Tag: Google

  • Using Google Sheets and My Maps for making decisions

    Two years ago, I moved to Salt Lake City for work. After looking around a bit for a rental property close to my new work, it became clear that I would be better off trying to buy a new home than renting if I could afford to do so. At the time the interest rates and…

  • How to change printer’s IP address on Mac OS X

    I was updating my network to use a different subnet and realized that the last time I did that, my HP printer stopped working because a lot of the network drivers set the IP address into the printer settings. So I figured that maybe I would need to update the printer’s IP address on my…

  • Make Chrome Accept a Self-Signed Certificate (on OSX)

    Make Chrome Accept a Self-Signed Certificate (on OSX)

    If your organization is like most, they will have sites that use a self-signed (or untrusted authority) certificate. From Wikipedia: In cryptography and computer security, a self-signed certificate is an identity certificate that is signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies. This term has nothing to do with the identity of the person…

  • Recover a broken WordPress

    I was helping out http://www.pmi-sfbac.org whose web site was down. The server was being unresponsive, and Larry Van Cantfort (the Director of Operations for PMI SFBAC) sent me this clue: It appears that httpd has a lot of running processes and when I try to kill them I am unable to. THis is causing the server…

  • Creating a New App (step 1)

    I decided I’d walk through creating a new app to replace one I’ve used for years on my iPhone that no longer appears to be maintained. The app in question is called GasBag which as near as I can tell stopped being updated in 2009 (see: http://blog.jam-code.com/).   I could just write a quick and dirty…

  • Moving to GMail on your iPhone

    After moving from a hosted Exchange service to GMail, you need to set up your email client on the iPhone so that it will receive the push notices. To do this, you need to add a new Exchange service on the device. There’s a nice step by step of this at http://support.google.com/a/users/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740 Alternatively, you can use…

  • Eventbrite Calendar Feed

    I volunteer and provide technical support for a few non-profits, one of which is the Project Management Institute San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (http://www.pmi-sfbac.org) where I serve as the VP of Operations and CGO. One of the moves I made in my first year with them was to migrate our event calendar to Eventbrite and…

  • JPA and Maven and multiple persistence units

    I needed to convert an existing Netbeans build to use Maven in order to stabilize the code and support Test Driven Development. Generally this was a fairly simple process: just move all the source files and resources to the right folders in a new Maven project, and add the dependencies. Everything was going swimmingly until…