I found the excellent application Senuti before I left for vacation, and just now have it set up with my backup music archive to find and pull any music I’ve got only on my iPod and not backed up to disc somewhere. It’s probably the slickest app of its kind I’ve seen so far. The key feature is comparison of what’s on your iPod vs. what’s in your iTunes library, which makes syncing manually very easy.
70 Expert ideas for better CSS coding. There are some good nuggets in here—this is an area where there is no real ‘best practices’ document out there. It’s about as freeform as one can get, and something many clients don’t understand when they see a proposal.
Here are some instructions for how to build a bootable OS X install on a thumb drive. This could come in handy for a tools-only build to aid in recovery of dead drives.
Apple’s guide to installing Subversion. This is great, because there’s a link at the bottom to a web-based interface and installation instructions for that as well. The only thing stopping me from having it running until now was having to deal with a command-line interface.
Here’s an article on Css form styling, which contains a lot of info I didn’t know (or have forgotten.) (via)
There’s a shakeup at JPG Magazine, which means the two founding editors have left. While I’m sad to see this happen, I’m sure they will go on to build another, better, more successful community somewhere else. This post also contains some fantastic business advice.
This is just what I need: an article on how to boot up a Mac with an iPod. When I get the old 5GB iPod functional again, it’s going to be my emergency boot disk/toolkit.
For future reference: Yahoo offers courses on Javascript from their leading JS programmer. I haven’t seen these yet, but the reviews look good.
From a Washington Post article about soldiers bonding with their robot helpers: “One time, he actually did break down in a mission, and we sent another robot in and it got blown to pieces. It’s like he shut down because he knew something bad would happen.” (via)