Bonetree Blog

Budgetary Details

Daniel — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:56:26 +0000

Out of curiosity today I decided to look up some information about Canada’s federal deficit (read: how many fucking dollars is it?). I wasn’t sure whether to believe this site or not — its almost sappy, pleading tone (especially the video) didn’t strike me as very genuine — and wouldn’t you know it, it’s pretty [...]

Javascript and CSS compression in CakePHP

Daniel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:56:32 +0000

Just a quick note for all of those looking to optimize their JS/CSS in CakePHP. The awesome Matt Curry put together a CakePHP plugin which makes this incredibly easy. Here is his Asset plugin on Github. It works almost perfectly right out of the box but I ran into a small problem when setting it [...]

A Practical Guide to using PGP in Ubuntu Karmic Koala

Daniel — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:12:44 +0000

As more and more of our data is stored and/or communicated digitally it’s becoming increasingly important for everyone to be aware of their privacy and security. Even though you might think nobody else could possibly be interested in your data, it doesn’t hurt to take some steps to educate yourself on how to protect your [...]

CakePHP Paginator URLs and POST forms

Daniel — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:22:06 +0000

There’s a quote that you often see in the #cakephp channel on irc.freenode.net and it goes something like, “If something is hard in CakePHP, then you’re doing it wrong”. This is proven to me over and over the more comfortable I get with CakePHP. One of the most annoying problems I had as a Cake [...]

How To Enable Half-Star Ratings in iTunes

Daniel — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:15:29 +0000

I have such a large collection of music that 5 stars doesn’t really give me the kind of granularity that I need to rate my music, so I started looking to see if there was a way to tweak that number. I came across this Lifehacker article which explained how to do it on a [...]

How To Make an iPhone Ringtone Using iTunes

Daniel — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:23:29 +0000

Want to make your own iPhone ringtones and avoid paying up for content that you already have? This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to do so using iTunes. I’m using Windows here, but the process is essentially the same if you’re on a Mac. Before you start, you’ll need to set iTunes [...]

Free Open Source Encryption with TrueCrypt

Daniel — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:33:19 +0000

It wasn’t so long ago that most people didn’t really think about encryption. It was something you’d see in the movies, seen as unnecessary to all but the most paranoid or “the government” or military. Even though you might not know it, many of us now rely on encryption every single day. If you’ve ever [...]

SSH authentication via public keys

Daniel — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:53:59 +0000

After my last article dealing with ssh I thought I’d write about another feature that comes in handy. Most people who use ssh probably authenticate by using a password. This is not so bad – unlike with FTP for example, where the password is transmitted plaintext, any password that you send while logging in via [...]

Secure surfing with an SSH tunnel and Firefox

Daniel — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:07:54 +0000

I don’t know where I’d be without OpenSSH. I feel at home at the command line, and use ssh daily for remote access to my servers. When I need to transfer files quickly I use scp, or sftp if I need something a little fancier. Since my desktop machine runs Windows, I use PuTTY and [...]

Configuring Gallery2 to send email using Gmail

Daniel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:26:14 +0000

Update: While this may not have made it into Gallery2 itself, it’s made its way into the Fedora package :) I recently revived my online photo gallery but ran into a problem with sending mail. Unlike most of my other sites, I run this on a box that I have at home, which means that [...]