Preface At my current job, we have several external systems that interact with Salesforce, and they do so through web-services. This document will cover what I have learned in regards to web-services, caveats with them and common pitfalls. Overview The goal … Continue reading
I’ve taken up the charge to be the so called “Supplemental Wallpaper Wrangler.” With that being said, I want to put call out to everyone to submit supplemental wallpapers for our next release. What are supplemental wallpapers? In addition to … Continue reading
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So with steam coming out on the Mac and with the Humble Indie Bundle working on all three, there is a problem with keeping all of your saves in sync. Not any more. This is all thanks to dropbox. What … Continue reading
I recently challenged myself to come up with a way to make udev automatically backup when you plug in a USB harddrive. I did all my testing with a USB stick drive, but since they both show up as block … Continue reading
Screen is a great tool, and it allows you do to alot of neat things. One of my favorites is binding commands to key strokes. So all you have to do is hit F5 and it will start something in … Continue reading
I’ve come across the need to simply the dvd playing process. I’m having to set up a laptop to play a dvd and use a remote presenter control. Now in the past I’ve just been in charge of this setup, … Continue reading
From what I’ve been able to tell, there is no real version control built into Salesforce.com and this is a problem when pushing from a sandbox instance into a production instance. To fix this problem (at least until Salesforce does … Continue reading
Just setup a TF2 server following this article In Fedora, you need to do the following as root before running any of the commands from the article ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress Now. To figure out how the server.cfg Bookmark on … Continue reading
Prior to starting up the AppleTV or even unboxing it, get your patchstick ready by following these instructions Unbox and setup the AppleTV to your LAN. Then, navigate to the setup->general->updates and make sure you STOP the update if you … Continue reading
Well hello there. My name’s Patrick and I’m a pretty technical guy, and I love technical things.
This is blog about stuff that I’ve discovered while working. I might throw random crap in here, but for the most part it will be pretty technical, and may have random bursts of code.
To learn more about me head over to my aptly names about.me page where you can find all the links to my twitter, website and the like.