iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]
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Kill imagent
For some reason after upgrading to Lion I have to kill the process for imagent regularly in order to use iChat. Otherwise iChat stays stuck saying “unavailable.” I don’t know exactly why this is happening to some people and not others but I’m one of the unlucky people who has been experiencing it ever since [...]
Install Image Magick for PHP on OSX
These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
Four Reasons to NOT use try/catch
I was reading an argument discussion on google groups regarding the try/catch statement and node.js. In particular there was a suggestion that try/catch is an anti-pattern, meaning a poor development habit that is in common use. I can’t really agree that try/catch on it’s own is a bad thing but it is certainly easy to [...]
Installing LAMP Stack on OSX 10.7 Lion
This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on Snow Leopard and explains the steps that you need to get Lion up and running for LAMP development. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know). Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only need [...]
