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Things to know before going to WWDC
As most of you know I spent last week in San Francisco attending WWDC ‘08. I had a great time thanks to the AUC, and highly encourage others to attend this conference next year if they have the opportunity. It is worth it. Read more →
Intelleject: An experiment in Cocoa
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to attend a workshop on cocoa (which was kindly sponsored by the AUC). It was a great 3 days of programming and introduction into the world of cocoa. Since then I have been playing around with ideas for mac applications. Read more →
Updating the locate database in Mac OS X
One of my favorite commands in Unix is "locate". It's useful to help find files through terminal - fast! After freshly installing Leopard, I realised that the database for the command had not been built. Read more →
Dynamically set network location in Mac OS X
I love macs, but sometimes things could have been implemented better. In particular, I hate having to set the network location on my laptop when I go between work and home every day. I have put together a small shell script which can do this. I run this script on startup and it just checks what day and time it is so it can switch between two profiles (work or home). Read more →
How to install Tomcat on Mac OS X
A while back I wrote a post on the ubuntu forums on how to install Tomcat on ubuntu. It was very popular (if I do say myself) so I thought I would post the instructions on how to setup tomcat on Apple's OS X. These instructions work for 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). Read more →
Sockets problem with MySQL/PHP and Mac OS X
After installing MySQL 5 on OS X 10.4, you may have noticed that the install package has placed 'mysql.sock' in '/tmp/mysql.sock' instead of '/var/mysql/mysql.sock'. This will cause the following error when you attempt to access MySQL through PHP: Read more →
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