Category Archives: Geek

CoffeeScript Bundle for TextMate (FIX for Command Not Found)

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Installed HomeBrew to get Node.js, used the node package manager to get CoffeeScript, added a TextMate Bundle for CoffeeScript and got a “coffee: command not found” when doing a Command-B. WTF? Here’s how I fixed it. Continue reading →

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JSON and Undefined Object Properties

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Ran into an interesting case where the JavaScript object coming out of JSON wasn’t the same as the JavaScript object encoded going in. Continue reading →

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Un-denying a Denied Host

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

A great guy named Nicholas put out an easy to use script to unban an ip address that’s been banned by denyhosts. Here’s me gushing with praise since I could be lazy and not have to write it, along with the script so you can benefit from his contribution as well. Continue reading →

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C# Must Haves

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Resources for quickly getting up to speed on C#. Continue reading →

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Mysterious Copyright

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

This is clearly one of those things I did to myself as a good idea, then forgot about, only to be plagued by it later. I noticed that all of my photographs on my camera were reporting a copyright with … Continue reading →

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Find and Replace in Word using C# .NET

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Solution to how to do a global search and replace in MS-Word, including across floating text objects, in C#/.NET. Continue reading →

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Netflix Recommends

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

WTF did Netflix recommend this? Continue reading →

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Seeing in Black and White

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

I just had an interesting thing happen: I saw in black and white. That’s what my brian actually saw with the unaided eye. Here’s the cool part, I tell you how I reproduced it. It was like nothing I’d experienced before. It was beautiful. Continue reading →

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FIX: undefined symbol: apr_ldap_ssl_init

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Did an update to Ubuntu Jaunty and Apache stopped working with the message “undefined symbol: apr_ldap_ssl_init”. This post is how I fixed it. Continue reading →

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Found: The Best iPhone Development Book So Far

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Want to write your own iPhone applications but Objective-C, XCode, Interface Builder, and the steep learning curve of Cocoa getting in the way? Have I found the book for you. Continue reading →

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