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Groby Unplugged » Blog Archive » Making a better iCal
1 Comment Published by Ben Wann December 30th, 2005 in TechnologyWoo hooo event alarms! Thanks for making this Robert!
Groby Unplugged » Blog Archive » Making a better iCal
Making a better iCal
A few days ago, Merlin Mann mentioned on his 43 Folders site that he’d be interested in a small enhancement for iCal. Out of the box, iCal only adds an alarm to events if you […]
This sounds like a really interesting practice to get into. I think it will really stretch me out in terms of my approach to software design. Always good to get the grey cells crankin!
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How do you get to be a great musician? It helps to know the theory, and to understand the […]
ManualWhitelist - Spamassassin Wiki
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann December 20th, 2005 in Technology, Web HostingThe Spamassassin chronicles continue, now I know how to manually whitelist a single user or an entire domain of users. See below for the technique.
ManualWhitelist - Spamassassin Wiki
ManualWhitelist
Whitelisting a user
Adding a user to your whitelist gives them a -100 score, which has the effect of always marking their mail as non-spam.
To manually whitelist a […]
SpamAssassin Test Technique
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann December 19th, 2005 in Nerd, Technology, Web HostingSpamAssassin is a great open source software package that provides bayesian spam filtering for email. It is very customizable, and has lots of cool 3rd party plugins for making your life as a server administrator just that much easier.
Lately I was configuring SpamAssassin to do some filtering and needed a way to test that […]
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger OSX
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann December 14th, 2005Check out this nice set of instructions for getting Ruby on Rails set up on Mac OSX.
The Hivelogic Narrative: Articles: Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on TigerTechnology | Web Design | Development | Mac OS X | Ruby on Rails | 12.01.05 - 09:22 PM
What follows are updated instructions for manually building and installing Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and LightTPD on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Web Application Testing cheatsheet | SecGuru
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann December 12th, 2005 in TechnologyThis is a nice list of items to run your web application through in order to make sure you are at least being a bit paranoid about security. I hope to make it through this list on a number of apps I have been working on the next couple of days.
Web Application Testing cheatsheet […]
Macworld: News: Yahoo buys social bookmarking firm Del.icio.us
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann December 12th, 2005Another one bites the dust……
Macworld: News: Yahoo buys social bookmarking firm Del.icio.us
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News ServiceYahoo has acquired Del.icio.us, a New York-based startup that is considered a pioneer in social bookmarking, a type of online service that lets users save, annotate and tag links to their favorite Web pages and share their lists with other users.
Both Yahoo and Del.icio.us separately announced the deal on Friday afternoon (U.S. eastern time) via postings on official blogs. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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