Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Future Blog Posts

In my spare time I've put down a lot of the programming-related stuff I was doing in favor of other things. I started playing guitar a couple of years ago, I started lifting weights (to get better at basketball at first, but now with a focus to compete in strongman) and I started having more of a social life with my girlfriend. So I'm going to broaden my range when it comes to blog posts. No longer will this blog be solely for tech-related topics. I will start writing about various things in my life, which may include lessons I learned on the basketball court, reviews for cafes and restaurants around Melbourne and little tidbits about weight lifting and guitar and music theory.

I always wanted to blog about some of these topics, and I always thought about keeping it to separate blogs. But I've decided that this blog isn't busy enough and doesn't have many (if any) readers, so I'll mix it up with the tech talk.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Dock Stopped Working in OS X?

It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I don't want to have to restart my computer to fix it (or anything, really).

Every now and then, on OS X, my Dock disappears and I can't Cmd+Tab between applications anymore. After a bit of searching around on forums, I found the solution; kill the Dock process from Terminal.

killall -KILL Dock

After killing the process, a new Dock will automatically start up.

Problem solved!