Pressing F5

Six months ago I tried to get Apache, PHP, MySQL and Symfony on my Mac OSX build, so that I could avoid using a CentOS based dev environment I was running in VMWare Fusion. After weeks of struggling with compiling apache, php and mysql I gave up and stuck with CentOS Linux.

Today I stumbled across the following two tutorials as a result of switching to the NetBeans IDE for my php development work. In short, using the free version of MAMP and by following the steps described in the second tutorial you can be up and running with Symfony dev environment on your Mac. ;)

• How to install MAMP, XDebug and configure both with NetBeans IDE - http://www.netbeans.org/
• How to install Symfony on Mac OSX with the help of MAMP - http://www.tech-recipes.com/

Happy coding!

Fabien tweeted about this moments ago. The generous folks at UI Studio have put together a helpful checklist that every symfony developer should work through before launching an application.

Checks include:

• Custom 404 and other error/maintenance pages
• Security related
• PHP configuration
• User experience

Check it out at http://symfony-check.org

My answer to this questions was a big YES! Dug around the Internet and found the homepage of XDD(?).

http://homepage.mac.com/xdd/

In addition to his/her cool FLV QuickLook plugin he/she has also created a Folder and Archive plugin for QuickLook.

• Download and install Perian
• Simply drop the .qlgenerator file into “/Library/QuickLook”
• Type “killall Finder” on the command line in a terminal window (if you don’t know what this is simply reboot)
• Browse some .FLV files in Finder and you should be able to hit spacebar to bring up QuickLook - Voila!

My thanks go to XDD ;)

“Good morning Vietnam” … or rather “Good evening Vietnam”

My Vitriol were simply amazing. What more can I say!? Playing at the ULU My Vitriol rocked the house, after all it has been over a year since they played a proper gig (excluding festivals).

Rock on ;)

Just in case you are looking for a free ID3 editor for Mac OSX / Apple. I stumbled across Musorg today… a cracking simple little ID3 editor that is completely free.

http://peippo.eu/musorg/

Another one to add to the list of great free Mac OSX apps ;)

It seems Toyota, although they aren’t the first, just haven’t thought things through. Rather than let their customers have images sporting Toyota cars on the desktops of their PCs and Laptops, they have chosen issue a blanket DMCA notice to Desktop Nexus asking them to take down every desktop wallpaper featuring a Toyota car.

A great way of turning fans/customers against you. Well done Toyota.

If you are using o2 Broadband and are techie you’ll have noticed the DNS performance is terrible. Thanks to the folks at ADSLGuide.org.uk I have found out about OpenDNS.

They’ve even created some easy guides for each OS you may be using. Good luck.

OpenDNS

Ha,… imagine Danny and myself beavering away, without a clue whether or not it would work.

Two weeks later I found out that there is somebody else who has done is successfully and has even posted a tutorial online for everyone to follow. Excellent.

I’ll post pictures of our handy work shortly.

How to fit a Ninja 636 rear shock onto a Kawasaki Z750

Testing the iPhone Wordpress app to blog from the road. Needless to say I wish I’d had this on my trip around the west coast of the United States last year.

I particurlarly like the way it downloads all reference data for you like categories and previous posts.