is not so straightforward in today’s age of CDNs, widgets, and font embedded services.

If you have upgraded from Windows 7, you may need to also run delmigprov.exe accompanying the standalone version of that update.

…let alone the main executable of a popular open source development tool.

Skype IM Pretty Printer is a VBA Macro for Microsoft Outlook that helps you format Skype chat excerpts for readability before you email them to someone or store for archival purposes.

Online Python Tutor (OPT) enables first-year CS students to watch the nicely visualized execution of their Python programs step-by-step.

A fresh edX student very much liked OPT but had two problems with its online nature: sometimes the OPT Web site was not responding, sometimes she had no Internet connection. Fortunately, OPT is open sourced on GitHub, so I was able to set it up on her Windows notebook as follows:

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You ain’t need to learn no rc.local, runlevels, Upstart, or good old System V init scripts.

I develop this blog and my other Web properties on Windows PC, but run them on a Linux VPS. This post documents how I set up deployment from Windows to Linux using cwRsync.

An Apache URL rewrite trick to protect large downloadable files from hotlinking. Even though some PHP or CGI scripting is required the files remain served directly by Apache and the properly registered visitors are not affected.

Ever since moving out of my parents’ apartment back in 1996, we would say to each other every once in a while: “We gotta get us something to enjoy music in the kitchen.” So we would have shopped occasionally for a boombox, CD micro system, MP3-enabled, USB-enabled, and most recently for a web radio receiver. And then I realized we only need one simple gadget to finally solve the problem.

I have released a script that I use to import FLAC files into iTunes as Apple Lossless. Download and use or fork it on GitHub.