June 18th, 2009 at 1:03 AM

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iPhone 3.0 upgrade: Google Sync contacts and calender gone!

I just updated my iPhone to the new 3.0 operating system it looks like it emptied the iPhone’s local cache of contacts and calendar entries from Google Sync. To get them synced up and working again just go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’ > [Your Google Sync account] and turn off Contacts and Calendars. […]

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June 16th, 2009 at 3:10 PM

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iTunes Veto: avoid those overplayed new songs

I listen to a stream of The Current almost all day, every day. I love this station, but I cringe every time they play that new Green Day song or when I hear Bono sing, well, anything. No longer! I’ve written a set of Ruby scripts that’ll let me veto away the ugliness so that […]

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June 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 PM

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Controlling execution order of Drupal modules

So lately, this had become a ‘stuff that breaks at work’ blog, but I fear that if I don’t document these, they’ll likely bite me again. And, if the solutions help someone else, then that’s great.
Our team recently launched a large website in Drupal that uses many home-grown modules. I discovered that with certain modules, the […]

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May 21st, 2009 at 10:40 AM

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Ubuntu + Rails + Passenger + OCI8 = Sad

LoadError (Oracle/OCI libraries could not be loaded: libclntsh.so.11.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux/oci8lib.so)
Have you seen this error in your Rails application? Do you hate it as much as I do? I’ve spent the past two days troubleshooting this and I finally found a solution. It’s ugly and hacky, but […]

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March 31st, 2009 at 9:54 PM

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Kamus Kecil

I created www.kamuskecil.com today during lunch as I ate last night’s leftovers in my cube. It’s a stupid-simple, no-frills Indonesian-English dictionary. I’ve been sitting on this data for years now and once had a grand vision for it, but let’s face it; it’s just a dictionary. And, I really only expect one user — myself. So if […]

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