Trey Connell

TextMate is a very popular text editor with a lot of features and "bundles" (think "plugins") that runs on Mac OS X. TextMate contains an often overlooked feature for creating nice html versions of your code for display on your site. In order to do this,...

I recently needed to write a quick and dirty script in Ruby to generate 301 redirect lines in an .htaccess file for this site.  The reason being I changed my permalink structure (ack!) and needed to clean up all the 404's showing in Google's Webmaster...

I read maclife.com and yesterday's story titled "One Multi-Touch Screen to Rule Them All" caught my eye. I immediately began thinking I was going to see real evidence of Apple's version of the tablet PC. After creating the iPhone and iTouch, it would seem...

Update: I've now decided that Firefox 3 is not reliable enough to use as my default browser so I've switched back to Safari. It's extremely slow to connect to most sites, and sometimes it won't connect at all while Safari connects and renders the page...

My movie site is coming along well so far. We've made lots of progess on all the core functionality you would expect to see: Movie information Reading movie reviews Creating movie reviews Seeing new members and their activity Rating...

This is pretty hilarious stuff from Zero Punctuation. It may be the best video game review I've ever...

Bookmarking and sharing to social media sites has become a content management standard nowadays. Each story you post should allow your users to email it to their friends or post it to such sites as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, del.icio.us, reddit, digg...

Apple's iLife 09 Hardware Up-to-Date program lets you get a copy of iLife 09 for $9.95 plus tax if you purchased a qualifying computer on or after January 6, 2009. I was able to get a copy for my new MacBook for a total of $10.77 (including tax). You...

UPDATE from ABC (1/27/2009): The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France... ABC News has learned that Monday officials of...

I picked up a new MacBook this past weekend after my MacBook Pro bit the dust. This is absolutely the best laptop I've ever owned. The 13.3" screen size is perfect because the MacBook is light and easy to roam around the house with. It also doesn't take...

If you spend a lot of time on sites like Twitter, you have seen how URL compression is used to shorten very long URLs into smaller, more user-friendly URLs. I had been using a few web sites to shorten URLs, and it dawned on me that I really needed a slick...

I'm not sure "unfollowing" is a real world - or "unfollow" for that matter. Scrabble anyone? Anyway, I've noticed one of the major PITA tasks you have to do in Twitter is to constantly go through the list of people that you're following and unfollow...