by Ben on December 19, 2008
I have officially ended the use of Dreamweaver for all of my web development. I got so tired of the slow bloated performance of Dreamweaver and constantly having to pour more money into new versions. So I went looking for a better way and found this…
On Mac OS X I use CyberDuck for FTP and [...]
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by Ben on December 19, 2008
Occasionally, you’ll want to be sure you are getting fresh DNS information during development or working on servers with hostnames. This has changed in the Leopard version of Mac OS X. The following command will now flush your DNS cache on Mac OS X Leopard:
dscacheutil -flushcache
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by Ben on November 27, 2008
On the surface, these two services may seem like the same thing. However, when you really look at the two options for centralizing the storage and syncing of your data (email, contacts, calendars, etc) they accomplish the same thing but in very different ways. They both have their pro’s and con’s but that is because [...]
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mobileme
by Ben on September 25, 2008
The HTTP 301 status code is meant for use when you want to redirect a page or URL to its new destination after reorganizing or moving a web site around. This can be on the same domain or an entirely new domain. Here is the W3C definition of the 301 code.
The requested resource has been [...]
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by Ben on September 24, 2008
If you have ever contacted Apple for support on any of their products, you know the first question they are going to ask you is… “What is your serial number?”. The serial number is easy to find on most of their products because they allow you to access it through the software. This is typically [...]
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