MacDevCenter.com: Panther Maintenance Tips
Have you noticed that over the life span of a system software release, such as Jaguar, things just don’t run as smoothly as in the beginning? At some point, we become thankful that a new release is on the way so we can just “start over.”
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MacDevCenter.com: Secure Mail Reading on Mac OS X
Apple has been evolving Mail.app, OS X’s bundled email client, at about the same pace as the rest of the system.
I’ve always appreciated the program for its solid IMAP support (rather a rare attribute among mail clients in general). But recently I’ve started to like it even more since it began supporting super-secure mail-reading protocols that help to stop bad guys from nabbing my passwords.
MacDevCenter.com: Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1
After reading the chapters Chris Stone contributed to Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, I asked him to write a couple of articles for the Mac DevCenter because I believe that understanding the Terminal application adds value to Mac OS X. These tutorials give you a preview of what Chris has covered in the book.
Minimizing how often you see “Optimizing System Performance” during software installation
Standalone package installation files
Simply open more than one installation package file at the same time. The Installer application will queue up the packages and install them in order. This even works with third-party package files that use Installer. After the last package is installed, Installer performs optimization on the computer, but usually just one time. Beats optimizing after each package, doesn’t it?
switched to HC layout
Software Change – PHP
Manual install of Marc Liyanage PHP package
Disabled PHP via Server Admin
Manual install – installer -verbose -pkg phpblah.pkg -target /
Commands added to the end of httpd.conf by the installer
Reverting to standard is easy – comment out trailing PHP stuff. enable via Server Admin
So far it works – including GD – the whole point this time
We’re moved – new post
A True Tale of an Xserve install
Notes of the install process for the new AFP548 XserveA discussion of some best practices for installing servers. Specifically those bound for co-locations facilities, but good ideas for any install. [AFP548 Full Feed]
A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 2
The first part of this article introduced you to the php.ini file, explained its structure, and showed you how to adjust PHP’s search path, error handling, and parser options. This second part goes deeper into the configuration file, covering topics such as how to activate PHP’s extensions, setting resource limits for your PHP scripts, and altering configuration variables on the fly through a PHP script.
A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 1
You don’t often need to fiddle with PHP’s settings—the language usually works fine with its out-of-the-box configuration. But the creators of PHP, being developers themselves, were well aware that users might occasionally need to tweak the language’s behavior for specialized applications. That’s why they exposed a number of PHP’s variables through a configuration file, called php.ini.