Leopard

8 Chrome Extensions For Web Developers (Mac too!)

I’ve been using Google Chrome as my default browser ever since 1Password came out with an extension for Chrome. The state of web browsing on the Mac still, unfortunately, leaves something to be desired. However, after using this full time for a little while I can say that I’m really liking it. As a web developer I have a need for good developer tools in a browser. For that, Firefox and Firebug will always be king of the hill. Daily browsing and light development in Chrome has been suiting my needs just fine.

The Brightbox Toolkit

It’s been quite interesting to read the recent “Tools of the Trade” meme where people are blogging what they use to do their job. I found it so interesting in fact, that I decided to find out what tools we all use at Brightbox. Here’s our list.

Caius

Hardware

Fixing MacPorts on Snow Leopard

I’ve been toying around with the idea for a small website lately, but never actually got around to do it. In an attempt to clear out my personal to do list I finally motivated myself to start yesterday, and I have to say the following combination of tools is not only insanely efficient, but also really fun to work with:

Attempted peace

I’ve been toying around with the idea for a small website lately, but never actually got around to do it. In an attempt to clear out my personal to do list I finally motivated myself to start yesterday, and I have to say the following combination of tools is not only insanely efficient, but also really fun to work with:

Installing Nokogiri on Leopard

Nokogiri is a popular (and fast) XML parsing library for Ruby. One of the reasons that it’s so fast is that it’s written in C, and makes use of the excellent libxml2 and libxslt C libraries.

I just installed the Nokogiri Ruby gem on my Mac, which runs OS X 10.5.8 (i.e. Leopard). Imagine my surprise (given that I’m supposed to be running one of the most advanced operating systems in the world!) when Nokogiri printed this message in my terminal:

Snow Leopard Ruby Development Environment Checklist / Gotchas

I’m probably a bit late to the party with this article, but I’m a bit of a chicken so I thought I’d wait for the dust to settle a bit before installing Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro I use for Ruby development.

RMagick (from source) on Snow Leopard

After the release of 10.5, I published an article about building RMagick from source on Leopard. I won’t rehash the why, you can read the original article for that. My clean install necessitated updating the RMagick script, so here’s what worked for me to install from source on Snow Leopard! For the impatient, here’s the download link: rmagick-build.sh

Snow Leopard Ruby Development Environment Checklist / Gotchas

I’m probably a bit late to the party with this article, but I’m a bit of a chicken so I thought I’d wait for the dust to settle a bit before installing Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro I use for Ruby development.

Double Shot #529

I’ll likely be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my main dev box some time next week – after I have a good bootable backup. Meanwhile, I’ve collected a bunch of links to (I hope) avoid some of the trouble spots.

Upgrading to Snow Leopard

Last Friday, Apple released their new OS version: Snow Leopard.
Upgrading to SL is very easy and even gives you back quite a lot of HD space.
However a few things have changed in the OS and you need to understand what is going on so you won't get frustrated with the updating process and won't be wasting time fighting with the system.

Snow Leopard

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