Life in the Matrix...

Resizing a VirtualBox Disk (VDI)… revisited

jadawin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:01:36 +0000

About two years ago I had to resize a Virtualbox VDI disk, at the time the only way I found to achieve this involved gparted and messing with partitions and stuff I don’t even recall anymore. If you are interested for some reason it is still here. Now, apparently, there is a tool that comes [...]

How Drupal is responsible for my current misery

jadawin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:37:00 +0000

After many years developing websites using joomla! and not being particularly satisfied with it, I’ve finally decided to try out Drupal. Drupal has a completely different philosophy that I’m still just getting acquainted with, nevertheless it’s awesomeness immediately shows through. Basic thoughts I had tried out Drupal back in the 2006 days and although it [...]

iOS launch crash with reference to “setValue:forUndefinedKey:”

jadawin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:23:56 +0000

Just found that I need to be really careful when refactoring code that requires me to remove views from my project. I spent about 15 minutes trying to understand what the hell was going on, I was just receiving the following error: I tried completely deleting my project from the device and simulator, running it [...]

Starting out on iOS development and the fear of failing in Programming

jadawin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:54:54 +0000

For the last month or so I’ve been trying to get my foot into iOS development. This has proven more difficult than I had anticipated mostly because of my lack of spare time to dedicate to such endeavor. One thing I’ve come to realize is that even though I’ve been programming for a couple of [...]

Fixing CLSQL on OSX 10.5.8

jadawin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:31:00 +0000

I recently had the need to run some older Lisp code on OSX 10.5.8 which used CLSQL, unfortunately this was enough to cause me a couple of lost hours trying to compile and load the CLSQL helper libraries.

Setting up Lisp & Hunchentoot on a web server

jadawin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:35:59 +0000

For this post i decided to explain how i’ve setup Common Lisp Hunchentoot webserver running on Ubuntu 8.10 and how to set it up for remote interaction using Emacs and SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs). Obviously i couldn’t have done it all by myself, these are the documents i used as reference for [...]

Showing hidden and *nix files on OSX Finder

jadawin — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:45:12 +0000

Coming to OSX from a Linux background it struck me hard that there isn’t a single Finder preference/option to allow me to see files starting with a dot (hidden files) in Finder listings. Knowing that this is probably due to security concerns that not-so-advanced users will mess up their whole system, nevertheless i believe Finder [...]

LGE-500 Hackintosh

jadawin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:04:45 +0000

I always wanted to give Apple’s OsX a test-drive, it always appealed to me as the best looking Operating System out there but i would never throw away all that money without first giving it a real test-drive. When some of my colleagues got their hands on their macbooks and started bragging about how great [...]

Resizing a VirtualBox Disk (VDI)

jadawin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:13:30 +0000

While installing some software on my virtual machine i ran out of disk space so i went out googling and found a nice tutorial. I don’t really like doing this, kind of pasting someone else’s article but, since i keep this blog mainly as a reference to myself and i believe i will most surely [...]

Solving Gmail IMAP error ‘Web login required (Failure)’

jadawin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:41:15 +0000

At work we have been using Google apps to host some of our customers domain e-mail accounts. The other day one of our customer collaborators complained that when accessing e-mails through IMAP (on Outlook 2007) he was getting the following error: After repeatedly checking his IMAP settings i decided it was not a problem with [...]