justinmaccarthy

Well believe it or not, I’ve never had the time or requirement to get into PHP for a medium/large project.
Recently I’ve had both the time and the requirement.

Firststop was to install PHP on my OSX Powerbook.
Marc Liyanage’s excellent Mac OS packages website made that extremely easy
Just follow the instructions here

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Next thing I needed was a PHP friendly editor. Since I already use Eclipse as an editor for Java, I decided on the PHP plugin.
Download it here, www.phpeclipse.de . Hasn’t got Debugging yet, but good otherwise.

Given my experience in Java web applications, I was keen to find two bits of functionality for my new PHP web application.

First I needed a templating engine, so I can do some presentation/logic separation.

I’ve decided to try smarty,
http://smarty.php.net/

Second I needed some DB abstraction, and the consensess seems to be to use PEAR, http://pear.php.net

Any other suggestions welcome

We will see how we get on!

You think that all those hippies protesting about GM crops are just scaremongers?

Read this and tell me that GM crops are not a danger to society.

Monsanto Suing Farmers Over Piracy Issues

Might be interested in this earlier post.
http://www.maccarthy.org/blog/wp-trackback.php/19

I came across a couple of a couple of handy preference panels for OS X recently.

“More Internet” is a cool little panel that allows you to configure default applications for various protocols, most commonly mailto: or http:
Down load it here,
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/MoreInternet/

RCEnvironment, is a little panel that allows you to edit your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Not rocket science, but handy all the same. You can get it here..

http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/

Both freeware, not GPL unfortunatly.

Some tools to help manage your iPhoto collections..

Slim down the size of your iPhoto folder

iphotodiet

Extract your originals, duplicates etc. with
iPhotoExtractor

Split up you libraries
iPhotoLibraryManager