console.app and MAMP

One of the things I genuinely love about Apple OSX is that there’s some hidden gems in the Applications/Utilities folder. One of those hidden gems is console.app, which acts like a GUI window that follows (aka `tail -f`) a particular log file. It’s great because you can insert markers and timestamps into the output, clear the display, and quickly open other logs to look for other signs of trouble.

Sure beats the heck out of hitting “enter” a bunch of times in the console window.

If you’d like to use it with MAMP, all you need to do is go into your Applications/MAMP/logs folder and right click the log files you want to open, then select “open with…” … alternately, open Applications/Utilities/Console.app and then do the normal file->open.