Although I'm aiming for daily updates here, I do plan to take tomorrow off. Merry Christmas!


  • Tactile Pro 2.0 - Have I ever mentioned how much I detest membrane keyboards? The Mac Pro keyboard is better than most, but it still stinks. It turns out that Matias makes a mechanical switch keyboard for Mac; I've got one on order, and I'll let you know if it's as good as the Unicomp PC keyboards when it arrives.

  • BetterZip - An actual GUI archive application for OS X. Not entirely sure this is worth paying for, though I do get annoyed at the lack of fine control over zip options that the OS gives by default.

  • BitNami WordPress stack - This is what I used to install WordPress, and it was pretty painless. I did have to muck around in the Apache configuration files, though; by default it puts the install on port 8080 in the /wordpress folder.

  • Installing ffmpeg on Mac OS X - Needed this for a client the other day; here's the easiest install instructions I could find.

  • Acts_as_ferret Tutorial - Another chunk of software I'm needing to come up to speed on; this is helpful.