When you’re doing development work on an OS X box and need to shuttle your files to a web server, you’ll notice that the Finder (OS X’s equivalent of Windows Explorer) hides “dot files” like the all-important .htaccess files used by many web applications. You can tell the Finder to show you all files, including…
An ASP port of Cp2DB
I wanted to thank Ian Meinert for creating an ASP/SQL Server version of Cp2DB, my PHP/MySQL reporting solution for Adobe Captivate. He has documented his changes to the code in a series of blog posts: Publishing Captivate to SQL using ASP, Part I Continuing with Captivate Publishing Captivate to SQL using ASP, Part III Publishing…
The Wrong Side of History
I’ve pretty much given up listening to the radio. Thanks to the iPhone and this gadget, my morning and afternoon commute is filled either with music or podcasts, my longtime favorites being This American Life, The Moth, and Philosophy Bites. But I happened to turn on the radio on my drive home Friday, and a story…
Testing Captivate 5 with VMware Fusion 3
On the Adobe Captivate Forums, someone asked if Adobe Captivate 5 for Mac OS X could be used to capture Windows applications running via VMware Fusion 3. It was a good question, so I decided to give it a test. In both cases, what you see here is raw output from a simple capture in…