My thoughts on Hacking

Middle Management for Your Heroku Workers

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Heroku provides a highly scalable background worker framework, but leaves the burden of scaling it to the user. Middle Management automatically scales Heroku workers so that your jobs gets worked off as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

Wake Machine

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Wake Machine enables Time Machine to backup to a target that is sleeping. Without Wake Machine, such backups will fail because the remote disk won’t mount.

Use Time Machine with Wake on LAN to Enable Network Backups to Sleeping Devices

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Time Machine is a great backup solution for Mac users, but backups will fail if the backup disk is attached to a sleeping computer on the network. This utility fixes that problem by sending a WOL “magic packet” to wake the remote computer before the backup begins.

Installing MySQL via MacPorts on Snow Leopard for Ruby Development

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A way to install MySQL via MacPorts on Snow Leopard

Keep Your Play Counts and Statistics When Moving Your iTunes Library

Friday, October 24, 2008

You can move your iTunes library without losing any statistics or other metadata.

Remove My Bluetooth Places from Your Desktop

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Removing “My Bluetooth Places” from your desktop is easy but hidden. Here’s what to do.

Get Gmail Email on Your Palm TX

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Getting Google’s Gmail client up and running on the Palm TX is both quick and easy.

Hacking Verizon: Free Mobile Web on the LG VX 8600

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Any Verizon customer can tell you the company mantra: if the customer wants it, make them pay for it. Verizon’s mobile web is no exception: by disallowing the user to change certain settings on the LG VX8600 phone, they effectively force him to use Verizon’s mobile web service, or none at all. Long story short: [...]