be able to open up terminal and safely run the following commands to get PHPUnit installed and working correctly: rm /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pear channel-update pear.php.net…

  • Circles

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    There’s a reason why Google chose circles for its new Google + social graph, and it isn’t just because it’s a clever name. If you search Google’s archive of images for the phrase “social graph” every single relevant image that comes up portrays relationships as being circular. In the screen shot above, it’s clear that…

  • Code should read like a diary

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    Code should read like a diary. When someone you’ve never met picks it up and starts reading, what you wrote is all that person will ever know for sure. If you leave out intimate details, those details are lost forever.

  • OSX, HostName, and FiOS

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    Flash-back to 2004 when Matt figured out how to change the computer name on his new Mac; now flash-forward to today when I need to do the same thing, and his method didn’t work. Also tried Richard Bronosky’s method, and still no joy. If you have FiOS, it could be Verizon’s fault. I needed to change the…

  • Verizon FIOS, AirPort Extreme, and Ken

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    Having just moved into my new apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, I was elated to discover that Verizon FIOS was an available option for my television and internet needs. If you’ve never heard of FIOS, it’s essentially a fiber optic cable fed directly into your home capable of providing ludicrous speeds and outstanding response time.…

  • Giving props is cool

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    I’m not really a business-man kind of guy. I’ve never really been able to wrap my head around the economic logistics of running a zillion dollar corporation, so I’ll preface this to say that I can’t really speak from that angle with first hand experience. What my perception of that kind of business is though,…

  • The importance of a desk

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    A year ago this August, my girlfriend and I moved into our second place together. At our first place, I purchased us two very plain white tables from IKEA that we used as our L shaped shared office, and it worked out pretty well since we both use laptops as our primary machines and they…