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Mac OS X Snow Leopard, PHP, MySQL, SVN, Xcode, and Me…

With minimal effort, I was able to get the PHP bundled with Snow Leopard to use the PHP extensions that I had compiled for xdebug, imagick, and magickwand to run in 64bit mode.

Snow Leopard comes bundled with Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.3.0, and SVN 1.6.2.

I upgraded my MySQL install from 5.0.77 to 5.1.37 and then moved my data folder to another location to help keep things sane using the /etc/my.cnf file.

I installed the Xcode from the Snow Leopard CD and downloaded the iPhone SDK 3.1 Beta 3 for Snow Leopard.  Slightly different interface, but I welcome the changes.

So now, instead of using external packages for SVN and PHP (Entropy), now I’m using the prepackaged bundled software.  I did have to reconfigure my svn connection in Apache as it got toasted in the upgrade to Snow Leopard.  It wasn’t a problem though as it was only a few lines.

Now I can sleep good, I hope.

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iPhone Books, Amazon Kindle DX, and XCode, Oh My!

Still waiting on a few more books to ship from Amazon to study more iPhone application development. Considering getting a Kindle DX to put all my eBook versions of the printed books onto, so that I can read outside from the MacBook and the second monitor.  Allowing those screens to be put to better use of iPhone app programming.

Plan to upgrade to the new iPhone when it’s released, so that I can use my first generation iPhone as the debugging/testing phone and the other for real day to day things.

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Looking for a Great 2D/3D Artist.

I’m looking for a good 2D/3D artist to help with artwork for a few game ideas on the iPhone.

I do like the cell shading look, and that might be my ultimate style I go with.  If you have skills with designs in these aspects, I would love to hear from you.

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Subversion + Mac OS X Leopard + XCode 3 = Faster Coding

I have set up Subversion to store the repos of my iPhone apps I’m developing on my Mac system.  Now all I need to do is begin working on a core for my apps that I can use as the basis for all future apps.

If anyone has any trouble setting up Subversion on the Mac to use with XCode, here is a place to start:

ADC – Using Subversion with XCode 3 on Mac OS X Leopard

Subversion with Mac OS X Tutorial

How to setup a Subversion server on OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

SVN, Apache2, OS X Leopard 10.5

Also note, that if you download and install the Subversion 1.5+ binary if you choose to use the newer version, be sure to direct to the proper mod_dav_svn.so file in the /opt/subversion/lib/svn-apache/ directory and not the /usr/libexec/apache2 directory. If you don’t, then you will get the following “Could not open the requested SVN filesystem” error on any repos created with svn higher than 1.4+ that comes preloaded with the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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