DevOps is, in many ways, an umbrella concept that refers to anything that smoothes out the interaction between development and operations. However, the ideas behind DevOps run much deeper than that.

Design patterns are optimized, reusable solutions to the programming problems that we encounter every day. A design pattern is not a class or a library that we can simply plug into our system; it’s much more than that. It is a template that has to be implemented in the correct situation.

Pretty good article for beginner’s on using design patterns in PHP and how they can make your life easier.

Screenshot from ESPN NHL front page:

Pretty simple using a rounded rectangle and layer effects. Nothing too complex but I just saw a similar button on a different site and wanted to see if I could reproduce it.

Today the problem was popping up quite a bit and I got frustrated and searched for a fix. After trying a few different things the following worked for me:

1) Open up Keychain Access (located in your Application > Utilities folder).

2) Find your mail account login items (searching for ‘mail’ may help you find them).

3) Double click each item to bring up the login item properties box.

4) Select the ‘Access Control’ tab.

5) Select the ‘Allow all applications to access this item’ option button.

6) Click the ‘Save Changes’ button. You’ll be prompted to enter your logon password to confirm the change.

After I did the above on each POP account login Mail didn’t give me any more problems. I’m using Mail 4.2 and Snow Leopard.

Hopefully this information will help someone else out.

Fonts seen in the example are Hill House and Kulminoituva.

Just go to this site and download the action file. Install into Photoshop, open your image, and play the action and you’re good to go.

1) Right click in the ‘Events’ panel at the lower left of the iMovie screen and make sure ‘View Events By Volume’ is checked. This will list all volumes available for archiving/reading events.

2) Just drag the events you want to archive to your backup volume (USB drive, Time Capsule, etc.) and iMovie will move them for you nicely.

One disadvantage of this is that anytime you want to work with or play projects that depend on the events you moved, you’ll need to make sure your backup volume is accessible. You’ll see a little yellow caution sign on any project that uses event clips that are not available.

I was tempted to move all my files via the Finder but I’d recommend staying away from this method as iMovie is not aware that you’re moving the files.