I received an alert from my Synology RAID regarding a few bad sectors on a hard drive. Even though the RAID is still operational, it’s best practice to replace the hard drive before any data gets corrupted due to the bad sectors.

Who can blame jQuery for not wanting to support Internet Explorer? Despite whatever the reason, it doesn’t always make business sense and we must support it. I found this piece of code that patches the issue with jQuery.

A little Gearman cookbook I put together for Chef. Supports installing multiple versions by source. Also has a recipe for the PHP extension.

Grab it from GitHub!

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Install vagrant-omnibus:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

Configure your Vagrantfile before provisioning to the latest version of Chef:

config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

You can also upgrade to a specific version like so:

config.omnibus.chef_version = "11.12.8"

Here’s a quick cheat sheet for lots of design patterns. The examples in this post are linked to Java examples however they are not limited to a single language implementation. Special thanks to Derek Banas.

Dump You can dump the database locally using the following mongodump: mongodump --host DATABASE_HOST --port PORT -d YOUR_DATABASE_NAME -u YOUR_DB_USERNAME -p YOUR_DB_PASSWORD This will create a dump folder containing a subfolder named after your database. The default port for MongoDB is 27017. Import You can import the same dump to a local MongoDB instance using something like the following mongorestore after changing into the dump directory: mongorestore --host DATABASE_HOST --port PORT -d DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_TO --drop DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_FROM Note: This will drop the collections in the DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_TO database before restoring the same collections from your database dump.

If you’re given a Windows network path such as \\Foo\Bar then that basically means connect to shared folder Bar on the server Foo. To do this, you can go Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server... and type smb://Foo/Bar which is the equivalent.

Unfortunately you can’t on a Panasonic VT25. Someone managed to forget about that feature on the Netflix app. Weird because it’s there for YouTube, Pandora, Amazon, etc… The only way you can is by resetting your TV to the factory settings and starting from scratch. You’re wrong if you think you can just log into your Netflix account and click the unlink all devices link from your profile. On the plus side… Never mind, there is no plus side.

The iOS Simulator is obviously a must have tool for development. Web development is no exception but Apple makes you jump through a few hoops (Xcode) to get to it. Luckily you can run it as a standalone application.

I kept getting the following message when I tried running svn commands on my computer. I tried to accept the certificate permanently with no luck:

Error validating server certificate for 'https://subversion.assembla.com:443':
 - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
 - Hostname: *.assembla.com
 - Valid: from Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:31:17 GMT until Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:30:40 GMT
 - Issuer: http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, GoDaddy.com, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, US
 - Fingerprint: ec:9f:9d:b2:39:e1:34:81:7b:27:f6:51:30:8b:ac:41:5b:62:09:19
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?