For anyone else who's having trouble with include path errors when trying to run PHP-based bundle commands in Textmate like this one:

PHP Warning: require(/lib/beautify.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /private/tmp/temp_textmate.4tD2ED on line 19

It looks like the problem has to do with php.ini configuration settings that ship with MacPorts (may be the production sample ini file, in particular). In order to environment variables to populate the $_ENV global that Textmate uses for settings, etc, be sure you've got the letter "E" at the front of the "variables_order" setting value, like this:

variables_order = "EGPCS"

Reluctant hat-tip to an article on Experts Exchange for this one.

When you need a zip code database for the US you should get it from here
http://www.free-zipcodes.com/
But you shouldn't spend time trying to install all the required perl (sigh) libs needed to import it into MySQL.
Simply create the table structure

CREATE TABLE zipcodes (
       zipcode INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
       latitude FLOAT(10,8),
       longitude FLOAT(10,8),
       state VARCHAR(2),
       city VARCHAR(128),
       county VARCHAR(128)
);

As a bonus Sequel Pro supports ssh tunneling out of the box so you can do it directly to firewalled DBs.

As always make sure you back up your DB first incase of failure.

I'm using Views' "expose filters as a block" functionality in a custom search page. One of the filters is for content type, and users need to be able to select multiple options. Views can only generate multi-select lists as dropdowns, however, and the designs require checkboxes. Using a hook_form_alter to flip the #type from 'select' to 'checkboxes' fails because the form API structures those so differently. The views_filter_pack module claims to be able to convert from one to the other, but is extremely over-engineered for this purpose. Some searching around showed that other people had the same problem but no solutions seemed to work.

Then it dawned on me that I didn't need Drupal or Views to use checkboxes, I just needed the browser output to be rendered as checkboxes.

If you are having trouble getting rid of a stale .swf with Safari
open ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/
Delete files at will then clear the Safari cache and reload.

UPDATE:
I found iPurge Safari Cache

Which does the trick!

Today I learned:

1. That there's always more tricks in the PHP bag
2. That the max() command will return the element with the highest-value key when returned an associative array. So, given $a = array(1 => "red", 5 => "green", 10 => "blue");, max($a) will return "blue".