Xdebug, Leopard, and 64-bit shenanigans.
In order to profile some in house web application development and find out a couple bottlenecks that were appearing I went looking for a decent PHP profiler and found Xdebug. Because I am using the built in version of PHP on the Leopard Server, and a MacPorts version on Snow Leopard (we also have an […]
Chromium Mac Build Bot Updater Script
When I read on MacRumors that the Chromium builds for the Mac were available and were actually launching the “stupid” geek in me jumped at the opportunity to try the unfinished, unpolished software. By “stupid” I refer to the side of near any geek who sees the OOO SHINY and is fully prepared to deal […]
WebKit Nightly Update Script
This is a repost of a much older post that was lost when I transitioned from Moveable Type 3 to 4.
I personally like using WebKit nightlies as my main browser as it’s more or less Safari with a better, faster, and much more current rendering engine underneath it. That and the gold logo looks much […]
GitHub
In order to make it easier to access the crap code I make in the various posts I’ve created a git repository on GitHub. You can access it at http://github.com/Chealion/chealion. I leave it as an exercise to the reader on how they should install git and if necessary access said information.
At present the only code […]
Opening/Copying Locked DVDs
At work we sometimes receive DVDs that we need footage off of that are locked. They will play back fine in DVD Player but we don’t want it for playback. The resulting DVD images are always titled SONATA_VOLUME and are created by a stand alone Sony DVD Recorder.
In order to copy the VIDEO_TS file off […]
Tab Count to Growl for Safari
The following AppleScript snippet figures out how many tabs are open in the frontmost window and spits it out to Growl. Helps when I don’t feel like counting how many tabs I’ve opened in WebKit/Safari. Note: To get this to work with Safari change WebKit to Safari.
tell application "WebKit" activate […]