I’ve always found it annoying that OS X doesn’t have a “recent files” or at least one that can be usable. The “All My Files” sidebar item….no thank you, thats too big Using Finder Search Filters, I’ve been using a better one for a little and it seems to be working well for me. This is…
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Easy OS X Window Management with Slate
I’ve been using slate for years, but figure I should share my .slate file I don’t get how people use OS X without it. Seriously…Using their mouse to drag windows around…And don’t even get me stared on the El Capitan Window Management (or lack thereof should i say!) Add this as ~/.slate and relaunch slate.…
Best Gmail Filter – Unread Primary Inbox
is:inbox -category:(updates OR promotions OR social OR forums) is:unread Very handy, allows me to only see gmail thats unread in my primary. If you just do is:unread, you’ll get unread from all categories Thank you https://holarails.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/gmail-how-to-filter-unread-mails-from-the-primary-tab/
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Fixing Mobilegeddon for all – except myself!
Just finishing a solid 2 weeks in France working against the April 21st deadline for “mobilegeddon” I haven’t written in awhile but thats because I’ve been busy coding, which is good. I’ll eventually write a theme for my own site haha. its funny looking back at old posts, from say 2010 and how I wrote…
Quiksilver and Travels, and a status update
So here I am, its the end of August and I haven’t written since Feb. but for good reason! This summer has brought me to France Two times, saying in St. Jean de Luz and Biarritz. It was an amazing experience and I got to see some beautiful places. Work wise it was awesome, I…
The web and the world is starting to get interesting
Having done web development during in the 90s while also growing up as a kid, I was mesmerized by the amount of progress technology was making. When I was in 7th grade (1998) I was writing websites and reading PC Mags, drooling over 500 Mhz PCs and 17″ monitors. My dad being a techie himself,…
OS X Mail: Writing changes to disk?
what is this?! so I used to be an Apple Mail person. I have Apple Mail on Snow Leopard and it’s the best email client by far now, with OS X Mavericks, I don’t know what the hell they did but it they KILLED MAIL I seriously don’t know what Apple is doing ruining their…
Here we go again, again – Demandware
Well it’s that time of year again, the time to move onto a new e-commerce platform. Let’s recap the last 3 years, as well as a bit of the future in terms of migrations: Migrate DC Shoes marketing site, skate.dcshoes.com, to eZ Publish at www.dcshoes.com, to eventually migrating that to blog.dcshoes.com – 2011 Migrate the…
A Goal and an E-Commerce Transition
Walking into my first interview, I heard for the first time how our company (Quiksilver Inc.) was about to migrate their e-commerce platform from GSI Commerce to ATG Commerce. But first, a little background… Prior to my Quiksilver start I was working for a smaller company (< 30), still focused in Web Development but working…