Category Archives: OS X

My Dock Overfloweth

June 14, 2007 – 7:19 pm

This might be obsolete when Apple releases Leopard and it’s desktop stacks, but Overflow is a great utility app for organizing your shise. Overflow let’s you group applications, folders and files into categories that you can quickly access by hitting ‘F1′. Below is my ‘Dev’ category, I also make a category for all my current [...]

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Set up eclipse to compile MXML / AS3 (quasi Flex Builder for OS X)

March 27, 2007 – 11:06 pm

The release of Apollo has renewed my interest in Flex, I was on the Flex Builder Beta for OS X but don’t do enough Flex work (yet) to shell out for Builder so… I Googled around for the best open source solution.
It was my lucky day as Todd Sharp updated Darron Schall’s 2005 post about [...]

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The Best CSS Editor Just Got Better

November 6, 2006 – 11:39 am

I’ve been using CSSEdit for the last couple of months and it’s sharply increased my productivity when working with style sheets. Today MacRabbit released version 2.0 (of course) and it is jaw-droppingly good, TextMate good.
There are five major new features but my favorite so far is ‘Overridding’ which as the name suggests give you the [...]

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Unix commands 101

July 23, 2006 – 8:22 pm

Some basic Unix/Linux commands that are also helpful on OS X’s Terminal.
‘ls’ lists the contents of a directory
ls‘cd’ change directory (go into a directory)
cd [directory name]‘mv’ move a file or directory
mv [directory] [new/location]‘rm’ remove a file or directory (directory must be empty)
rm [fileToDelete]‘rm -rf’ remove a directory AND it’s contents (without confirmation)
rm -rf [aDirecotyFullofStuff]
‘du -s [...]

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How To: Install Django on OS X (Tiger 10.4)

July 23, 2006 – 6:56 pm

Django is a web framework similar to Ruby on Rails, it’s crown jewel is a built in admin/CMS system that saves tons of time when setting up a dynamic site.
Django is pretty easy to install, if you have the correct version of Python, if you have MySQLdb for Python, if you know how add apps/scripts [...]

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