Archive for the ‘mac’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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 or directory
Not ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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. ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
For a while I had to use a Windows box for my development. Fortunately, I was able to make a good case for my company to switch me to a MacBook Pro.
One of the tools that took me a while to track down was a regex testing ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I ran into an issue trying to get Imagemagick (convert) working on OSX last night. I had compiled libjpeg and installed it, but when I would compile convert, it would not have jpeg support.
I found this post on dzone, which I followed and was able to use libjpeg just ...
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