http://anassina.com/blog My thoughts, your unreserved assent. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:34:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There appears to be no easy way to toggle visibility of hidden files or folders in OS X. This video describes a possible solution that makes use of Automator, Snow Leopard Services, and a small bash script. Here's the code that I used. show_status=`defaults read com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles` if [ $show_status == 'NO' ]; ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=41 It took quite some time, but I have finally started to find value in twitter. It's short messages, sent and delivered in near-realtime with less of the mechanical feel of RSS. It's great...but it won't last. Twitter as a tool, WILL grow beyond Twitter the company. It's quickly becoming a communication ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=40 DHH delivers a great talk about legacy software and why you should be happy when you see it. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3987.html http://anassina.com/blog/?p=38 Late last week Monster.com admitted that its database was "illegally accessed" and that its member's names and passwords were likely stolen. Monster.com the smallest amount of advice it could, "Please change your password". But they should have included the following in their press release: Since our organization does not encrypt our ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=37 JavaScript Best known for it use in client side web application, it was touted as a language that was supposed to be easier to learn than Java for non programmers. It has seen many ups and downs over the last 13 years since it was released, but it has never shown ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=36   It still amazes me to this day that managers refuse to see that developers, or more specifically coders, have requirements that go above and beyond their typical 'office' coworkers. Here's a short list of items that piss me off on a daily basis   Speaker phones for everyone For the love of ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=34 Over the last few months I seem to have spent considerable time discussing, or more accurately arguing which dynamic language should be the choice of Java shops. The argument is really about which is a better framework, Rails or Grails and their respective languages Ruby and Groovy. I'd like to ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=33 With this week's release of the new iPod Touch with its apparent ability to support sound input, it seems rather clear to me that this is the SECOND step Apple is taking to create and provide VoIP based telco services to the world. The FIRST step, of course, was to ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=31 Agile Toolkit Podcast Apple Quick Tips BBC History Magazine Best of Youtube Big Ideas commandN Cranky Geeks BBC World Series Documentaries FLOSS Weekly The Gillmor Gang Google Developer Podcast Great Speeches in History I, Cringely IT Conversations The Mac Observer's Mac Geek Gab MacBreak Weekly The Naked Scientists net@night Pragmatic Podcasts Rails Envy Podcast RailsCasts Real Time with Bill Maher Ruby on Rails Podcast Security Now! The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Systm TEDTalks This Week in ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=30 Fluid is a site specific browser for OS X. It allows you to make desktop applications out of web pages. For example, GMail, GCal and GDocs are generally the first applications people tend to "Fluidize". Indeed, I have created a single Fluid application for my company's office applications. But Fluid provides ... http://anassina.com/blog/?p=27