Command Line Tools for Xcode. It’s a 171 MB download that includes all of the tools a Homebrew should ever need. Best of all, it contains the proprietary headers that I couldn’t ship myself.

You can download and try it out today. All you need is a free Apple ID.

You’ll want to uninstall Xcode first:

$ sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all

Oddly appropriate was Marissa Mayer’s How to Avoid Burnout. I think most of what she says is dead on, but there’s a little more to it. I’ll expand later….

So now under a proposed settlement the retailer can sell the book for whatever discount they want. How is this a free market? And, if the DOJ has now established that the Agency model for eBooks is anti-competitive, doesn’t that wipe out the Agency model for traditional book sales as well?

Ever since I was little I’ve been able to compartmentalize my life. I’ve been able to detach emotionally from the reality that I was living. It’s helped me stay steady in stressful situations. It’s helped me be a rock for others. It’s been one of my biggest assets, and at the same time a slowly growing cancer.

A lot has happened this last year. A lot has happened these last three months. I don’t know what exactly finally did it. What combination of events, what sensation, what experience. What caused my carefully constructed honeycomb to finally break down, to flow fluidly and without control. Only time will tell for sure, but for now the result has become perfectly clear.

I’m tired, I’m exhausted, and I’m burnt out.

I don’t know what exactly to do from here. I’m terrified of letting people down. Only one thing is clear. I need to unplug and recharge for a while, and that’s exactly what I am going to do.

dscacheutil -flushcache

From the terminal

Which brings me to the point of this post. I hate NFS. I hate it passionately. Mostly because I hate the way people use it. Conversations like, “I have 10 dual quad core app servers with 48 gig ram each and all of our images mounted on a P4 2.4 with 4GB ram and some IDE hard drives. Why is our site slow?” My solution – host your user uploaded content on an object store. It doesn’t matter which, just pick one. MogileFS, Amazon S3, SWIFT, etc… They all work great, no single point of failure, and no single hard drive as a choke point. As an added bonus, you can scale and scale and scale.

So what do you do if you want to control your S3 serving costs? Cache your objects with Varnish of course. I found this little tidbit here today and it’s worth saving/sharing for the future.

backend s3 {
.host = "s3.amazonaws.com";
.port = "80";
}

set obj.ttl = 1w;
set obj.grace = 30s;
}

1. “Proper” extension handling for contacts in the address book. I’m sure there is debate on this, but for my purposes a 10 or 11 digit number (NADP) followed by an “x” with an additional sequence of numbers is an extension that should be dialed. I know that the iPhone will enter pause with a comma “,” but that doesn’t help me when we are talking about thousands of contacts in CRM systems. My request:

Add a general setting to the phone that will allow me to customize how long to pause for when an “x” is present in the phone number. When dialing a phone number that has an extension, prompt me if I would like to dial the extension after the call starts.

2. Better match for Caller ID. I have multiple phone identical phone numbers for different contacts. If you haven’t guessed, they all work for the same company. It’s not a good user experiance when one of them calls me and the first person in my address book is listed on the screen as the Caller ID. My request:

When multiple contacts have the same number and that number calls, use the company field as the Caller ID displayed on the screen.

3. The ability to refresh the Calendar(s). This should be self explanitory, when you are looking at your calendar you should be able to manually refresh it and sync any changes.

4. Gmail Archive / Delete Support. Google has completely changed the _standard_ spec for IMAP and how mail servers function. It’s annoying and awesome all at the same time. And if you’re like me, you’re accumulating Gmail accounts faster than you’re getting rid of them. My request:

When configuring a Gmail account (normal or Apps) give me the option of either deleting or archiving the email messages. Give me the ability to only see the Priority Inbox if I want. And give me the ability to mark messages as Spam.

• Disabling APP Notifications
• Disabling Location Services
• Disabling System Services

I found a new one this week – disconnect your AT&T MicroCell. I don’t know what the cause of this one is, but my battery drain slowed to about 25% of the rate before with the MicroCell on. I was never really happy with the MicroCell, and it literally sucks. My reception and call quality is actually better now without it.