This script was originally intended to create virtual hosts for a development environment on Mac OS X with the built-in Apache server so that you can reflect a production environment locally.

The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.

VirtualHostX is the easiest way to host multiple websites on your Mac. It’s the perfect solution for web designers working on more than one project at a time. (Aren’t we all?) No more nesting folders and no more asking the programmer across the cubicle for help. With VirtualHostX you can easily create and manage Apache virtual hosts with just a few clicks.

a simple way to easily create and remove virtual hosts for Apple's built-in Apache server, allowing creation of a virtual host just by creating a folder with the virtual hostname I want to use and editing my /etc/hosts file so that my browser will be able to find it. Removing the virtual host then is as easy as deleting the folder and the entry in /etc/hosts — there's no need to edit Apache configuration files or restart Apache each time.

configure postfix to relay messages through a third-party server (ideally your ISP), optionally using authentication and TLS.

Script to turn on Cocoa debugging options for a the active executable of an XCode project.

A “Make Bookmarklet” Perl script that I run as a BBEdit filter that (1) takes as input a file containing JavaScript source code; (2) creates a bookmarklet URL from that source code; and then (3) places the bookmarklet code in a comment at the first line of your JavaScript source, but otherwise preserves your original script.

if you too wish to have more control over what happens when you click on a background window, Klicko may solve your problem.

The Mouseover DOM Inspector, or MODI for short, is a favelet (also known as a bookmarklet) that allows you to view and manipulate the DOM of a web page simply by mousing around the document

Ever wondered which JavaScript framework was used on a specific website but was too lazy to check the source code for the answer? Fear no more WTFramework is here.

Jash is a DHTML-based window that gives you command-line JavaScript access to the current browser window. With this console you can quickly debug scripts, manipulate the DOM, view the current page's objects, functions, and variables, trace the execution stack, execute arbitrary Javascript, enter new CSS (in IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari), and much more.

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.

You can calibrate your iBook, PowerBook, MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro computer's lithium ion battery for best performance. The battery has an internal microprocessor that provides an estimate of the amount of energy in the battery as it charges and discharges. The battery needs to be recalibrated from time to time to keep the onscreen battery time and percent display accurate. With all iBooks and PowerBook G4 computers, except the aluminum PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD), you should perform this procedure when you first use your computer and then every few months thereafter.

Spector will record everything anyone does on the internet.

messages in /var/log/system.log reading kernel: unknown SIGSEGV code 0. These are caused by a broken FLEXnet licensing server; Adobe knows about the problem and says it is "normal." There is a relatively simple way to fix it.

Automatic Offsite, Onsite, and Online Backup for Home and Business. CrashPlan stands out among the many Internet backup programs available these days because it lets you back up not just to centralized servers for a monthly fee, but also to a friend or colleague also running CrashPlan, for no additional cost. But what's more interesting about these new capabilities is that they enable you to make a local backup to a hard drive, take that drive offsite, attach to it from another Mac, and continue backing up to it over the Internet without having to enter any IP addresses, set up friends, or open ports (in most situations).

When we're done, you'll be using Opportunistic TLS (offers TLS but doesn't require it, since most ISP email servers don't use it) for the internet at large and Mandatory TLS just for your specified host(s)

Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

As a rule of thumb, only use vCalendar invitations if you do require a reply from the recipient about whether she will participate or not, or if you need to make absolutely sure that the user cannot edit the event in their calendar. In all other cases — e.g., to share travel itineraries, class schedules, etc. –, sticking with standard vCalendar published event files should do the trick just fine: just drag and drop the event from iCal into a Finder window or an email message, et voilà!

The purpose of this installation is to be able to push changes from remote repositories into the hosted repo, where the hosted repository may also serve as the source directory of the live website.

use launchd and its ability to react on the change of a file, namely the crashlog to automatically restart a program.

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iCal Reply Checker is an add-in to iCal for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 that gives the user options for how replies to meeting invites are dealt with. It allows the user to not send replies, send replies on a case by case basis, send all replies or (as of version 1.2) opens the reply message in Mail for editing.

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The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries including:

Custom Tailors of Mens' Suits, Custom Shirts and more

the trick is to copy the compiled keyedobjects.nib file into a regular .nib resource, and then open it with Interface Builder.

This article summarizes the top rules for creating high-quality, consistent Windows Vista® user interfaces (UIs).

Although every App Store product page offers a company and support web site, you can interact better with your users by inviting them to contact you from within the program. You may still get a few cross-eyed, single-starred, annoyed reviews, but opening up lines of communication can help redirect that anger towards concrete bug fix requests and enhancement ideas.

Higher-Order Perl is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It's about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions.

a series of articles sharing ideas from the Higher-Order Perl book by Mark Jason Dominus, translated to Ruby.

