David Sirr's ...stuff

After watching Juno the other day, my wife and i were both amused and interested by the quirky music in the soundtrack, so i obtained a copy and was duly impressed by Kimya Dawson's songs in particular, and in turn obtained Remember That I Love You, which features many of the songs that were in Juno. I can highly recommend this album if you like that sort of acoustic lyrical randomness, and on closer listening the songs have a much deeper subtext and you can really appreciated Kimya's song writing skills.

I've added an essential software list to this blog that contains a list of software that i use daily in my web development and a second list of more general apps i can't live without. This is a great resource if you are new to a Mac dev environment and aren't sure what apps to use on OSX! I plan on keeping this list up to date whenever i find any awesome new apps

 

ARGH!!!! a so much time wasted... on what? One Apache virtualhost rewrite section :( Problem: enabling friendly URLs in wordpress Supposed Solution: cut and paste sample apache code from wordpress admin

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Frustration: Multiple random frigged up errors that require pulling all my hair out, wasting a couple of hours, and reading countless useless articles on google Salvation: Doubting leopard server / Apache's ability to parse plain text in a simple and logical fashion, I manually typed every line of the sample code verbatim rather than copy/pasting any of it. and... it works like a charm... so to reiterate... ARGH!!!! Lessons learned: type your code, even though it may take longer it may be shorter in the long run! also, if you want to use rewrite within a virtualHost instead of a .htaccess, you need to be inside a <directory> to use the RewriteBase which will help keep your assets working correctly after a rewrite. Lastly use blogcfc instead of wordpress! (i would be if only blogcfc had this lush hemmingway theme :) )

I'm still in the initial stages, but here is a useful tip: When adding subversion to the server make sure you *APPEND* to the system path rather than replace it! Don't be a unix noob like me and assume that because there was no PATH entry in the file that it wasn't in some other config file. So if you are editing /private/etc/profile: Instead of writing PATH = "/usr/mypath", use PATH = "$PATH:/usr/mypath" If you don't do that a whole load of things will mess up!!

We had a most disappointing end to an impressive season this weekend as we were knocked out of the first semi-final by our long term rivals the Kensington (formerly Kingsford) Apaches. We finished the first day in a strong position at 2-60 chasing 132, but ended up falling an agonising 5 runs short of the target bowled out for 127. Despite this we can take pride in finishing 3rd place in a higher grade then we were supposed to be in and look forward to season 2008/09