• Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So those of you who anticipated a Jabber/XMPP chat client on the iPhone (and iPod Touch) after TUAW rumoured that ‘a new XMPP framework has been spotten(sic) in the

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  • Proof Gmail IMAP (Gimap) supports IMAP IDLE

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So for those of you with capable mail clients (like OS X Mail.app), here’s proof that IMAP IDLE works for delivering push mail: $ openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993 -crlf

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  • Single command Django installer for OS X

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So you want to see what all the fuss around Django is about? To get the latest bleeding edge snapshot (as discussed here, here, here, here, here, here, here

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  • Using Pingdom’s Web Services API with NuSOAP

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So you want to use Pingdom‘s excellent Web Services API [WSDL] [Documentation] but you don’t have SOAP in your PHP? All is not lost as you can still use

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  • OpenDocument (ODF) Acid Test Proof of Concept

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Morning all, I’ve just put the finishing touches on the firstproof-of-concept Acid Test for OpenDocument Format (ODF) which I hopewill become a useful tool for encouraging and testing interoperability.The

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  • Making SSL work with Apache 2 on Mac OS X with CAcert

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Note: This post may have been corrupted during a site migration due to the complex code formatting. YMMV. Getting SSL up and running on OS X is not too

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  • Installing VMware tools in Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So like me you’ve been hanging out for another Long Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu release and having arrived last month (8.04) you’ve got it up and running in VMware

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  • SSHKeychain 0.8.2 Post Install Problem on Leopard

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It seems SSHKeychain breaks on (recent?) Leopard builds because it wants to find a group for each user (eg samj:samj): #!/bin/sh chown -R $USER:$USER “$2/SSHKeychain.app” #chown root:admin “$2/SSHKeychain.app/Contents/Resources/TunnelRunner” #chmod

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  • Apple WWDC Predictions

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So it’s Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today in San Francisco and Steve Jobs will certainly have some new goodies for us Mac junkies, likely: iPhone 2.0 Immediately available,

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  • Google Apps – On in 60 seconds (HQ Quicktime MOV)

    This content is 19 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.For those who liked the Google Apps – On in 60 seconds video (YouTube) you can also download the high quality original hosted ‘in the cloud’ on Amazon S3.

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  • Google Apps – On in 60 seconds

    This content is 19 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.To celebrate today’s Google Apps launch here’s a screencast I whipped up showing just how easy it is with Google Apps to get ‘On in 60 seconds’: Update: On advice

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  • Compiling bash-3.0 on Interix

    This content is 20 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So you’ve followed my instructions for updating config.guess for Interix 5.2 (the version shipping with Windows 2003 Server R2) and now you want to compile something. Interix ships with

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