Posts tagged “osx”
Mac OS X Lion PHP upgrade – php.ini and Suhosin
If you have upgraded from Snow Leopard to the new OS X Lion, you will notice PHP has also been upgraded – from 5.2 to 5.3. A couple of points that I noticed post-install. Firstly, my existing /etc/php.ini file was moved to /etc/php.ini-5.2-previous. Restoring this was trivial: sudo cp /etc/php.ini-5.2-previous /etc/php.ini However, I noticed that [...]
Fix PHP timezone warnings in OS X Snow Leopard
The standard Mac install of PHP has always been somewhat quirky, and 10.6 is no exception. One of the most obvious issues occurs when attempting to use date/time functions. PHP 5.3 requires that the date.timezone setting is available. Without this, you will receive a warning similar to the following: Warning: getdate() [function.getdate]: It is not [...]
Installing Subversion 1.5 on Mac OS X
My current project at Yahoo! is using a Subversion repository for version control, as opposed to the usual CVS (thankfully). Unfortunately, it turns out that the svn client installed on Mac OS X Leopard up to and including 10.5.6, is 1.4 whereas the “best” release is 1.5. It’s very simple to get the newer 1.5 [...]
Useless Mac Applications #1 : Sherlock
Bundled with Mac OS 8.5 – 10.4, the Sherlock search tool became less and less useful as time went by. Apple claimed that Sherlock was “dramatically better than standard web browsers at retrieving and displaying some of the most practical and useful information available on the internet” without ever explaining why. The US-centric content was [...]