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Lifehacker: Teach Yourself to How to Code

Posted by Chris Renner on December 11, 2009

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Lifehacker continues to move up my list of favorite sites to visit on a daily basis.  They recently ran a list of top how-to guides from 2009, and included among them is Programming 101: Teach Yourself How to Code.
PHP gets plenty of attention in the section about server-side scripting languages, althought I will note they [...]

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New theme for my blog…

Posted by Chris Renner on December 10, 2009

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I’ve been paying more attention to web design lately.  Why?  Well I’m definitely not morphing into a designer–I don’t have the DNA for it–but rather because design is relevant, even in an enterprise environment.  As I have mentioned before, the interface matters to the end user–perhaps moreso than all the backend code you’ve spent hours [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: My upgrade experience

Posted by Chris Renner on August 31, 2009

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My Snow Leopard disk arrived Friday, and I promptly began upgrading my three Macs (A 2008 Mac Pro and early 2008 MacBook Pro at work, and a 2008 Mac Pro at home).
I’ve read very few horror stories so far about folks and their upgrades.  I had no issues whatsoever.  Install took about 1 hour for [...]

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BlueHarvest Fixes pesky ._DSstore and resource fork files

Posted by Chris Renner on July 15, 2009

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For those developing on a Mac in an otherwise non-Mac environment (Windows or Linux desktops and/or servers), you’ve undoubtedly run into the dreaded ._DSstore files.  These are resource files OS X creates for directories, and when connecting to a remote file system of another flavor, OS X will leave behind these files and cause you [...]

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