Trying to remain agile in a BIG design world.

If only I had better Google_fu this post by Josh Goebel would have saved me a day. The key was remembering that Oniguruma is more than than a Rails gem. So you have to (1) make sure that Oniguruma is installed (I recommend via MacPorts) and then (2) make sure that the gem can find [...]

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§60 · April 6, 2010 · Apple, Rails, Ruby · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


It seems that a lot of folks are experiencing the “Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem” issue with Cisco’s VPN Client in Mac OS X. After much searching when I encountered the same issue, the solution turned out to be quite simple. Download and install the client from MacUpdate. Profit. There is [...]

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§36 · April 23, 2009 · Apple · 6 comments ·


I know that I should have these committed to memory by now but I don’t and I can never find them on the Web. Now I’ll never loose them! (Those sound like famous last words…) Symbol Command ⌥ option ⌃ control ⇧ shift ⇪ caps lock ⌘ command ⌧ clear ⌫ delete ⌦ del (erase [...]

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§27 · March 21, 2009 · Apple, General · (No comments) ·


Imagine my joy when the company owner decided (for reasons that I care not to divulge here) to swap his year old MacBook Pro for my nearly two year old Dell X1! I hadn’t been using the Dell since I also had a year old MacBook (white) and although I was giving up 20GB of [...]

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§11 · April 23, 2008 · Apple, General · (No comments) ·


As I am want to do, I became involved in an exchange on Twitter with the lovely and talented Cal Evans concerning his thoughts about forsaking his current OS/hardware choice and going Mac instead. While this seemed like a slam dunk to me, one person’s experience seemed to be giving him pause. With Twitter’s 140 [...]

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§9 · March 19, 2008 · Apple, General · (No comments) ·