This is the coolest thing I have seen in a while. I frequently spend time on remote hosts via SSH, some, if not most, of which run sshd on a port other than 22. This resulted in me adding “-p 1234″ to every single ssh command I executed.

Well, no more. Today I stumbled upon SSH config. Just edit your ~/.ssh/config file and add the following to get rid of all those -p’s:

Host myserver.com
    Port 1234

Recently I switched from Opera to Safari, more precisely the Webkit nightlies. The main reason is the great 1Password password manager and form filler that takes care of all my logins and more so that I can be more secure on the web.

One of the main things I missed in Safari that I came to love in Opera are mouse gestures. I checked out the programs most often recommended, but they either didn’t work anymore or cost money now. Until I stumbled upon SafariGestures. It’s a SIMBL plugin (I use PlugSuite instead, either should work) and adds a menu item to your toolbar. From there you can set a plethora of preferences and customize it to your needs.

I actually prefer it over Opera’s mouse gestures; so far it’s been a good switch!

EDIT 4/2010: I have since switched to Chrome due to its speed and given up on mouse gestures. Safari with all the SIMBL plugins seemed just too slow.

Similar to Xdebug, DTrace also didn’t want to work and failed with the same error, so I tried the same trick, and it worked.

Follow the instructions from Lee Packham’s blog but configure it as a 64-bit application:

1. tar xzf dtrace-1.0.3fixtar.gz
2. cd dtrace-1.0.3+fix
3. phpize
4. CFLAGS=’-arch x86_64′ ./configure –with-dtrace
5. make
6. make install

So far so good, the module is loaded. Now let’s see if Instruments will do its thing.

Since I have been struggling with this for forever and finally found an answer, here’s an attempt to spread the wealth knowledge around.

Blog: Compiling & installing Xdebug for PHP 5.2.5 (Entropy.ch build) on OS X 10.5

Just to give the web crawlers some more info, the error message was:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so’ – (null) in Unknown on line 0

The solution is to compile it manually as a 64-bit application like so:

CFLAGS=’-arch x86_64′ ./configure –enable-xdebug

Hope this helps someone out there.

Been battling with IE7 and a JS error I have been getting. We are using Modalbox for modal windows to display relogin information inside TYPO3 starting with version 4.3. In IE7 I have been getting the error “object doesn’t support this property or method” when loading content into the Modalbox.

After lots of trial and error I figured out that it didn’t like the name attribute on an input tag. Removing that, everything works fine now. Hope this will save someone a lot of trouble.

Christoph, who has high hopes in IE8 standards compliancy.

The ultimate in total connectivity: posting a blog from my iPhone and broadcasting that to twitter and facebook at the same time. Wow…

This will demonstrate not one but TWO neat technologies. This post is written on my iPhone with the new wordpress app and should be sent to twitter as well! Let’s see if it works…

By the way, my Twitter username is ckoehler if you’re interested in what I am doing.

This is more a reminder for me than anything, but maybe someone else will benefit from this:

• Print queue: postqueue -p
• Delete all messages from the queue: postsuper -d ALL
• Read a message: postcat -q <queue file id>
• See what shape the queue is in: qshape

I am sure the man pages for each command will give you more info on what you can do with them.

With git being the awesome version control system that it is, I switched to using git-svn for all our Web-Empowered Church extensions. That way I get the easy branching and merging while still being compatible with Subversion and everyone else who’s using it (and who hasn’t seen the light yet…).

Now I have a directory that contains all our wec_* extensions. With Subversion, I could do a simple “svn up *” and it would update all the working copies inside the subdirectories. Unfortunately, git doesn’t do that.

Ruby to the rescue:

!/usr/bin/env ruby

def rebase(dir)
  Dir.chdir(dir) do |path|
      puts "Rebasing #{path}...."
      git svn rebase
      puts "done!\n\n"
  end
end

if ARGV[0].nil?
  dirs = Dir["*/"]
  dirs.each do |dir|
    rebase(dir)
  end
else
  rebase ARGV[0]
end

Just got an email from Opera talking about their new product, Opera Dragonfly. Dragonfly will be a suite of developer tools aimed at, well, web developers. That’s all I know for now, but I sure am excited. They have a countdown on their site counting down to May 6, 2008. I am very excited and will check it out ASAP.

Developer tools have been the only thing still keeping me with Firefox and its Firebug extension. Webkit is shipping with dev tools that are not half bad and beautifully designed, but I have high hopes for Opera dev tools so I can do all my development in one browser.

You can find more info at the launch manager’s blog.