array_splice is a wonderful little function. Unfortunately it doesn't preserve the keys if they're numeric. I've tried many combinations of array_shift, array_slice and even array_reverse and array_pop. Here's my solution that preserves numeric keys.

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function array_psplice(&$array, $offset = 0, $length = 1) {
	$return = array_slice($array, $offset, $length, true);

	foreach ($return as $key => $value) {
		unset($array[$key]);
	}

	return $return;
}

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Due to some additional licensing requirements we've been required to add a source to some of our images on MyBankTracker.com. Unfortunately Wordpress captions don't support links, so I wrote a quick filter that you can add to your functions.php file.

Additionally it removes the forced width that Wordpress applies as well.

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// Originally built for http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/
function mbt_img_caption_shortcode($val, $attr, $content = null) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'id'	=> '',
		'align'	=> 'alignnone',
		'width'	=> '',
		'caption' => ''
	), $attr));

	// if it contains a pipe character, we know it's ours
	if (strpos($caption, '|') === FALSE) {
		return;
	}

	$tokens = explode('|', $caption);
	$caption = array_shift($tokens);
	$href = implode('|', $tokens);
	if (!empty($href)) {
		$caption .= ' <a href="' . $href . '" rel="nofollow">source</a>';
	}

	if ( 1 > (int) $width || empty($caption) )
		return $content;

	if ( $id ) $id = 'id="' . esc_attr($id) . '" ';

	return '<div ' . $id . 'class="wp-caption ' . esc_attr($align) . '">'
	. do_shortcode( $content ) . '<p class="wp-caption-text">' . $caption . '</p></div>';
}

// what is 10, 3 for?
add_filter('img_caption_shortcode', 'mbt_img_caption_shortcode', 10, 3);

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For grabbing screenshots we often use iOpus' wonderful Firefox plugin iMacros. Today I opened an old macro and it failed to run. It turns out that it uses the global java object (via LiveConnect) to read and write files, and the global java object was no longer available.

Other error message you may see include, "ReferenceError: java is not defined (Error code: 991)" from iMacros, or simply "ReferenceError: java is not defined" from Firebug or the browser itself.

The simple solution is to check "Enable applet plug-in and Web Start applications" in the Java Preferences app. Use spotlight to find it.

Theories why this happened? Most likely it's because Java for browsers is disabled by default in Mac OS X Lion, so I only noticed this after I upgrade from Snow Leopard.

Another source that confirms my suspicion:

http://sniptools.com/mac-osx/making-java-work-in-browsers-on-mac-osx-lion

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Update: The old method won't work. Here's the new method to kill Facebook chat. The solution is to...

First, Click on "Try It Now" in the chat area.

Second, In the options drop down unselect "Available to Chat".

Original post:

I logged in to my Facebook account tonight and found that I was also logged into chat. I really hate chat, so I searched how to turn off the new Facebook chat. It's really simple, so I hope that Facebook doesn't kill this link. Also, all your chat messages are stored in your inbox.

First, click on this link:
http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

Second, click on the options drop down and go offline!

Bye Bye FB Chat!

Whatever you do...

Do not click on the chat area at the bottom of the screen or you'll be logged in again!

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Instead of using pageTracker._trackEvent(...) to track events, you must instead use _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', ...]).

There are three different options I could have chosen. I ended up choosing the last option.

1. Rewrite all my old pageTracker code to use the new syntax. I.e., change pageTracker._trackEvent(...) calls to _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', ...]);

2. Recreate the pageTracker (which I never verified if this code actually worked)

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var pageTracker = null;
_gaq.push(function() {
 pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-XXXXXXX-X');
});

3. Create a wrapper.

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if (typeof pageTracker === 'undefined') {
  pageTracker = {};
  pageTracker._trackEvent = function() {
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
    args.unshift('_trackEvent');
    _gaq.push(args);
  };
}

This is the option I went with for one simple reason. I already use a variation of this code for logging tracking events when I debug on my localhost. Here is my full version.

