Notes from Nemo

Kayleighsutherland.com

So a few weekends ago I finished putting up my sisters website www.kayleighsutherland.com. It is a simple wordpress setup so she can blog about her work as a Make-up Artist. Check it out, her work is amazing!

Keithdavidsondesign.com

I’ve just completed the first iteration of a new website for a friend and local business. The website is www.keithdavidsondesign.com who specialise in customised metalwork design

Have a ganders and let us know what you think, or better still, buy a gate or three!

Hawick common riding

Just a quick note about our recent jaunt to the Hawick Common Riding. I fucking love this event. Went down with a good bunch of mates as and as always had an awesome time. If you like a good session, a sing song and some tremendious banter then I highly recommend it. Also it would appear lots of others do too according to this http://worldparty.roughguides.com/festival/default.aspx?festid=5

Anyway, cheers for all that came down and all we met that made it the great time that it was, you know who you are!

Ninkinoock FTW!

Using vi and forgetting the bastarding sudo command.

OK, so how many of you have been messing about with a system file using vi and you’ve edited about 10 lines. You go to save the file and it complains that it’s Read-Only!! Gah, you then do your thing to correct it and slap yourself for making THAT mistake AGAIN.

Anyway, rant over. Fix it by doing this!

vi ~/.vimrc

Insert this

command! -bar -nargs=0 Sw :w !sudo tee % >/dev/null

Now when you go to save and it complains just type :Sw and it will save it out as root and then ask you to reload (If someone know how to do this part automatically it would be appreciated )

Problem solved!

Sonyintosh – My experience with OSx86 on my Vaio VGN-C1Z

So everyone has been banging on about how great Macs are for a while now. I’m not convinced, the little time I’ve had using them I’ve found the OS annoying to work on. Now, I’m happy to admit it’s because I haven’t given it a chance, and the reason for that is I don’t have a spare grand to shell out for my own one.

Recently I’ve been feeling the need to try out some iPhone development. (I don’t even own one, yet) This proves particularly difficult under Window so I started looking at Mac hardware. As lovely as it is, I can’t bring myself to spend the cash on one without a purpose for doing so when I can do almost everything I need to under XP/Ubuntu. Then I came across the Hackintosh community who have documented alot of their experiences while attempting to install Mac OS X on various types of hardware with varying degrees of success.

So this brings me to my experience with it. Thankfully the community has taken the sting out of getting the majority of components for my laptop working. Hazza!

So here’s a step-by-step guide for getting OSX installed on a Sony Vaio VGN-C1Z/B Laptop. This has the following specs which might help people looking at this with a differnet model laptop which has the same hardware. Specification Link

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dojo xhrPost problems with FireFox 3

After working with dojo for the past few months, I’ve come across a few problems here and there and solutions to these problems. So I’ll start documenting them here as I feel I’ll be using dojo quite heaviliy in the future. Anyway, I’ve been implementing forms within dialog windows within the toolkit so that the form is submitted but the page is not refreshed. For this, you have to use dojo.xhrPost to submit the information AJAX style! the problem with this is it’s bloody confusing when you use FireFox 3 as your development browser and it never appears to post any information. A quick check with Chrome, IE and Safari proved it was an issue with FF3. So with a bit of googling I came across this http://dojotoolkit.org/forum/dijit-dijit-0-9/dijit-support/firefox-3-xhrpost-form-fail which shows that FF3 adds on an extra tag to the Content-Type header. So if like me you’ve got a standard Apache installation on ubuntu, you’ll find your forms not work correctly because this. The fix? is to add this line to your apache2.conf / httpd.conf.

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Under ubuntu it’s actually just commented out in ‘/etc/apache2/conf.d/charset’. Anyway, hope this helps someone.

New projects page

I’ve transferred the projects from my old wedgybo.co.uk domain as they fit better with this site. Have a looksie, most of it’s rubbish from back in the day but hey I’m proud of them!

Welcome!

Well I’ve finally taken the plunge into this world of blogging that everyone has been going on about. I’ve opened this site with the intention of displaying projects I’ve been involved with and showcasing anything interesting. Also I’ll be using it as a place to store random information I find useful to gather it in one place.