Your Disk Cannot Be Partitioned Because Some Files Cannot Be Moved Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format the disk as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.

Note that I said this is a possible solution. That means that this may not work for you. Most of the solutions I found on the Internet point to using defrag tools like iDefrag. I didn’t want to go that way cause I really don’t have the money to buy those tools.

Here’s what I did to fix this error:

1. Clean up the hard drive. Move large files to an external backup disk. There are tools like OmniDiskSweeper to that can help in finding large files.
2. Reboot and boot up using your Mac OS X Install DVD. (Press C when after the startup sound to boot using the DVD)
3. Choose Utilities > Disk Utility in the menu and Repair the hard drive.
4. Restart and try partitioning using Boot Camp again.

I’m not ultimately sure if Step 1 is really required but I don’t have time to test it again.

1. Open up your Start Menu

2. Type this in the quick search/launcher (see image for reference):

   notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
   

3. Hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter to launch Notepad with admin privileges. Click Yes on the dialog that will pop up.

4. Modify hosts file and save :)

Done! You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter trick for other apps that need to be launched as admin.

Ignoring funny ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)' locally

It seems to happen when 2 people push to origin/master at almost the same time. This makes Dropbox update the same file and seems to be the cause of the error. When this happens, you can bet that one of the people who did the push will lose his changes to origin/master. So you’ll have to fix it accordingly.

The “funny ref” error does not have any critical effect on the repo and Git seems to work perfectly. It will just annoy you every time you try to fetch. It turns out that this "master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)" is a branch in the main repo. Simply deleting it will remove the error. In terminal, go to your main repo’s (Dropbox) root folder:

git branch -d "master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)"

If you’re not sure of the name of the conflicting branch, you can execute git branch to show all branches. There should at least be a “master” branch and your conflicting branch.

Yeah so I’m a little late on this. Primarily because I’m no designer and I don’t use Photoshop that much. But I just found out that the Extract filter has been removed from CS4. Or maybe CS3 too? I didn’t notice until I needed to use it at work today where I just had to take out some cats and dogs out of their backgrounds.

So, with some googling I found this article by John Nack. There he explains why they took Extract and other filters/plugins away. I still wish they retained Extract though, it’s kinda useful for us noob Photoshop users :p Thankfully you can still install the missing features. Just follow these steps:

1. Download the plugins package. Download here for Mac, and here for Windows.
2. In the package you should find 3 language folders. Open the one you need (ie English) and copy the child folder named Goodies and paste it somewhere safe like the Photoshop application folder. That’s /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac and somewhere in C:/Program Files/ for Windows (sorry I can’t be too precise).
3. Open Photoshop. Go to Preferences > Plug-Ins. Find a setting named Additional Plug-Ins Folder and set that to the Goodies folder.
4. Restart Photoshop.

That should do it.

So I whipped up my old resume, and copied and pasted some infos into Emurse. The data entry forms were superbly made using AJAX. It took me a minute or two to find the Save button, and a minute to realize that they were already saved on the fly. Cool. Almost everything is done in Javascript. Additional entry forms are created on the fly without refreshing the page. You can even add, remove, and re-order sections. I would have been finished in less than 10 minutes, if not for the evil perfectionist side in me. When you’re done filling up forms, clicking on the Design page will lead you to a preview of what your online resume will look like. Or if you want to change your template, you can do that as well.

Pretty much all data that you will need can be placed in your online resume. Here’s my online resume in Emurse. There’s also an option to save your resume into a Doc or PDF file and other formats. But I couldn’t get that to work though. All in all, Emurse is very easy to use and manage. Updating your resume could never be easier. No more formatting headaches in your word processor. And you can email it as a link to companies that you apply to. This ensures that they are getting your latest resume.

My only problems with Emurse is I couldn’t achieve the format of my online resume to what I have now. And I have specific data such as my projects experiences that I want to be more presentable and easier to read. For me, the projects experiences are the highlights of a developer’s resume. Maybe a good additional feature would be for users to create custom formats. XSLT? Nevertheless, I still recommend Emurse to everyone. There are still other useful features that the service provides. So check it out.

