I had to install the 32-bit MySQL engine to replace the 64-bit engine that I had installed last week. For backwards compatibility reasons, the Ruby script launcher, /usr/bin/ruby, was built as a 32-bit application and it will not interact with the 64-bit library supplied with the 64-bit MySQL installation. Now, the Ruby interpreter […]

Thanks to the folks at Creative Eyes, I have a new System Preferences applet that can start and stop the MySQL database engine very easily. MySQL either doesn’t have one of their own or it’s buggy.
Now that MySQL is up and running, I can get back to what I was working on before the […]

I was able to build Mac OS X dynamic libraries last night. I built my Tools and Compression code and was able to run them successfully. I also built them as 64-bit code and it all worked swimmingly. I do need to tweak my hand-built porting tools, but now I have a […]

It took a bit of poking around today, but I was able to build a test web site on my MacBook. The key turned out to be faulty file and directory permissions throughout the directory tree. That and some Apache server configurations got in my way. Once I got past those hurdles, […]

One of the many free-time projects that I work on are pirate radio shows for the Barscape forum. At least, I used to. Audio and video tend to use a lot of hard disk space and I ran out on my Compaq laptop some months ago. I have since built a networked […]

Ok. So I may have been hasty. My build of mod_ruby crashes the Apache server on startup. The System Preferences:Sharing applet didn’t notify me of this. It said it was working. The browser didn’t agree and the error logs confirmed it. Bad GUI! I should rub the applet’s […]

This MacBook Pro simply rocks. It is fast and intuitive. I have suffered absolutely zero issues in the transition from my Windows box.
I have had no problems getting Mac versions of the apps I use or finding and using substitutes:
1. Browsers
I have Opera, Firefox and Safari installed. As I do web development […]

Although a day late, my new 2.5Ghz MacBook Pro arrived. I am now in the process of loading all the software I need to use this thing to its full potential. I’ve already upgraded the RAM to 4G and, woah Nelly!, is this thing fast. It’s thinner and lighter than my Compaq […]

I hate Microsoft Windows. I really do. It is the most tech-user-unfriendly OS among the big 3: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. Even OpenVMS may be better. I’d rather work on the “Unix with $” OS than on Windows.
To be fair, some of this may be due to a negative bias […]

For the past month or so, I’ve been porting my Tools and Compression libaries to Windows. I am a strong proponent of developing cross-platform code, so I occasionally like to port somewhat stable code across multiple OSes. Luckily I have access to the big 3: Linux, Windows and OS X.
When developing code, I […]