Update: Dan has posted his updated guide for installing Ruby on Rails on Leopard.
I don’t think there are too many people who hasn’t come across either of Dan Benjamin’s guides when looking to install Ruby on Rails on a Mac. They are simple, to the point and you could basically copy and paste to get [...]
O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter used to have much more in-depth articles on Apache, Cocoa development, Database and Systems administration, but now it is all about conferences and Aperture. Seems like they have forgotten the “Dev†in the sites name and are getting it mixed up with their other Mac site over at Digital Media.
That stream of great [...]
Cynical Peak Software released Cyndicate yesterday bringing it out of it’s beta release that started in early April. If you liked PulpFiction from Freshly Squeezed Software (FSS) you should enjoy using Cyndicate. In fact Brad Miller and Erik Barzeski from FSS are the two behind Cynical Peak. With Brad doing all of the dev work [...]
After trying a few different methods (QuickTime Pro, iSquint) of encoding video for the Curve I’ve found a simple tool that works. Using Alec Peden’s Universal Build of mencoder and his Automator Workflow; converting a video for the Curve was as simple as right clicking the file.
QuickTime Pro took too long and seemed to [...]
Leopard on Intel-based Macs is now registered as an Open Brand UNIX 03 product. So now have better compatibility to compile and run that existing UNIX code.
One thing about the lack of a SDK for the iPhone that I think some people are missing is that yes most if not all other mobile phones have downloadable third-party applications for them, but none of those other phones are an iPod. Think about it I’m sure Apple wants all of that storage after [...]
I picked up a new Blackberry Curve (8300) last week as my new phone. Besides using it for work, its great to have IM with me as Carol can ping me when she is up and able to chat while she is in China.
PocketMac was included on the CD, but it still lags behind the [...]
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I just read about one of the first multi-touch devices for a Mac (and Windows) computer that I’ve seen since watching the Multi-Touch Interaction Research video and the iPhone announcement. The Lemur from JazzMutant is a multi-touch surface controller that was released over a year ago (July 2005). It has a [...]
A growing list of information after looking into using MacFuse with Amazon S3.
Thread on s3fs and MacFuse in the Amazon Web Services Developer Connection forum.
S3FS project page (from author of the above thread) Looks like he has removed it.
Another s3fs-fuse project page
MacFUSE project page
Downloads:
MacFUSE Core
SpothlightFS
SSHFS
Amit Singh’s announcement
How to uninstall
GmailFS via MacFUSE
MacFUSE with Objective-C
Getting started with [...]
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“If the Mac was so great, why did it lose? Cost, again. Microsoft concentrated on the software business and unleashed a swarm [...]