For as long as I can remember my dad has had a wood shop and made odds and ends for family, friends, extended acquaintances, and the like. In Real Life™ he’s a pharmacist, but when he got home most evenings he would tinker around in the garage. I have in my house a stool and a toy chest he made for my kids, a trash can, and two cabinets he made for his sister and mother from glass and wood that came from his father’s pharmacy. He is like my great grandfather in this way. I have a grandfather clock and coffee table that my great grandfather made for my grandfather.

In his interview with Charlie Rose, President Obama is quoted saying:

If you do a lot with Zope and don’t like to have to use Zope’s ZMI editor, external editing is a godsend. Unfortunately the ZopeEditManager application for Mac OS X hasn’t been updated in quite a while. This is fine because it still functions well, but the problem is the most recent binaries are not universal. I don’t have anything else using Rosetta, so I’d prefer not to have to install it.

This is primarily written for myself for posterity, but maybe others might find it useful. I find myself wanting to play with Railo, an Open Source ColdFusion engine. Java on FreeBSD can be quite un-fun, but I’m going to assume a working JDK to start off with.

Let’s see here, what’s the currently supported way to round a datetime to the nearest hour in Cocoa?

One of the more interesting things about xar is the representation of the the Table of Contents (toc) in XML, with the ability to store “subdocs”, or additional XML trees, within the toc. You can easily add your own metadata to a xar file, in addition to its support for a variety of new metadata, including Extended-Attributes, both POSIX and Mac OS X’s.