Monthly Archives: January 2010

Commuting Alien on Park Avenue

Earlier this week I stopped for a red light on Park Avenue. Like most mornings, it was a school of yellow taxis and me, and a few other hardy bikers. Temperatures were in the 20′s and I was sporting a functional but perhaps hilarious look. I snapped this after fumbling my camera out and raising [...]

tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

Got this? Try using the latest SLF4J version. I upped to 1.5.10 and it resolved it. For more details, see Adam’s post in this thread: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?p=2400801

Carpe frigidum diem

Not sure if my Latin is correct, but my meaning was to seize the coldest day. I just got into the office after a fantastic but normal morning commute. My bike is leaning against the wall by the window, and I’ll feeling way too warm under all the layers I’m wearing. Hard to believe I’m [...]

How to make MySQL 5 work on Snow Leopard

I was frustrated to discover that my working MySQL 5 installation stopped working when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Here’s what I did to fix it: Uninstall the old copy Install the 64-bit version from the MySQL site Install the two packages (a separate one for the StartupItem) and copy the prefs pane to /Library/PreferencePanes/. [...]

Adding AppleScripts to Finder Toolbar

Love this: save your script anywhere you want as an Application (I’ve started using a Scripts folder under my home directory). Drag the icon up into the Finder toolbar area and it’s available everywhere. I got this from a wonderful script for launching iTerm and changing to the current directory in it here. So you [...]

Getting SecureClient working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Update for late 2010: I found the newer release of SecureClient (R56 HFA2 Build 015) now works natively with Snow Leopard. The original post follows in case it’s still useful for anyone: This is one of those posts you do in the hope that it will save someone else from the pain you’ve gone through. [...]