DxOMark Sensor ranks cameras based on real-life photographic scenarios

For a custom 404 page to be truly useful, it should not only provide relevant information to the user, but should also provide immediate feedback to the developer so that, when possible, the problem can be fixed.

slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML

Base is an application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files. It's a proper Mac OS X application. Fast to launch, quick to get in to and get the data you need.

sudo chflags hidden "/Volumes/NameOfTheVolume"

It turns out that (at least on this PowerBook, and probably others) the ALLOC-MEM too big! error is caused by a loose AirPort card

These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery

Leopard has built-in Automator support on the Unix command line, which can be called from AppleScript using the do shell script construct. This method also allows passing input values and variables to the workflow.

To convert an AAC file to audiobook format, select the files you want changed, select File » Get Info, and select the Options tab. Click the Media Kind pop-up menu, and then choose Audiobook. Selecting Remember Position is also useful for Audiobook files — it will restart the audio where you left off if you stop in the middle of playback.

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress,

use iPhone Configuration Utility to enter pass phrase into iphone, which iphone keyboard is in capable of typing.

Marc Liyanage wrote the AppleScript to eject one or more selected volumes in the Finder. If a volume represents a disk image, the script trashes the image at the same time. I use this a lot with downloaded application distribution images.

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Use iPhone configuration utility to enable complex passcodes on the iphone.

Improves Finder Window Management - Fiwi is a compact, faceless (it has no interface per se) application to help with moving files and folders via 2 symmetrical Finder windows.

DxO Labs created dxomark.com for members of the digital photographic community who are passionate about image quality – professional photographers, advanced amateurs, photography reviewers and imaging media journalists. While other websites publish information about JPEG image quality, only DxO Labs provides the first publicly-accessible database of objective and in-depth RAW sensor image quality measurements.

CUPS-PDF is a backend module for CUPS (Mac OS X’s printing system) by Volker C. Behr that, rather than printing to a device, prints straight to PDF files. Why use this rather than a simple “Save as PDF” in the print dialog? Pressing return is faster. Batch-print through the writer to convert documents to PDF. Common save location for all generated PDFs.

Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.

Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. You can signup for a free trial to take it for a test drive or go on a quick tour full of video and screenshots to learn more.

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.

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DataClean is a Cross Platform Utility designed to make it straightforward to ‘clean’ large amounts of data. Data can be imported from a CSV or TAB delimited file, modified (any column, any row) and then saved back in several different formats including native Excel (XLS), TAB Delimited and Comma Separated. You can also save the modified file using your own Custom Delimiter.

The debate over having a FF (Full-Frame) CCD versus a CCD with a magnification factor, is still a topic that stirs a little controversy from camera owners…ok, actually, it causes a lot of heated debates on photography forums. There is also a debate on what to properly call this magnification factor. Is it a crop? Is it a multiplier? Well, it depends, because camera manufacturers are introducing new lenses and new sensors of different sizes, which confuse the subject. However, start thinking about this in terms of a focal length equivalency factor, rather than an actual crop.

Understanding camera lenses can help add more creative control to digital photography. Choosing the right lens for the task can become a complex trade-off between cost, size, weight, lens speed and image quality. This tutorial aims to improve understanding by providing an introductory overview of concepts relating to image quality, focal length, perspective, prime vs. zoom lenses and aperture or f-number.

mod_rails on mc os x tutorial. Most important note, Phusion Passenger defaults to production environment unless explicitly told otherwise in httpd.conf

how to mock up iphone interfaces in Fireworks

Balancing quality and file size in PDFs can be tricky, but in my five years of publishing PDF books I’ve learned—through much trial and error—numerous tricks that can help you keep your PDFs small, eliminating problems with bounced e-mail attachments, unnecessarily long downloads, and higher-than-necessary bandwidth bills.

GitX is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!

This HOWTO was designed for a classic setup of two servers behind a loadbalancer. The aim is to have true redundancy - either server can be unplugged and yet the site will remain up

Reverse Polish Notation was developed in 1920 by Jan Lukasiewicz as a way to write a mathematical expression without using parentheses and brackets. Hewlett-Packard Co., realizing that Lukasiewicz's method was superior to standard algebraic( 1) expressions when using calculators and computers, adapted Polish Notation for its first hand-held scientific calculator, the hp35, in 1972.

This guide is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Ubuntu and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started.

converts the iPhone / iPod Touch backups that are created by iTunes into readily usable Mac OS X files. It is designed to run on Mac OS X Leopard only.

properly title-casing text. Its main trick was in being smart about “small words” that should not be capitalized even in title case.

Phusion Passenger™ — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”.