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Common issues caused by bonjour with Teleport: Teleport not connecting Teleport not showing the accept prompt Teleport only able to connect in one direction and not the other Teleport can’t reconnect Making sure Bonjour is working Messages.app > Preferences > Accounts > Bonjour > Enable Bonjour instant messaging (on both computers) Locate your other computer in the buddy list (⌘1) and send a message between computers. Disable Teleport on both computers Restart both computers (sorry) Enable Teleport on both computers and hopefully connect

If you need read only access to a google docs spreadsheet it’s much faster and easier to use an exported version. Just go to File > Download As > Web Page and it’ll open a new window with the fully loaded spreadsheet. Here’s a public spreadsheet if you want to try it out.

I recently built a 3rd party Facebook app for iOS that makes your Facebook feed look like your twitter feed Check it our for free in the app store.

At Starbucks or McDonalds, on airplanes, at libraries or anywhere else they have free wifi you get popups asking you to accept terms and conditions and click a [Connect Now] button. If you ever have problems getting these screens to display it’s almost certainly because you’re using non-default DNS servers. The solution for me was to go to System Preferences > Network and create a new Location called “Default DNS”. ...

For most bottleneck debugging Chrome Inspector’s profiles view in invaluable until a bottleneck is identified and then it becomes a bit cumbersome. I like to have a quicker overview of the piece i’m working on optimizing. I use this small and easy timer snippet. var timer = { start: function() { timer.t = new Date().getTime(); }, log: function(str) { str = str ? str : 'Execution time: '; console.log(str + ((new Date().getTime()) - timer.t)); } }; //Example (function() { //... timer.start(); //... timer.log('first landmark passed: '); //... timer.log('second landmark passed: '); //... })();

I’m not sure what this will mean for sales but really cool either way. Check it out in the app store

The VM for the Bitnami Ruby Stack doesn’t have the correct credentials for postgres anywhere that I could find. Incorrect credentials that I saw on the Bitnami site, in the docs hosted on the VM, or on the internet while searching for a solution: user: root pass: user: root pass: root user: administrator pass: bitnami user: bitnami pass: bitnami user: postgres pass: user: postgres pass: bitnami user: postgres pass: postgres I never found the correct combination but instead simply installed postgres via apt-get and moved the bitnami postgres installation outside of $PATH in case I need it in the future. ...

Custom cursors in an external CSS file will 404 in Internet Explorer unless your using fully qualified urls. This effects IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10. What is happening Internet Explorer for some ungodly reason treats relative font paths as relative to the page, not relative to the CSS File. My Fix You can fully qualify the URL for all clients but I work offline often so I’d rather have Chrome referencing my dev server rather than the production CDN. Normally I’d turn to CSS hacks here but there’s nothing easy to include inline for IE10. I ended up using the ie class which is added via javascript onReady because IE10 doesn’t support conditional comments. ...

DS_Store files in git repositories is a minor problem for a lot of people. Global .gitignore files are a great solution to not commiting DS_Store files but it won’t actively remove them from your project directories. This is my shortcut for git status: function s() { find . -name '*.DS_Store' -type f -delete #find and delete DS_Store files git status -s -b #s - simple output, b - include branch name }

I built a simple iOS match game for my kids that addresses a few common shortcomings of existing kids apps and then themed it when they wanted more animals. Differences that I felt were important: There’s nothing to distract from the gameplay. I don’t do promotions, ads, in app purchases or even more inocuous things like a start button or settings page. If the app is open, it’s ready to play. No sounds. My kids love to play with the vibration toggle on my phone and being able to give them something to play with that definitely won’t make noise has been very helpful at times. All 3 are universal apps so it’s not necessary to buy it again on the iPad. The Apps Animal Match View in App Store ...