Author Archives: PJ Kix

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installing mozilla raindrop on os x

ok so i thought i would give mozilla raindrop a test … first i wanted to check it out on my laptop and them maybe install it on my ubuntu dev box after reading this article …
why not give it a shot on my laptop as well ….
follow their instructions here

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Google Chrome Frame and you

Ok so Google has this plug-in that just came out for IE called “Google Chrome Frame” … kinda silly name, i know. So WTF does it do and why is Google doing this? Obviously MS is not happy about it either.

Basically its a plug-in for IE that lets sites opt into using chrome for the [...]

snow leopard firewall stealth connection attempts – SHIELDS UP!

have you noticed any weird firewall log messages since installing snow leopard? i keep seeing requests for ports 53(dns), 548(AFP), 88(Kerberos), 80(WWW) from weird ip addresses … strange thing is logs only started showing up since 29th, after installing snow leopard … i’m still not sure how any traffic would get through 2 routers (both [...]

os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports

so a few glitches upgrading to snow leopard recently.
a couple programs didn’t work and needed to be re-installed (nambu, parallels, etc), a few issues with macports …

$ port –version
dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
while executing
“load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib”
(“package ifneeded Pextlib 1.0″ [...]

twitter tools … more good stuff

anyone using twitter needs the following greasmonkey scripts installed right away.
first up is @troynt twitter script.
this adds all sorts of good stuff to twitter ui.

groups
expand short urls
inline media such as twitpic and youtube
river of news infinite page scrolling
retweet
many more enhancemnts

the next up is … Twitter Search Results on Google
this adds real time twitter results to [...]

choose your destiny!

impending upgrades loom … which side will you choose?
Windows:
Mac:
via (marco.org & strelau.net)

upgrading to php 5.3 via macports

so i noticed macports already has php 5.3 only a week after its release. so why not give it a try. well here’s what happened ….

Zend Debugger requires Zend Engine API version 220060519.
The Zend Engine API version 220090626 which is installed, is newer.
Contact Zend Technologies at http://www.zend.com/ for a later version of Zend Debugger.

PHP [...]

ant + phpunit + selenium + cruisecontrol + phpundercontrol = end to end testing zen

playing with ant + phpunit + selenium (ide/core/rc) + cruisecontrol + phpundercontrol + capistrano = end to end testing plus continuous integration zen.
lets break it down …
automate builds = ant
testing end to end = phpunit + selenium
self documenting code = phpdoc + uml … (markdown + yaml)?
continuous integration = cruisecontrol + phpundercontrol
automated deploys = capistrano
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refs:
using [...]

git + svn

git and svn make a pretty cool combo.
its probably best to start with svn and then create a git to track it , but sometimes its more natural the other way around.
suppose you start a small local project and want to track revs, git is perfect for this as there almost no setup overhead. but [...]

installing drizzle db on os x

UPDATE: these instruction might not be good to follow for now since even though it compiled and installed things are not happy at the moment.
$ /opt/local/bin/client/drizzletest
drizzletest: Could not open connection ‘default’ after 500 attempts: 21 drizzle_state_connect:could not connect
not ok
also there is better info here maybe … should have done more research fist before diving in [...]