Dreaming Of Beetles
Blog URL http://www.latko.org
Tags Apple, iPhone, OS X, LAMP, GIS, Programming, Web Development, PHP, MySQL
Chris Latko's thoughts on technology and the world. Fascinated with bleeding edge technology, quite literally. Interested in all things tech. Apple, iPhone, OSX, Xcode, LAMP, Obj-C, Cappuccino, Atlas, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, GNU/Linux, GIS, etc.
Latest Blog Posts
- Headsmacking Tip O’ The Day on Nov 13, 2009 in Miscellaneous
I love Terminal.app. Especially with tabs. I spend most my day in it. I don’t want to make you read my ramblings, but the thing that almost drives me to jump out the window is consistently losing connections due to timeouts. I’m usually o...
- Watching My Startup Grow Up on Nov 11, 2009 in Personal
I’ve been keeping a secret. My friends, family, and stakeholders know, but I’ve been mum on the subject until now. The time is right, and the new team is firing on all cylinders, so I get to spill the beans. PropertyMaps, a startup I co-f...
- 100,000 Followers! Thank you! on Oct 29, 2009 in Personal
Almost three years ago, I first heard of Twitter. I didn’t get it and quickly dismissed friends that pushed it on me. A waste of time. Idiots! All of them. Fast forward two years and I finally signed up. Too many people sent the “I want t...
- 64-Bit Firefox Builds Are Here on Oct 20, 2009 in Technology
Update: Patch 513747 has been applied. The real hero of this story is Josh Aas. He got the 64-bit goodness into the codebase a couple weeks ago and committed it about a week later. I haven’t done any benchmarks on this so please check out Josh&...
- Setting Up Django With Mod_WSGI On Snow Leopard on Oct 11, 2009 in Apache
As you’ve probably noticed, I like to compile things. Package management, although useful, just really doesn’t do it for me. Recently, I had to set up a customized install of PHP on CentOS and was forced to use RPM. Well, the experience w...
- My Twitter Account Hacked on Oct 8, 2009 in Technology
“Last night I received a Growl notification from Tweetie of an RT on a spam message I sent.” My wife said “I don’t think I understood a word you said.” Well, that’s what happened and it didn’t dawn on me at f...
- Why Apple Bought Placebase on Oct 4, 2009 in Apple
I have no idea. But the title is catchy, and I’m hoping to learn the answer by a) writing out my thoughts and b) you. The transaction went down in July but was only uncovered recently, causing a day long brouhaha on the blog circuit, and now it...
