Archive for June 2009

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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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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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 […]

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