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The Grains, a great band from Byron Bay Spread the love: Delicious Digg Facebook Reddit Stumblers Twitter RSS E-mail

Ever try to setup Magento in a local dev. environment on your Mac? You might have encountered an error message: PHP extension “mcrypt” must be loaded Well we better load it then! This solution here worked perfectly for me: http://michaelgracie.com/2011/07/21/plugging-mcrypt-into-php-on-mac-os-x-lion-10-7 Spread the love: Delicious Digg Facebook Reddit Stumblers Twitter RSS E-mail

Ever needed to show those hidden files in Finder? I’ve tested this successfully in both Snow Leopard and Lion. Throw these two lines in your ~/.bash_profile (if it doesn’t exist, just create it) Reload your .bash_profile. From within terminal: Type sf to show all hidden files Type hf to hide all typically hidden files Spread [...]

No Mac setup is complete without Quicksilver. If you’ve never heard of or used it before, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lightning fast app launcher that’ll really increase your speed/productivity by reducing the amount of clicks/searching/typing you need to do to perform a task. I digress; I recently installed a [...]

A client recently gave me a call saying his website was throwing a malware warning when visited using Google Chrome. A bit of research indicated that somehow the attacker gained access to the site, installed a Web Shell script in *.js.php files and injected JS code into existing JS files. Google’s Webmaster Tools showed the [...]

Alright, this will be a quick post but I wanted to take 5 and write this out for prosperity and maybe somebody else will have a similar issue. I currently develop in RoR and PHP amongst other languages. For Rails I use Pow to quickly setup a development environment. For PHP I just set manually [...]

For a long while now I’ve been connecting to MySQL on my development platform with 127.0.0.1 because for some reason localhost didn’t work. Turns out it’s because 127.0.0.1 uses TCP/IP and localhost uses sockets. The php.ini file points to the wrong place for the mysql.sock so all you have to do is change it, restart [...]

Just a quick note about how important it is to backup your data! The hard drive in my MacBook Pro decided to stop working this morning and in my case, my laptop is my life. All my work, photos, music, contacts are stored on this one laptop. Luckily, a few months ago, after staring at [...]

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