Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw... Continue reading →

One OS-X Tip and One MySQL Dev Tip

I’ve downloaded and installed MySQL recently. I was doing a few things to make it easier to work with and thought, “I ought to document this, it isn’t real intuitive without pages of documentation being read.” So here’s some tips. 1. Make sure you can view all of your files in OS-X, especially if you... Continue reading →

Mac Battles, The Personal Day to Day of Software Development and Morale

I’ve been using a Mac for a couple of months now. My employer purchased a few for us coders to try out, and I’ve become spoiled. I rarely want to use my other machines now, as they seem cumbersome and inefficient. Mainly from a hardware perspective, as the OS itself seems to have plusses and... Continue reading →

Chrome OS-X Shortcuts for Developers/Coders

I’d been procrastinating finding most of these, just clicking with the mouse/pointer which is slow. When I’m developing code however, using the mouse/pointer just adds up more and more over time. So here’s the shortcut keys to git’r done! 🙂 ⌘-Option-I Opens Developer Tools. ⌘-Option-J Opens the JavaScript Console. ⌘-Option-U Opens the source of your... Continue reading →