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 [...]
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 [...]
Installing Zend PHP Debugger in Eclipse on OSX
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 [...]
Connect to VNC over SSH
Connecting to your VNC server over SSH is easily done and you most likely don’t need any special software to do so. Any system that has SSH installed can connect using an SSH Tunnel. I go into more detail about the concept on a separate post about mounting OSX AFS shares over SSH. First you [...]