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if (typeof pageTracker === 'undefined') {
  pageTracker = {};
  pageTracker._trackEvent = function() {
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
    args.unshift('_trackEvent');
    _gaq.push(args);

    if (typeof console !== 'undefined' && typeof console.log !== 'undefined') {
      console.log('_gaq.push(["' + args.join('", "') + '"])');
    }
  };
}

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<?php
// Recursively traverse the parent child relationships of categories, returning when found the parent with no parents
// $id is the child category, ignore $visited on the first call (based on get_category_parents() in category-template.php)
// Used on: http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/

function mbt_get_category_parent( $id, $visited = array() ) {
	$parent = &get_category( $id );

	if ( is_wp_error( $parent ) )
		return $parent;

	if ( $parent->parent && ( $parent->parent != $parent->term_id ) && !in_array( $parent->parent, $visited ) ) {
		$visited[] = $parent->parent;
		return mbt_get_category_parent( $parent->parent, $visited );
	}

	return $parent;
}

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<?php
// put this somewhere in "The Loop" http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
$category = get_the_category();
$parent = mbt_get_category_parent($category[0]->term_id);

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There is a great post on the Yojimbo google group about how to get Yojimbo working on Dropbox. This allows you to synchronize your notes/passwords/etc over more than one computer.

http://groups.google.com/group/yojimbo-talk/msg/9465b1c53650a2b9

The one snag is that you can only have Yojimbo running on one machine at a time. In order to work around this limitation, I've used the command line tool sleepwatcher to monitor when a computer goes idle. I modified the example plist to configure sleepwatcher to run a script that tells Yojimbo to quit after 10 minutes of idling. 

Download sleepwatcher http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/ and follow the basic instructions in the readme.

Here are the scripts to do it.

The AppleScript code to quit Yojimbo: (place in your home directory ~/)

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#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'tell application "Yojimbo" to quit'

After installing sleepwatcher according to the readme, and creating the above script, we test to see if sleepwatcher is working correctly by issuing the following command. Make sure Yojimbo is open, otherwise it won't close.

$ /usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher --verbose --idle ~/quit_yojimbo.sh -t 100

This should quit Yojimbo after 10 seconds. Next on to the launch agent.

The launchctl plist to run sleepwatcher on launch. (place in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher</string>
		<string>-V</string>
		<string>-i ~/quit_yojimbo.sh</string>
		<string>-t6000</string>
	</array>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Note: -t is for time, which is in units of 0.1 seconds; meaning 10 minutes is 6000, not 600. To install the launch agent, run this command (note: no sudo).

$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility-localuser.plist

Update: one additional side note.

If you have OS X 10.6 and Adobe products on your machine, you may see an error when running osascript for the ~/quit_yojimbo.sh script. If that's the case you can ignore the error, or follow the instructions here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/516/cpsid_51615.html

It shouldn't matter either way.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7007734.ece

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I posted this question on Hacker News.

We're profitable. We've done our homework. We have proven the business model and customer validation. It's scalable and repeatable. But, we'll need a big investment to grow at the scale we want.

We understand that seed investment can open up doors by giving us introductions and preference when finding the right VC, but our revenue is greater than any seed investment that I've seen.

We're more than willing to give up some equity to grow. We just want the right partnership.

Do you need seed investment if your revenue is greater than what a seed can offer? If you skip getting a seed, how likely is it that you'll get the right VC?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084083

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This little blog-o-mine is turning into a rant site. Anyways, I want to order a new suit, but I can't log in using my email address.

Yes. My email address TLD is 4 characters. This just doesn't seem possible that my .name email address is rejected. I first complained about this issue nearly 9 months ago.

http://www.tmlewin.co.uk/

i'm out.

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Here he is posing as Kevin Rose:

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To the above aforementioned parties hereto within heredoc. ...um... heredoc?

Why can't all CMSs work over email?

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