Tag Archives: Apple

Apple iPad and the Need to Buy One

I will pre-order an Apple iPad the day they are available for pre-sale, or regular order on the day if they are immediately available for purchase.  I am thinking about getting the WiFi model first to use for development, and then later getting the WiFi + 3G model for everyday use.
I’ve already begun switching over [...]

Snow Leopard PHP and IMAP Support

Seeing as how the stock Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard PHP 5.3 doesn’t come with IMAP extension support, I realized it was time to add it in to build a tool to extract data from my gmail account emails. Here is the steps I took to get it installed and working.
Step 1:
Download [...]

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 [...]

4 Books to Learn Programming on the Mac.

Learn C on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1809-6]
Own 1 copy, reading first.
Learn Objective-C on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1815-0]
Own 1 copy.
Learn Cocoa on the Mac
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1859-2]
Pre-ordered 1 copy.
Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
[ISBN10: 1-4302-1626-3]
Own 1 copy.
These are the books I’ll be reading to get myself firmly involved into iPhone software development.  I have created 1 small application for [...]