the thinkpod

Setting up PHP, MySQL, and Friends on Mac OS X Lion

I just found this lifesaver post on “akrabat.com”, about how to do it all. Just thought maybe you would use it as well. http://akrabat.com/php/setting-up-php-mysql-on-os-x-10-7-lion/

Setting up SSH keys

Here's a short tutorial showing how to set up SSH authorized keys.

Sitting in a hotel room in a remote village …

Sitting in a hotel room in a remote village looking at all man does, the massacre, the pillage I look at you taking on the life, daring the devil standing on just one foot on the window sill your pink and white gown as sharp as it goes against the wind that’s playing with your [...]

Back again

After a couple of crazy months on the uni campus, here I am, again with different things on my mind, and again with loads of new stuff to do. ...

Springland Conquered

Springland has been already conquered, despite the fact that I totally forgot about this blog thing.Things have been proceeding in my life like crazy. I don’t even know who I am anymore But I have written lots of programs in Spring and Maven. I have not yet, however, used Spring RC to develop rich client [...]

A Journey to Springland

As I immersed myself deeper and deeper in the depthless sea that is Spring Rich Client, and despite Chris Parsons’ extremely helpful tutorial on the subject, I found myself at a loss. So, I am going to learn more about what Spring itself does and how it actually works. Having done that, I will make [...]

THE Blog Client for Mac?

The past few days have been a very critical time for my blogging experience. I have been trying different blog clients for Mac, and I was slowly, albeit surely, coming to the conclusion that there is no good blogging client for Mac. On my Windows 7 PC, I used to blog with Microsoft Windows Live [...]

Dead Man

And I killed a dead man, once upon a time, It was a hired kill, and it cost’ just a dime, A very cheap feat, kicking a man who’s down, But hey people, I’ve since then grown, Now I only kick them when they’re up and standing, And – okay, I admit – when they’re [...]

Finding My Inner Mac

Hello everybody out there! About two weeks ago, I bought my very first MacBook. It’s not much better than my old VAIO Z, hardware-wise. But man, can it work. The OSX runs in about twenty seconds and the logon process takes about 5 seconds (compare it to a 95 second startup time on Windows 7). [...]

War On Iran