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27
Mar

Installing PHPUnit on Snow Leopard

posted 2010 // osx // 5

Snow Leopard ships with PHP 5.3.0, which at the time of writing, is quite recent (at least it’s a milestone version with a bunch of new features). I’ve not tried to install anything previously via PEAR on my Snow Leopard install.

When I tried to install PHPUnit, I ran into a problem.
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17
Feb

A real UK keyboard layout for Snow Leopard

posted 2010 // osx // 2

Thanks to this blogger who made real UK keyboard layouts that work under Snow Leopard. I couldn’t get alternative community created UK layouts, that previously worked in Leopard, to work under Snow Leopard. Read the rest of this entry »

31
Jan

Changing user home directory under Mac OS X

posted 2010 // osx // 3

Yesterday I finally got around to removing my flakey superdrive from my Macbook Pro and replaced it with an optical bay hard disk (OBHD) from NewModeUS. This meant I was able to add another 320GB drive where my superdrive once lived (much needed as I was at 92% disk usage on my system drive). I also have an Intel X25-M 80GB to install but I’ll save that for when I have the time.
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