Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Shell Aliases

There's a discussion going on at NSLog(); containing tips about shell aliases. I keep going back, so I thought I'd add it to my blog.

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iPhoto Library Manager

User's of Apple's iPhoto software will notice that the responsiveness of the application is a function of the number of images (or size) of the photo Library. Once my Library contained over 1000

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Happy Birthday Lance!

Lance Nicolas Henderson, born May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m. 3.8 kg and 52 cm. Mother, sister, Lance and daddy all doing great!

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Cnet Article about the Apple Music Service

As mentioned on Macintouch, a Cnet column titled "Steve Jobs's Half Note", Evan Hansen writes that the iTunes Music Store's innovation falls far short of the ideal for an online music distribution

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Test Driven Development

Interesting article about test-driven development based on an interview with one of my preferred software development authors, Martin Fowler.

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World’s Worst Banking Website

bbrown discovered what must be the world's worst looking bank website. Check out the breathing blob.

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Music Encoding Options

Over on Macintouch, there's a lot of discussion ongoing about music encoding -- Which is better AAC or MP3? What bit rate is required for sufficient quality? How does the LAME encoder compare to the

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Málaga Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship

Tonight was the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) championship in Malaga, Spain, in which three BJJ academies competed, Málaga, Marbella (where I train) and Granada. The good news (sorta), I finished

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Goodbye VersionTracker

Goodbye VersionTracker, Hello MacUpdate!

Given the atrocious visual design of the VersionTracker.com website, coupled with the arrogant attitude of their staff towards the user comments on the new

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ddclient for DynDNS.org

We use the DynDNS.org service for DNS management of some of our hosts behind non-fixed-IP ADSL connections, and had (until now) used the MacOS X-based DNSUpdate client. This client proved a bit too

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