I got the posts from the old WordPress install transferred. Well, there’s still lots of things I have to do here but I’m calling it a night.

So, I’ve decided to focus more on these technologies > .Net, Ruby on Rails, and AJAX. And maybe a little Java here and then. To start with that focus, I’ve just recently transferred to a .Net hosting and I’m currently looking in to transfer this WordPress blog to a .Net alternative. Probably a CMS or another blog engine. From all my extensive research, I’ve reached to these final three: DotNetNuke, Umbraco, and BlogEngine.

DotNetNuke seems to have a large following, but it seems to be bloated and I had a hard time trying to find an installation manual. Looks like the manual is greatly hidden in their forums. Well, I’m not going that road. Forums are just too messy for my taste. Even though I got it installed in the end, that took a lot of google searches. Well, the default theme isn’t exactly presentable in this Web 2.0 age. I think they really need to update that one.

BlogEngine seems to be a very powerful blogging engine. My friend John got it installed here, and I didn’t hear any complaints about the installation so I think this is really a good candidate. It even has a “tag” feature already. I’m pretty sure my default install of WordPress didn’t have that.

My last and looks like will gonna be my choice in this dilemma is Umbraco. I’ve just gone up to reading everything in their site right now and I’m liking it already. Next step is to try and get this installed in my machine. Let’s see how easy it’s gonna be and if it’s compatible with my hosting. I’m looking forward to a CMS than a blog-focused software cause I’m gonna put up a site in a subdomain for an open source software that I’ve been planning on working for months now.

Before I was mostly The Evangelist, I was The Ninja. Code and code all day long until the next day. I remember good ol’ iThink days when my working schedule was 8am to 6am. I was a lone warrior, and still am in times of need. From The Ninja’s description “The Ninja is your team’s MVP, and no one knows it.”, yep, I do get that every time. We ninjas don’t get rewarded or credited for our work. We don’t need it. But in the real world, an employee does need it sometimes. That’s part of management principles’ “taking care of your employees”. This is actually my main reason why I’m thinking of going back to designing (web design and flash dev) which I was really good at in college. People in designing get noticed and are rewarded greatly like my friend, Mike, who’s getting 25k every month. Cool.

The Theoretician. I am a researcher, a scientist by heart. Always finding the true solution which is never there. That is, for me there is no true solution or real truth in the IT field. Makes me wonder why Computer Science is called a science. As Grissom said, Science is about truth. Right, but that’s another story. Being The Theoretician I believe is both my bad and good quality. I get distracted easily, especially when I’m debugging another programmer’s code which is very very low down in the optimization department. Or is just downright dirty, wrong, and full of loopholes. In the end, I redo or fix the code which took a lot of time and effort. Very bad if you’re in a deadline, and good if you have nothing else to do or can’t do nothin’ for that matter. For the uninitiated, this is type of work is called refactoring. Nevertheless, I take pride in what I do. Except those code that I had to slip in when I only have 5 minutes to do it. ^_^x

Being a combination of The Ninja, The Evangelist, and The Theoretician has made me always love to be in the Research & Development department. If such as department really exists. I am a framework and software engineering addict. Microsoft Enterprise Library, NUnit, Joomla!, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, SubSonic, and Castle Project are just one of the few things I’ve been to. And I’m still not quite satisfied. SiteCore, ZendFramework, and CodeIgniter are my next targets. Yum, yum. So many things to do, so little time.

How about you? What type of programmer are you?

It’s still a consulting company, roughly the same as the other companies I’ve been in. The difference with Jairo though is that most of the projects are in eCommerce. For these specific projects, we customize an off-the-shelf eCommerce solution named AspDotNetStorefront for our clients. It’s built on .NET and SQLServer. This is actually my first time being heavily involved with eCommerce. And this is also where I learned and used a lot of XSLT and XPath since they’re part of the knowledge needed in customizing AspDotNetStorefront besides learning the solution framework. It’s a great experience indeed.