Archive for the ‘mac’ Category

Running Puppet Master on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

As of a few hours after this post, I've given up trying to get Puppet Master running on Snow Leopard. There appears to be an issue with the SSL certificates generated that's preventing puppetd from getting it's recipes. There doesn't appear to be any way to disable this. ...

Installing NumPy on MacOS X Snow Leopard

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

NumPy is a requirement to work with PyTables. This is the second step in the install process, after getting HDF5 set up. These instructions are based on the ones found on the NumPy site, but I'm summarizing things for my own use later on. First, you'll need to install the Fortran ...

Helpful guide for setting up SSHFS on mac

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I finally got fed up enough to look into this. I've previously used Samba mounts, but this in theory should be better. http://www.turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mounting-remote-filesystems-on-osx-leopard-using-sshfs-macfuse-and-macfusion/ If you're using Snow Leopard, the drive will not be able to mount. You can get around this by deleting /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so

New Mac Dev Box Software Checklist

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

When I get a new Mac, I go through the same steps every time. Yes I use a Mac as a dev box. Software Xcode Adium Launchbar iTerm - change defaults to black background. (edit bookmarks, default, background) Apache HTTP Server (source) MySQL (source) PHP (source) Eclipse PDT Omnigraffle Fluid BBEdit SubEthaEdit Git SVN Memcached Tweaks Remove everything from Dock. Fix the look of the ...

On cocoa…

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

I found this pretty amusing... me: i'm terrible w/ cocoa i don't particularly like objective-c it's to verbose matt: [me putonSock:blueOne onFoot:rightFoot ignoringHangNail:YES]

OS X: Spaces + Fluid = Awesome

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I've tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing. As useful as it *should* be, it just never was. And I've finally realized why. Most of what I do is in a web browser. And spaces just wasn't made for that. I ...

Goodbye Quicksilver, Hello LaunchBar

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

It's unfortunate that I've reached this point, since I thought quicksilver was a really awesome piece of software. Unfortunately, it's just gotten to be completely unstable. Beach balls became all too common. So common, that I was willing to cough up $20 for LaunchBar after only trying ...

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

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 ...

External Libraries in XCode

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 ...

Tool for Testing API’s on a Mac

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. ...