Paul Grunt

I support Barack Obama for president in 08′. Nuff said.

Espresso. Time for something new in web development.

I got an email from Jan at MacRabbit today and I’m stoked to announce that I’ve been accepted into the Espresso testing group! MacRabbit makes the best CSS editor ever, CSSEdit, so I can only imagine how great Espresso is going to be. Espresso isn’t going to be a full blown and bloated solution to development, rather it will focus on allowing the community to develop Sugar with it’s SugarDevelopmentKit. Freedom to extend is always good.

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To show hidden files & directories in Mac OS X:

term> defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

*change YES to NO if you want to hide them.

Restart or force quit finder to see all your hidden files and directories.

Do you prefer VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop for Mac and why?

Instructions on checking an MD5 checksum on a Mac OS X:

1. In Finder, browse to /Applications/Utilities.
2. Double-click on the Terminal icon. A Terminal window will appear.
3. In the Terminal window, type: “md5 ” (md5 followed by a space).
4. Drag the downloaded file from the Finder into the Terminal window.
5. Click in the Terminal window, press the Return key, and compare the checksum displayed to the screen to the one you have.

I’m a cyclist and seriously offended at the current state of gasoline prices so I thought I should mention Zeropergallon today. Get out your bike and ride it!

BIKING KICKS ASS

Biking is fun. Biking is fast.
Biking is quiet. Biking is cool.
Biking is healthy. Biking is simple.
Biking costs less for us.
Biking costs less for our cities.
Biking costs less for the planet.
Go ride a bike. And spread the word.

- zeropergallon

Webmonkey was a great resource back in the day and now it’s back and it’s a WIKI!

“The original web developer’s resource has returned. Webmonkey has been completely redesigned, and we’re ready to rock once more. Also, our entire content library is now hosted on a wiki, so every tutorial, reference page and code example is open for editing. Come on in and show us what you’ve got!” - Webmonkey

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly forgetting when our US Holidays occur. I work from home so I schedule my days off whenever I need them, (well, honestly every day is a day off if I’m not working on a freelance project), but I’d like to know in advance when the my friends and family are going to have some holiday time to hang out. So, I looked on Apple’s site and I found a US Holiday Calendar for iCal. Stoked. I highly recommend this calendar if you forget when US Holidays are.