I decided to finally install some sort of PHP accelerator on my development machine to see if I could speed things up a bit.
My first attempt was to use PECL to install APC, but that didn’t work, so I had to rely on these instructions. They worked perfectly with my setup: OS X 10.5.8, entropy PHP Version 5.2.9 (release 7) running x86_64.
Apple – Support – Discussions – Entropy php5 with GD support and APC ….
A new version of my favorite MySQL GUI has been released today. Check it out below.
This bundle is a huge time saver if you find yourself doing a lot of searching in large projects. Ack is way faster than the built-in search and it shows results as they are found rather than all at once at the end.
ack-tmbundle
As much as I love the command line for mysql, sometimes it’s nice to have a GUI to see your tables and columns visually or to do a data dump into CSV. On OS X I’ve always used CocoaMySQL, although it became apparent a long time ago that it was no longer under development. My brother recently told me about Sequel Pro, a “MySQL database management app for Mac OS X 10.5.” You can download it here. So far it’s been working great. It truly does feel like CocoaMySQL with a Leopard interface.
svnX is a great mac GUI for svn repositories. A lot of our svn servers are accessed via non-standard ports for security, and a limitation of the svn+ssh syntax is that you can’t specify a non-standard port in the address name. To get around this in the command line, you can set a local environment variable “SVN_SSH” like so: More…
I’ve found the best way to install symfony on Leopard is to use the version from SVN. I find this is easy to do, and easy to update in the future. Here is a cheat sheet for those looking to get up and running with symfony on their Mac running 10.5 Leopard. More…
Mac OS 10.5 Leopard ships with Apache2 and SVN. However, if you want to keep a local svn repository and not use an external svn server (only really useful if you have projects which you will be the only developer), you have to set up the repository yourself. Here is a quick cheat-sheet to help you do just that. More…
I’m sure this happened to a lot of us, but I started out with my Windows Boot Camp partition about 5GB. My only intention was to use it to test out our web sites in multiple windows browsers. However, after installing all of the Windows XP updates, service packs, VMware tools, multiple IEs, and Firefox, I only had about 400 MB of free space available. I finally hit the tipping point where to install new software (SPSS) I would need more space. No way did I want to go through starting from scratch. Downloading all of those windows updates took FOREVER. So, here is how I managed to resize the Boot Camp partition and still get it to work in Fusion. These steps were performed on a MacBook Pro running Leopard and a Windows XP Boot Camp partition formatted as FAT32. More…
When I start work on a new web project I usually create a new virtualhost on my development machine so that I can access a local version of the site at something like http://myproj/ instead of http://localhost/~myusername/myproj. I use a nice little shell script written by Patrick Gibson called virtualhost.sh that handles this task on OS X. One little snafu I run into depending on my ISP is that their DNS servers will sometimes capture my local request to the domain name and try to redirect before my request even hits my local server. To fix this, you have to edit your local hosts database. Open up /private/etc/hosts and add a line like:
127.0.0.1 myproject
Now, any requests to http://myproject/ should be recognized as a local host and your DNS servers will no longer redirect you.
Just discovered this by accident: If you want a list of files in your project or any sub directory, drag the item from the file drawer into a document. A nicely formatted list of all of the files will automatically be placed into your doc. Now… if only I needed it. Maybe someday.
