OS X
MAMP and PHP Development on the Mac
I’ve been doing a lot of my web development lately on my macbook pro, but the problem is that I do the work locally, then have to rsync it to my Linux-based server to see the results. Not a huge deal, but a PITA. So I decided I was going to look into running the [...]
Of Bugzilla Clients
Michael Scherer posted to cooker@ a few days ago about putting PyBugz a devilishly cool python app for querying a bugzilla database into cooker. He also emailed me because a while ago I had tried the GUI Deskzilla product with the Mandriva bugzilla and it didn’t work, so he mentioned he had made some changes [...]
BBEdit Codeless Language Module for RPM Spec Files
The news is out and any OS X-using developers out there are probably aware that BareBones provided a new major update of BBEdit today. I downloaded it and was playing around with it (this is a paid upgrade so I’ve got some time to evaluate it although the upgrade cost is only $30) when I [...]
Linux vs Mac Community… a blog response
I read with great amusement a blog entry from Bryan O’Bryan entitled Why I ditched my Mac for Linux and some of the comments (no time to read them all; perhaps later). Instead of leaving a comment there and having it lost in the 100+ comments, I decided to respond here. Man, Bryan is in [...]
Mounting remote systems via ssh
I write these little things called TechMails for TechRepublic every month and this month I was looking at Konqueror and it’s fish:// Kioslave stuff. I’ve never actually played with fish before, probably because I don’t really like KDE and never use it but this stuff is pretty neat. I have no idea if GNOME/Nautilus can [...]
Email clients… do they all suck?
Really… it is 2006 right? Email’s been around for ages, so why are email clients still so crappy? Last August I switched from the OS X Mail.app (in Tiger) to mutt because Tiger’s Mail.app was too stinking slow. I get lots of mail… I mean *lots* of mail. My incoming mbox for this month so [...]