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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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 [...]
Enable improved vi features (vim) in OSX
The vi editor in OSX by default runs in “compatibility” mode, however a secret is that vi on OSX is actually an alias to vim (vi iMproved). vim is a more modern version of vi that includes a variety of optional features. As you can see in the screenshot, colored syntax highlighting is one of [...]
Installing LAMP stack on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard
Updated instructions are available for installing LAMP on OSX 10.7 Lion. I’m setting up a new machine and found a great tutorial written by Josh Lockhart on getting a PHP web development environment up and running on Snow Leopard. This goes through almost everything to be up and running for a typical LAMP stack with [...]
iChat Auto-Accept Text Invitation
I really like using iChat for IM but one thing that is a minor annoyance is having to click the “Accept” button when you receive a text invitation from an AIM account. My preferred solution is to use Chax which offers a lot of other functions including chat logging. However if you don’t want any [...]
