This was a lot less straightforward than I expected. So I’m posting the incantations here in hopes it’ll save others some time. Sequel Pro is a very capable Mac-based, open source, MySQL client. One of these many capabilities is to tunnel via SSH to another server. In this case, we’re going from your host machine (an OSX desktop), to…
Wherein our hero finds his way back to the bosom of Redmond, using nothing but open source software.
This is the big drawback of developing websites on a Mac: you can’t test with Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is unfortunate, as IE is still one of the most used browsers around. It’s not THE most used browser, of course; that honour rests with Chrome as of May 2012. So, no-can-do on OSX, but you…
Every once in a while I need to take a screenshot or screen capture in OS X. (So what’s the difference between a screenshot and a screen capture? None really, as far as I know. But you have to include both so people searching for either will find these nuggets of wisdom.) Invariably I have…
I was dismayed, I must admit, to find a dearth of binaries when I was ready to install Subversion, the open source version control system, on Bender2, my MacBook Pro. But the journey brought me to an even better conclusion. Apple has an article about installing Subversion on OS X, but it’s old (2005), and…
It’s been a dreadful few days. So I thought I’d share. Saturday night I was on my way to a party at Centro, to celebrate my friend Brian’s 50th birthday. The radio station was cutting out. I thought some poor bastard was probably scrambling in a control room somewhere; so I’ll give him a few…
In spite of Apple’s many transgressions, I finally caved, and bought a Touch. What transgressions? They’re suing a small Victoria, BC business school over the apple logo. The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have cut and paste. The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have an SD card slot for extra memory. The iPhone/Touch SDK comes with a punishingly harsh NDA. Ok,…
I’ve been using Paint Shop Pro for years. I got pretty good at making greeting cards, but there was a limit to what I could do in terms of photo-realistic compositions. My friend, Kristan Uccello, posted a link on Facebook to a set of tilt-shift miniatures, which I think I can pull off. I’m also…
I’ve been using, playing and struggling with Windows since version 3.0. Before that, I used pretty much every version of MS-DOS. I’ve poured a lot of my money into Microsoft. I’ve watched them go from enthusiastic techno geeks, to arrogant robber barons. When Vista was announced, I vowed not to donate another dime to the…