January 2010
3 posts
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Editing Bookmarks in Chrome for Mac OS X
I’m a huge fan of Google Chrome for Mac OS X. It’s painfully fast and lightweight (especially when compared to Firefox); however, it’s still very much in beta. One place this has become glaringly obvious is the lack of a bookmark manager.
One way around this limitation is to edit the Bookmarks file located in:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Editing...
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Notify (or why I
I love Gmail, I really do, but it can be frustrating to always be tied to a web application. I tried using Fluid to give my email experience more of a desktop-y feel, and I even wrote a nifty userscript to display a Growl notification when you receive a new email. It worked for the most part, but high memory usage rendered the fluid app painful unpleasant to use, and I eventually abandoned the...
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Coping With MySQL Slave Lag
DISCLAIMER: I do sysadmin work out of necessity, not by choice. Your mileage with these suggestions may vary. As always, exercise caution when making changes to your application’s architecture.
Background
When scaling your MySQL-based web application, setting up multiple databases in a master-slave configuration can be a great way to distribute load. The procedure is well documented, and...