The new full screen option in Lion is quite nice. At the moment my favorite application to run full screen is terminal. It has a great old school vibe to it, not to mention that it allows you to be fully focused on that one window. I do however, always want to change the settings [...]
Cocoa’s object model is something I really like. Coming from Java, being able to declare a property and have the getters and setters auto generated is really wonderful. The key value way to interact with an object is also a very powerful tool. The problem is what happens when these two collide. For a project [...]
Shutting down Postgres server on Snow Leopard requires some shell work, so open up terminal and execute the following commands: sudo su – postgres This will log you into the postgres server user and move you to its directory. bin/pg_ctl -D data stop This will stop the server from running.
At DOP we started working on a django front end for Sql-Ledger with the idea of combining it later on with our ticketing system. Getting it going on my MacBook proved to be more challenging then expected. Most of the problems were easily solvable, but finding the oplossing proved to be tricky. Therefor I have [...]
iLife 08 brought a big change to iMovie. iMovie 06 was a very capable video editing software with a good plugin library. iMovie 08 has taken a step back in the amount of pure editing feature. It seemed like apple was aiming to make iMovie the “iPhoto for home video”. One of the features not [...]
Tiger comes bundled with Apache 1.3 and PHP4. While these are still used for web development they are defenetly on the way out. For this reason I have decided to set up a more up to date MAMP installation on my old Powerbook G4. While this was all done on Tiger, it will most likely [...]