Archive for March, 2007

Eclipse, PHP, MySql, oh my!

March 25, 2007

LAMP: (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP). I’ve been using this configuration on and off for a long time, as have most people in the industry. My home web site is based upon it. At my new job I use LAMP more than ever before (rather than C++) so after my recent adventures with XCode and Cocoa [...]

Omnigraffle Pro

March 25, 2007

If you need a great diagraming and flowchart tool, check out OmniGraffle Pro
Here’s an example which I had to obfuscate since it was built for work:

Omnigraffle has built in templates for all the usual suspects: Org charts, Electronic circuits, databases, flowcharts, boolean gates, UML, entity relationships, GUI design, etc. You can export diagrams to [...]

XCode and Cocoa Programming

March 25, 2007

As a software developer, it obviously wasn’t going to take long before I started peering through the beautiful Mac OS X GUI to see how to program the beastie. The obvious place to start was with Apple’s own development tools.
They probably came on the DVD with your Mac, or you can register with the Apple [...]

More Hardware

March 7, 2007

Quite a bit has happened since my last post. First I’ll deal with the hardware changes and then address the software in another post.
Having some spare cash (tax refunds are great things!) I decided to beef up my Mini a bit. I went to Other World Computing who were doing some great deals on mini [...]