Weekly review: Week ending August 5, 2011

August 6, 2011

Plans from last week: Work [X] Frontend design on new subscription pages – still in progress (MM) [X] Taxes (CC) Switched from Amazon to SendGrid for transactional mails (MM) Verified backup scripts – tracked a problem with JungleDisk down to a failing post-backup script due to an expired license (Amino, MM) Changed WYSIWYG editor in [...]

Read the full article →

Skype as a SIP gateway

August 6, 2011

Skype can now be used as a SIP gateway, enabling integration with legacy phones and PBX. A new business product, Skype Connect is a regular SIP gateway, albeit one that is connected to the Skype network. For 4.95 a line/month professional users and enterprises can receive calls from Skype users on regular phones (connected to [...]

Read the full article →

Personalize your Google+ URL

July 9, 2011

Shortly after the launch of the Google+ project, GPlus.to began to offer personal URLs to Google+ profiles. If you have your own domain, here’s a way to an even more personalized Google+ profile URL. Credits for this idea should go to Thomas Rosenstand instead of me. Redirect www.yourdomain.com/+ to your Google+ profile – if your [...]

Read the full article →

Flickr backup tools

June 27, 2011

Backing up my Flickr photos has been on my to-do list for a while. Today I finally researched solutions; these two applications appear to be the best ones: FlickrEditA free, cross-platform GUI tool written in Java. Bulkr / Bulkr ProA cross-platform tool written in Adobe Air. Both versions can download all your photos incrementally. The [...]

Read the full article →

CoffeeScript support for JetBrains PhpStorm/WebStorm/PyCharm

June 27, 2011

Basic syntax highlighting and error checking of CoffeeScript is only officially available in Jetbrains RubyMine IDE – read on to get it in other IDEs. To get the same level of support for CoffeeScript in PhpStorm (and probably in similar JetBrains IDEs such as WebStorm and PyCharm), simply copy the CoffeeScript plugin directory from a [...]

Read the full article →

Rsync between network drives?

April 27, 2011

Use the –size-only flag to avoid downloading remote files for checksum generation.

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries