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Inauguration Day Special
Manage your site locally – MAMP
Last night I discovered “MAMP“. It’s likely I’m late to the party on this, but thought I’d share it with the ClearDev crew just in case there are others still in the dark (in which case you’d need LAMP). MAMP is for Mac OS X, but I’m sure you can do the same thing on [...]
Some cultcha on the cheap
Andy Ihnatko “twittered” this deal the other day and I wanted to pass it along… You can get “The 99 Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces” for $7.99 on Amazon.com. Hell of a deal if you’re a fan or just need something different for the background. Around here it helps to keep the servers calm and [...]
Filemaker truncating fields to one character in MySQL
We’ve been working on a database project here and a key component is hooking FileMaker into MySQL. That way the client will be able to do all those cool desktop type things like easily create labels, do custom layouts, mail merges, etc. and still have a sweet web-based application. Using the MySQL ODBC 3.51 driver, [...]