Dallas police officer Robert Powell is a jackass (and probably racist)

From the Dallas Morning News: Jackass “officer” pulls his gun during a traffic stop, then takes 13 minutes to write a ticket. Oh yeah, Moats’ mother-in-law died while he waited for the ticket to be written. Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week …

HOWTO deploy PHP sites with Capistrano 2

When I learned Ruby on Rails, I found out about Capistrano. This whole automated deployment thing seemed pretty neat. But then my Rails project finished, and I was back to working on a PHP site. There I was, coding along in naive bliss. Then I started working on voteforchange.com for the Obama Campaign. Nick and …

HOWTO stop receiving phone books

You can call the following Yellow Pages producers to be removed from their lists: AT&T/YellowPages (formerly SBC/Bellsouth): 800-792-2665 or 800-248-2800 Verizon (Idearc): 888-266-5965 or 800-888-8448 or 800-555-4833 Valley Yellow Pages: 800-350-8887 Dex: 877-243-8339 Yellow Book: 800-373-3280 or 800-373-2324 or 800-929-3556 You can also sign a petition to request that the Yellow Pages Association use an …

HOWTO set the default target in Xcode

Your Xcode project has one or more targets. Each target builds something—a command-line tool, a framework or an application. The Target popup menu lets you determine the active target. The active target gets built when you click “Build” or “Build & Go.” But what about the default target? What is it, and why do you …