The Folks over at Fournova have been hard at work developing their Tower Git management tool. I have said it before, and I’ll continue to admit it, I am not a hard core programmer.  I am just a finance guy that likes to use my computer to make my life easier so when I find great tools to help me do that I will share it with you.  That said, Git is an awesome tool and Tower is a great front-end gui for Git.   Tower was released early this year and the team at Fournova has continued to push out updates to make the product better.  I was very excited to see the Plugin for Coda yesterday as I...

Since Microsoft does not make a native version of SQL Server Management Studio for the Mac I have been forced to run it under Parallels which works but sometimes can be a bit cumbersome. RazorSQL came up in my search as a great way to duplicate the functionality of SQL Enterprise Manager from a native mac application. I really like Querious but it does not connect to MS SQL Server. I’ve used to extensively the past few days on a project and it seems to be friendly to both hard core programmers and know enough to be dangerous folks like myself.   I have found the simple double click to...

I love my Mac and I love Google Apps but the two do not coexist very well.  Apple Mail (the default mail client) does not like the archive vs. delete options that Gmail does so well.  Actually, it does not do it period.  There are a ton of work arounds you can find on Google for ways to turn your delete button into an archive button and then the Junk Mail button into the delete button.  This is just plain silly.  I want an archive button and a delete button just like in Gmail.   Am I asking for too much? After a long search it turns out I wasn’t.  Postbox is the answer to this little...

Upon graduating from college I took a temp job with a local business doing basic accounts receivable reconciliations and research.  The job w as rather mundane and uneventful but it did leave a scar on me.  My assignment manager was a super nice lady th at was very experienced and likely overworked.  Her office was deplorable! The first time I walked in I was stopped about two feet in the door by stacks, upon stacks of paper printouts from the GL.  She instructed me to have a seat and I politely moved a stack from the chair and placed it at her direction upon another stack.  Gingerly stepped over...

I lost my Magento admin password and the server was not configured to send email so I  was stuck in a bind.  Of course I turned to Professor Google for help.  Most of the instructions would not work for me since I cannot send mail from my server and I am not a MD5 Hash expert. Then I found this little nugget of wisdom in a Magento Forum: UPDATE admin_user SET password=CONCAT(MD5(‘qXpassword’), ‘:qX’) WHERE username=’admin’; Fire up PHPmyAdmin and run this SQL command changing password to whatever you wish, change admin to your username. The qX can also be...