From the monthly archives: February 2008

Western Digital Drive with Leopard – “File system formatter failed.”

By On February 26, 2008 · 118 Comments

I just bought a 1TB Western Digital drive. I am stoked.

However, I tried to format the drive on my Mac (Leopard) and got the error “File system formatter failed” when I tried to format the disk as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Not cool.

I found this forum thread which suggested using multiple partitions to [...]

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Executing multiple curl requests in parallel with PHP and curl_multi_exec

By On February 20, 2008 · 78 Comments

Let’s get one thing out in the open. Curl is sweet. It does it’s job very well, and I’m absoutely thrilled it exists.

If you’re using curl in your PHP app to make web requests, you’ve probably realized that by doing them one after the other, the total time of your request is the sum [...]

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External Libraries in XCode

By On February 6, 2008 · 3 Comments

I need to compile something and use the MySQL C++ library. I have mysql and mysql++ already compiled, I won’t go over how to do that now.

I added the following code to the top of my source:

#include <mysql++.h>

I got an error

/Users/jhaddad/dev/search_engine/main.cpp:4:21: error: mysql++.h: No such file [...]

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Tool for Testing API’s on a Mac

By On February 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I wasn’t able to find anything that I liked. I basically wanted a front end for curl with bookmarks.

Check out my cleverly named Api Tester. No docs yet, but I hope it’s self explanatory. Click the plus on the bottom left to add a bookmark. It’s freeware. Or, just download.

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