When installing PHP and MySQL on OSX you may get the error Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’. Or you may also get “No such file or directory” when calling mysql_connect from a PHP page. This occurs because PHP is looking for the file mysql.sock in it’s typical installation location of /var/mysql/mysql.sock. [...]
Archive | January, 2009
TortoiseSVN for Apple OSX
TortoiseSVN is my personal favorite SVN client, unfortunately it’s only fully supported on Windows. With a little bit of hacking, though, TortoiseSVN is usable on OSX. You can checkout, commit, update view the repo, etc. At this point there are no overlays or Finder contextual menus. These instructions are not for the novice user, but [...]
