Feb

28

Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL problem

February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

I switched my dev. environnement at work from MAMP to Zend Server Community Edition a while ago but was disappointed that my Mac Book could not migrate because of a MySql error. Every time I would try to run the server, I would get the following error:
1ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!
Googling [...]

Jan

24

Yamaha DTXPlorer Kit with Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) on Xbox 360

January 24, 2010 | 14 Comments

So I play guitar (a little) and I used to play Guitar Hero on PS2 from time to time. Last year, for Christmas we got an XBox 360 and it was my intention all along to get Guitar Hero World Tour or Rock Band to try the drums. Little did I know where it would [...]

Jan

14

RTM paranoia (fight todo lists stack overflows)

January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

In addition to my previous post about how to display RTM tasks right on the desktop, I  should also mention that a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget is available to keep track of your RTM to do list. Combined with the iPhone app (available to Pro RTM users only), Apple freaks will have no excuse [...]

Jan

14

Display Remember the Milk Tasks on your Desktop (Mac OS X)

January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

I use iCalBuddy and GeekTool to display the upcoming events from my calendar on my desktop.
When I started using Remember the Milk I decided I wanted my tasks to show on there, too.
I don’t know if I have a terrible memory or a long list of things to do but it looks like I can’t [...]

Jan

3

Installing Ack In Project for Textmate

January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment

One of the reasons I had to install GIT was to be able to install these GitHub hosted Textmate plugins I find useful. The most important one of them being Ack in Project. It is so much better and faster than the built-in search in project feature included with Textmate.
Here is a quick post about [...]

Dec

17

Installing Git On Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

There are a lot of how to’s out there with several solutions including installing from source, from binaries, with an installer. Here is how I’ve done it guided by the following posts:

Compiling and installing Git on Mac OS X
Installing Git on Mac OS X Leopard

First, I downloaded git from its homepage in bz2 format.
Then, I [...]

Feb

15

Customize Windows XP to look like Mac OS X

February 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

I frequently use Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux (Debian, KDE4). I have a MacBook which I use by default to browse the Internet, answer email, etc. I turn on my desktop computer and run Linux if I’m about to edit a video. If I am about to code a little something from home, [...]

Jan

31

How to fix Apple Mail

January 31, 2009 | 2 Comments

Today, I experienced my first big bug with Apple Mac OS X 10.5 running on my Mac Book. I’ve used this laptop for a year and 3 months. I can easily tolerate a bug a year and be a very happy user, nonetheless, bugs need fixed.
Today, after turning on the laptop, Mail refused to run. [...]

Jan

24

Installing Qt4 on Mac OS X

January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I wanted to install Darwin Ports in order to install Qt4 on my Mac but that turned out unsessfully for me. Qt4 would install but I was unable to locate qmake in order to compile a Qt4 application.
Anyway, I found another way to acomplish this (which might also make it possible to install Amarok2 later [...]

Jan

16

Installing Darwin Ports on Mac OS X

January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Darwin Ports are Unix packages ported for Mac OS X.
They can be downloaded from the Darwin Ports project page.
To install, simply download and run the package installer.
That done, modify your path by editing your .bash_profile file as follow
1PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
Relaunch your terminal and run
1sudo port selfupdate
To install a package run
1sudo port install <package_name>
To uninstall the darwin [...]

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