I’ve created a video to show some of the highlights of PhpStorm and how to use it in your Drupal project. I highly recommend setting up a local development environment with Xdebug. You should watch the HD version of the PhpStorm with Drupal Tutorial Video. Also I have collected some additional resources on how to configure [...]

With the help of Jason Bartley I created my own version of a Luxology modo 501 cheat sheet with all the default hotkeys. I also created a wallpaper version for black and white backgrounds. I prefer the black background because of the reduced overall brightness. I have it on my second monitor and with Exposé on OS [...]

This has been bugging me for some time now. After a few weeks OpenX throws a 500 internal server error everytime I try to login. I have tried all available fixes on the web. But for me it was a different issue. I had debug logging enabled and after some time the file reached a [...]

I have been searching Google up and down just to find some benchmark values for the Drobo and they have been sparse to non existent. Those numbers that exist are either the unverified numbers from Data Robotics 30-40MB/s or those non scientific stopwatch tests without mentioning further setup specs. Altogether this is pretty disappointing. I [...]

The release of the latest iMac line has also spawned a lot of discussions about the necessity of multi-core processors namely quad-core systems. Synthetic benchmarks show the improvements in processor technology but more often than not this does not translate into real world advantages. At least that is what most comments sum it up to. But multi-core especially quad-core systems make sense not just for video and 3D-applications. There is good reason to opt for quad-core instead of dual-core systems.

That took a long time. Quicksilver 1.0b57 is out. Though the version number change is minor it brings some interesting updates. According to the release notes there is a 20% – 40% speed increase, this is all while managing a library of 13k items. The software feels snappier too, which is also an improvement over [...]

According to the Core i5-750 and Core i7-860 specifications it should be possible to run Apple’s latest 27″ iMac with DDR3-1333 RAM instead of the stock DDR3-1066 RAM it gets delivered with. It is not the first time Apple has used customized CPUs, so there’s always a chance that the default specs do not match [...]

Just a quick update for the Apple 27″ iMacs (late 2009). The first benchmark results have arrived for the 27″ iMac Core i5 and 27″ iMac Core i7. Geekbench 2 shows even faster results in 64-Bit mode. I’ve updated the chart to correct a small error because the Core i5 result wasn’t taken with the [...]

This week I had to conduct a two day Photoshop training. While Photoshop is definitely the de facto standard for professional image editing it is nowhere near affordable for home users. One of the attendees asked if there were any alternatives if they wanted to use a tool like Photoshop at home. Which is more [...]

Would it not it be great if you could read a PDF manual like a book and make annotations? Would it not be great if such a software would not cost you a dime? Well Skim is exactly that. A helpful PDF annotation tool which lets you highlight important things and lets you add and [...]