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Cloud Based DID With a POTS Based Asterisk System 10 Mar 2013 | 12:30 am
A while back I wrote about my experience setting up a business phone system with Asterisk, Polycom, and POTS. This system has been working fine over the last year, I’ve only had to dive in once or twi...
Billings Pro Touch Server & Client Syncing Issues 15 Sep 2012 | 07:33 pm
Quick tip for anyone having issues with getting their iPhone’s Billings Pro app to sync with a local Billings Pro server: I recently grabbed a Asus RT-N16 and flashed it with DD-WRT. It was working gr...
MacRuby 0.12, RVM, and Gem Installation Problems 29 Jul 2012 | 02:18 am
I recently jumped back into a MacRuby project that I haven’t touched in a while. I upgraded to the latest MacRuby 0.12, installed the necessary gems via macgem install, and was presented with this err...
Cocoa User Interface Buttons: Previous and Next 27 May 2012 | 08:32 am
I created these years ago, but forgot to post them until now: back forward icons for a Cocoa / Objective-C application. PSD + TIFF files included. They were designed during the snow leopard (possibly ...
Social Norms vs Market Valuation 17 May 2012 | 12:22 pm
I’m reading Predictably Irrational a really fascinating book, especially for those who have any interest in economics. One of the chapters that I’ve just finished discusses the ‘two worlds’ of valuati...
Convert MS SQL Database to CSV or MySQL 21 Apr 2012 | 12:35 am
This is more of a thorny issue that you would at first expect – Microsoft does not provide an easy way out of their database if you are on a different platform. The open source (or paid!) tools avail...
Product Pricing in a Zero Marginal Cost Distribution Environment 16 Apr 2012 | 05:33 am
Jarrod Drysdale on digital product pricing: Our strategies were very different. Sacha wrote a book and priced it relative to the cost of other books, which is the strategy just about everyone follows...
PHP, MS SQL, and Linux 6 Apr 2012 | 05:00 pm
Note: this was a draft from 2009. I never finished documenting everything, and I (thankfully!) no longer have to integrate with the MS SQL database mentioned here. However, I figured I throw this info...
MacRuby, CocoaPods, 10.7, and XCode 4.3 26 Mar 2012 | 06:59 am
I have a MacRuby project that uses CocoaPods for many of its ObjC dependencies. I had a bit of trouble getting it to run properly with the latest version of Xcode (4.3). This had to do with a recent c...
Create Gzipped Tar Archive Service for OS X 10.6 + 10.7 23 Mar 2012 | 05:00 pm
Although the tgz command line syntax is very simplistic, I’ve never managed to remember the exact flags for the command line interface. Additionally, if I’m clicking around in the Finder I don’t want ...
