http://drewjoh.com/blog Words on your display Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:29:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently had a small need to sign up two new Google Apps accounts and setup calendar sharing between them. So I naturally open up Safari as my second browser of choice and go to the sign-up page, only to notice that rather than the standard 7.2GB of space, I ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/11/google-apps-only-gives-2gb-to-safari-users/ Just spent almost the entire day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when trying out many different flash multi-file uploading widgets. All of them would give me a 302 redirect http error, even when testing locally. So after much searching and reading and studying... and finally testing this ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/09/bug-with-adobe-flash-on-mac-when-uploading-files-to-a-redirected-url/ I've been developing a site this weekend and decided to go ahead and go live with yipURL.com with basic functionality. It's yet another URL minimizer, but I do have unique things in the works for it! Try it out and give me your feedback! Now off to get some sleeeep! http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/09/launched-a-site-today/ I was recently playing with mod_rewrite and wanting a couple of subdomains to act as subdomains, but all others to redirect back to my site without the leading "www". For example: www.example.com => example.com bad.example.com => example.com api.example.com => api.example.com Not being a regular expression or mod_rewrite expert (or any resemblance of such), this ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/09/redirect-all-but-used-subdomains-to-primary-domain-using-mod_rewrite-and-codeigniter/ Ran into a little problem hitting the memory limit for PHP when serving 100MB+ files through a script like: $file = @fopen($filename,"r"); if ($file) { while(!feof($file)) {     print(fread($file, 1024*4));     ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/09/serving-a-large-file-through-php-without-hitting-memory_limit/ Now this looks cool! Ubiquity from Mozilla is looking to connect "the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily". Check it out! Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/09/mozilla-labs-ubiquity/ I recently had a chance to upgrade my iMac to the 2.8Ghz 24" with the 800Mhz memory. I had 4GB of the 667Mhz memory on my previous iMac and never had problems with running out of memory. However, here's my memory usage when playing music on iTunes using the shuffle ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/08/itunes-using-12gb-of-memory/ There's a growing number of these micro-blogging services. And while I'm signed up for all of them except Jaiku, I still don't know which one to use primarily. I'm now also faced with the question of which one should I use for one of our websites to post more incremental ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/04/pownce-twitter-tumblr-jaiku-oh-my/ I was lucky enough to get a SocialThing.com invite from Dan Taylor, so I have some invites of my own now. Let me know if you'd like one! http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/04/socialthing-invites/ If you're one of the lucky ones to be able to get one of the latest MacBooks with Multi-Touch, you've probably asked the same question I have: "How can I get Firefox to use the swipe gesture to go forwards and backwards like Safari does?" Answer: MultiClutch This neat little Preference Pane ... http://drewjoh.com/blog/2008/04/multitouch-trackpad-gestures-for-the-rest-of-your-apps/