I'm Dan Previte, a web developer and a geek in general living in Chicago and working for Caxy Inc.

Archive for the 'Geekery' Category

Source Control Visualization

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

If the title gets you excited, and doesn’t confuse and or bore you, then congratulations. You’re a dork!
This is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
DokuWiki Code Swarm from Michael Klier on Vimeo.
It is a video made by showing commits made to the DokuWiki project over time. Useless, but awesome.

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Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Well, this is terrible. One of my favorite Firefox Extensions is no longer being maintained, and will stop working at the end of this year (plus it won’t work with Firefox 3).

It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects [...]

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Stupid Harware Problems

Friday, April 18th, 2008

If iTunes gives you the error “An iPod has been detected, but it could not be identified properly” when you plug in your iPhone, try this before spending an hour and a half on the phone with Apple.
Unplug everything that’s plugged into your computer’s USB ports. Especially look for mass storage devices. External hard drives, [...]

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Important Step When Backing Up Tables

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

See that lil’ radio button that says “Structure and data”? Well. If you’re backing up a database table using SQLyog, make sure you check that if you plan on dropping the original table.
Oops. Sorry JC

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The Wall of Fail

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Most books on project management and team leadership have a chapter or so on Constructive Criticism. There are even entire books on the subject. Oh, and an acronym for how to do it correctly for the cornflower blue tie wearing corporate douche bags.

The idea is that if someone criticizes another person’s behavior the wrong way [...]

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