Today’s post is short and Mac-centric. Learning keyboard short cuts can shave seconds off of each point and click with a mouse, making you slightly more productive with your limited browsing time. Learn them, love them, learn to love them. There are Windows and Linux friendly keyboard equivalents to many of these bindings, many replace Command with Ctrl.
Without exaggeration single button deploys and one line installs have changed my dev life. Read on to find out why. I’ll note a few of the configuration management tools I use on OS X and why I chose them towards the end of the post.
I’ve been spoiled by CouchBase which comes with a prepackaged OS X app. It includes a sharp C logo, which sits nicely on my Dock bar (not to be confused with a dickbar*). The database server is ready to launch up with a click although I prefer the relaxing couch image of couchdbx.
But while whipping through a nodejs walkthrough which was homework for last year’s Node.js Camp, I ran into a slight snag. Everything worked fine, but I wanted a Mac OS X clickable app to fire up redis with a Terminal log showing access. Below is the walkthrough homework: (more…)
This is a continuation of my exploration of developing a Mac OS X application, particularly a MacRuby app which has been designed well with deep integration into Cocoa objects implemented in objective C. The series is now two posts strong 
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This is the first post in a series on understanding the basics of developing for the Mac platform. As I proceed with building the app, I’ll share helpful documentation and discoveries along the way.
This morning I determined it was a good time to check for a new release and build for chromium. Low and behold my handy ChromiumUpdater from an old TechCrunch post or a zipped dmg failed to function. I went back to the post via a LifeHacker mention but the script was gone. It was time I dig in a little and find out precisely what the application was doing to see where it was going wrong. After all, how hard could remaking a little copy and install script be?