Archive for July, 2009
Stress Test – Burn in test – For hard drives
I have recently purchased some hard drives to easily backup some files. Basic data duplication and then taking it off site. It is a short term solution to our backup needs. So we got 3 1TB hard drives and I wanted some way to quickly test them. Update sudo fdisk -l to list all your […]
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: stress test
Rails Setup – Jaunty 9.04 – Postgres – RMagick – Xapian – Hpricot – Git
Just installed Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 onto my laptop and wanted to note down all the installed packages I ended up using. I haven’t tested this on a clean install, but should all flow nicely. Hopefully will help me next time I fresh install. Will get you setup with rails and some useful libs and plugins. […]
In: Server Config · Tagged with: git, Hpricot, Jaunty 9.04, postgres, Rails, RMagick, Xapian
Boot Windows 7 RC – win7 – From USB Thumb Drive
A very good blog post here about how to do it http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345 Here is a recap, you must be in Vista or another Win 7 install. I used a virtualbox install to do the formatting, then copied the iso files across inside of ubuntu. Step 1: Format the Drive The steps here are to use […]
Problem with Objective C UITabBar at bottom of Screen
When poping up an UIAction Sheet infront of a UITabBar I had some problems getting the buttons to correctly react to presses. The reason for this turned out to be with the UITabBar having the a listener that was a higher priority than the button on the UIActionSheet. To solve this you have to add […]
In: Iphone · Tagged with: iPhone, Objective C
Confusion with simple NString manipulation in Objective C
Coming from a Java background, I’ve found it extremely difficuilt to do any simple String manipulation. My first attempt was NSString *string1 = @"This is a"; NSString *string2 = @" test"; NSString *newString = string1 + string2; As it turns out this doesn’t work so well. After much frustration I found the following solution NSString […]
In: Iphone · Tagged with: nstring, Objective C
Pull A Git Branch from Remote
Up until lately I have been improperly pulling my remote branches to local. What I mean is I create a new branch locally, push it to remote (GitHub) then pull it onto a designers computer with the following command (this is not how to do it) #DON’T DO THIS git checkout -b < new_branch > […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: checkout, git, Pull, Remote Branch
Firefox 3.5 Goodness
As an update to a previous post about Firefox Memory Leak where I said that I frequently saw 1.4GB of ram used by Firefox 3.0. Well I am pleased to announce that I have not seen Firefox memory to anywhere above 512MB!! Well done Firefox Team! This makes my machine much more bearable and allows […]
In: Web Development · Tagged with: Firefox
Connect is live
Well after a lot of hard work yesterday I launched a huge feature into our website Made From New Zealand. I quickly fixed up a couple issues straight after deployment and now everything seems to be ticking along nicely. It is a huge relief getting it up and in the real world where it can […]
In: Web Development · Tagged with: Facebook
