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• Setting up a Web Development Environment in Tiger This message means the upgrade is complete. Last week I started the upgrade Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” around the house. To my pleasant surprise, it went extremely smoothly. The most tedious and frustrating part was waiting for my newly enclosed external hard drive to copy tens of gigs of files back and forth for
• eMac Is a Poor Replacement for a 17 inch Powerbook The laptop is in the shop this week. Nothing as serious as Sam’s iBook problem, just a handful irritations I wanted to eliminated before the new year. That list: SuperDrive not accepting discs.Just made me realize how infrequently I actually use CD or DVDs. Internal speakers & microphone not working.This is a small irritant - especially when I’m
• How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano - the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is - Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the
• How To Install MacPorts, Apache2, Rails, MySql, Mongrel, and Subversion on an Intel Mac Now that I’m just about ready to deploy my first rails app, I thought I’d get the deployment environment set up rock solid on both the production and the development machines (one Mac Mini and one MacBookPro). Like many other tutorials on this same subject, your mileage may vary. In fact I’m writing this now, because
• eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now - neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I