Relocating iTunes music on Windows
Problem: On my corporate image Windows XP laptop, “My Documents“, “My Photos“, “My Music” etc. secretly live on my (uber redundant, backed up, etc) network home directory. That’s a great idea for most things, but when I’m away from the…

Removing default “division” and “region” options from MOSS 2007
I had read this in Scot Hillier’s book but I couldn’t find it in the index or quickly Google it up today so here goes for future reference. When you create a SharePoint “portal” site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server…
Upgrading sfGuardPlugin for symfony 1.1
Last week I upgraded my first symfony 1.0 project to symfony 1.1 following the UPGRADE file that comes with symfony 1.1 The first part of the upgrade went pretty smoothly, but my project broke due to the sfGuardPlugin. There weren’t…
The intranets! Let them in! Let them play!
I just released bhLDAPAuthPlugin to the world with permission from my employer. I’ve been using symfony (“PHP on Rails”) for about a year at work for a few intranet projects, and over and over I have needed to use our…
Synchronizing Hiveminder with Outlook
Whee. I finally did it, though it’s been on my list for a couple years. I wanted to use the sweet todo-ticketing goodness of Hiveminder.com, but my mesozoic Palm T|X handheld was holding me back, and I’ve got several reasons…