OS X Terminal Prompt showing a different name to the Computer Name

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

My mac terminal came with a default prompt which looked like this: Vigor:~ pete$ I had changed my computer name to something I preferred, which works fine for browsing to your own apache server, but this did not have any effect on thebash prompt. I also wasn't (yet) interested in ...

Firefox Plugins Reloading on Window Resize

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Firefox seems to reload plugins, for example flash and quicktime, when the window is resized, but only under certain circumstances. If the scrollbars change (from being there to not being there or vice versa) then the effect occurs, as it apparently does if you alter a containing element's css position from ...

Blogging from TextMate

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Wow. TextMate is awesome. It's a great editor (with the best 'projects' paradigm I've come across) and then you get 'bundles' which are the equivalent of Extensions in Firefox. For example, this post was written in, and published directly from, TextMate.

Think Similar

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Like most of the other people in the office I'm working in at the moment, I am now the proud owner of a macbook pro. It's awesome :)