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Breakdown of average minutes/visitor on social sites

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Love the simplicity and icons

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Sourcebits' elegant landing page

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Add helper tool to project

Add target

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kSMErrorDomainFramework error 5 - The tool at the specified path is not valid

Below is the error produced when Other Linker Flags is not set correctly

XCode debugger:

2012-03-11 21:21:28.771 MyApp[37675:903] Bless Error: Error Domain=kSMErrorDomainFramework Code=5 UserInfo=0x10011b4c0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kSMErrorDomainFramework error 5 - The tool at the specified path is not valid.)"

System Console error:

11/03/12 9:21:28 PM /usr/libexec/launchdadd[37611] FAILURE: Failed to create property list! (Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data) 11/03/12 9:21:28 PM /usr/libexec/launchdadd[37611] FAILURE: Tool has no embedded launchd plist! 11/03/12 9:21:28 PM /usr/libexec/launchdadd[37611] FAILURE: Could not create a request for tool at path bla bla bla

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Why are the base lines of the DropBox logo off? The green dotted lines are where I would expect the base of the box to be joined (top the red circles).

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How to draw dashed lines in Photoshop

select brush tool (this can also be done with pencil)

click on Toggle the Brushes panel

click on the Brush Tip Shape section

adjust Spacing

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Draw straight lines in photoshop

Select brush tool (this can also be done with pencil)

Click at point A

Hold shift and click at point B

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uninitialized constant Mysql while running rake tasks

Using:

rbenv

bundler

mysql2 gem

I have had this twice and the answer is obvious. Make the following change in database.yml:

adapter: mysql2

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lion rbenv bundler mysql: uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes

On OSX Lion, when using rbenv and bundler I ran into the following problem when trying to run the rake db tasks:

uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes

This issue also came about when I was using rvm instead of rbenv.

To fix...

Add the following to bash profile:

export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/mysql/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Run the following in terminal:

bundle config build.mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config bundle install

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Jobs still working in the afterlife

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How to create a bash script - Bash script Permission Denied

Create bash file called hello.sh

Add the following contents to it:

#!/bin/bash echo "List this directory!" ls -la

Save it!

Make it executable:

chmod +x java-run.sh

Run it!

./hello.sh

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A must when writing requirements of any kind.

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Users are happier when you cover more, not less

I saw this quote from Jakob Nielsen and it reminds me of programmers who will spend all their time on one thing instead of accomplishing many things when the project is at a crucial stage that requires many things to be done.

Better to accept a wider margin of error in usability metrics than to spend the entire budget learning too few things with extreme precision.

-- Jakob Nielsen