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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This walk-through video shows how to install and enable PHP debugging using the Zend debugger in Eclipse on OSX. Instead of using print_r and die statements you can step through your code line-by-line, inspect variables and objects, set breakpoints and view the call stack. Using a debugger really pays off in the long run in [...]
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