Macs

Topics specific to the Apple Mac platform.

macports is not darwinports

Posted by Michael on June 23, 2009 in Macs, Setups, Systems

For those of you who don’t keep a close eye on the macports system that provides you with convenient builds of popular open source software, let me put you on guard: macports supplanted darwinports a few years back to avoid continued confusion over the name.
I was having a good bit of trouble getting ports [...]

Converting Oddmuse Wiki to Edgewall Trac

Posted by Michael on October 2, 2008 in Macs, Programming, Python Language, Ruby Language, SQL

Our company began long ago with wiki’s, but we chose the Oddmuse wiki way back when. These days, we’re heavy users of Trac wiki because of its integrated ticket support system. So what to do with all those old wiki’s that folks have stopped using and reading. The Oddmuse wikis still hold [...]

Why Macs?

Posted by Michael on May 8, 2008 in Macs, Systems

For Years, I have used nothing but Microsoft Windows desktops and my development effort was 100% Windows based systems. Long story, short, lets just say I knew way more about the inner bowels of Windows and its various API’s than I will ever care to recall nowadays. Around 2001, I realized “The Web” [...]