The other day while in #drupal-au we were discussing IRC clients, and tanc mentioned a free OS X client called LimeChat, so last night I tried it out but promptly went looking for a better theme. Read more »

I was just trying to log into the ATO Business portal, and found that I can't now, looks like the issue cropped up as of Snow Leopard and is due to some Java changes.

Here is the fix:

• Option click on the CSI Installer and select: Show Package Contents
• Then navigate to: Contents > Resources > jarfiles
• Copy csi.jar to:
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Java.VM.Framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/ext

Now you need to set the Java applet priority to 32bit:

If your like me and changed your root password for security reasons after reading about exploits to Jailbroken iPhones, then you may have forgotten what you had changed the password to.

Our objective is to get root write control to the file system so you can change the root password in /etc/master.passwd back to something that you know. This should be simple as all apps run as root. We do this by first installing iFile.

1. Open up cydia

Last year, Gartner classified Drupal as a 'niche player', meaning Drupal does well in a segment of a market, but that we had limited ability to innovate or outperform competitors. In this year's report, which was released last week, Drupal was promoted to the 'visionaries' category right next to Google and other big players. According to Gartner, visionaries align with Gartner's view of how a market will evolve, but they have yet to deliver against that vision. Read more »

If you are a front-end web developer or host your own websites I highly recommend you take the time to read the following books by Steve Souders of Yahoo: Read more »

Once I'd set up my Google Apps account I wanted to switch to using its reader instead of my old accounts one.

The thing that kept me with my old account however was my starred items, below is a method to switch and get your starred items as well:

First you will need to export your feeds from your old account, when you are logged in to your old reader account: Read more »

Guess what! You can use multi-touch to switch tabs in Firefox 3.5!!!
It was enabled in the beta's, but it's disabled by default now that 3.5 has gone gold, but here is how to enable it: Read more »

I'll be buying an iPhone 3G S this weekend, here are some of my must have apps:

For Work

Things $12.99
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager for the iPhone, There is also a desktop version of Things and the iPhone app can sync with it. Cultured Code Read more »

One problem I've always had with Google services was the difficulty synchronizing them with my desktop applications.
When I was using windows I managed to get a calendar sync using Rainlendar which also works on OS X although it doesn't give you 2way sync with iCal, and incidentally doesn't play that well with PathFinder's Desktop. Read more »

On Ubuntu Server 8.10, PHP5, Drupal 6.x. If your Drupal's Status report page returns the following error:

GD Image Rotation Low Quality / Poor Performance
The installed version of PHP GD does not support ...

Here are the steps to remedy it. This will install a GD pre-compiled working version. It is a complete bundled (forked) GD libraries:

1. Adding 2 lines to your file /etc/apt/sources.lst (/etc/apt/sources.list on Debian)
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