Entries in the ' apple ' category

Written April 1, 2008 in apple

If Apple had actually put a lot of thought into the Spaces feature on Leopard, a lot of things would be different. Spaces seems to have been ripped out of whatever the deveoper’s favorite Linux desktop manager was, and pasted down in OSX with a bare minimum of programming work.

First …

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Written March 24, 2008 in apple

Daring Fireball has a bunch of Mac apps sponsoring it’s RSS feed this week. They’re all worthy, they’re all cool, but they’re all very regrettably overpriced.

Indie Mac developers should learn from Apple’s approach with the Apple Store. $.99 is the right price for a song, and millions of people …

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Written March 22, 2008 in apple, php, symfony, webdev, zend framework

If you use vim and develop in PHP, you need these tips.

If you’re on a Mac like I am but prefer command-line vim in a terminal window, you can download an updated version of VIM and then just symlink /usr/bin/vim to the bundle in the /Applications directory, and it’ll run …

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Written March 22, 2008 in apple

I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard last night. First thing I did was back up safely to a bootable drive using SuperDuper!, then I slipped the DVD in and gave it a go. I was thinking about starting from a fresh partition, but I’m busy right now and don’t want

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Written March 15, 2008 in apple, punditry

John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes, “Williams does have a good point regarding AOL’s demo of a native iPhone AIM client during the SDK introductory event: an IM client is exactly the sort of app that’s potentially a lot more useful if it continues to keep you logged in …

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Written March 13, 2008 in apple

The girl brought over her new MacBook last night so that I could help her files moved over from her old Windows PC. I haven’t upgraded yet (As much of an Apple fanboy as I am, I will readily admit that I usually wait until 10.x.2 before I buy anything …

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Written January 17, 2008 in apple

Coding Horror sums up why I like the Mac software market: You have lots of simple apps that focus very well on their core featureset without a lot of feature bloat.

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Written December 1, 2007 in apple, symfony

Getting this error?

dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/severin/Dev/Projects/MAMP_1.7_src/lib/libltdl.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922/mcrypt.so
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

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Written November 24, 2007 in apple

Since ZigVersion seems to be dead, does anyone else know of a *good* GUI SVN client for OSX?

Edit: There’s lots of suggestions in the comments below, but I dyslexia’d the current version # (1.2.1, released just a few days ago) and mistook it as the 1.1.2 that I have …

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Written September 26, 2007 in apple

My girlfriend’s a busy and poor college student. But she needed a new computer to replace her elderly iBook, so we waited until the new iMacs came out on August 7th … and she pushed the ‘order’ button on a new black/silver iMac the day they were released. She added …

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