A Decade of Mono

Still Kicking For those who track this stuff, Mono will turn 10 years old this summer. Since June 30th 2004, the Mono team has been relentlessly trailing the ever evolving CLR (Microsoft’s implementation of the CLI), and hasn’t seemed to stop or get bored with the idea. At time of writing, they still trail a … Continued

Setting the $JAVA_HOME environment variable on OSX 10.5 or later

Setting the $JAVA_HOME environment variable on the Mac OS can be a little confusing. I hope this clears things up. Open either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile in your favorite editor. I am using TextMate and I prefer editing ~/.profile. Add “export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)” to the file and save it. You can reload the current environment without logging … Continued

Enable Apache on Mountain Lion

Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes with Apache installed but not enabled. Here are the steps to re-enable Apache 1. Open the OS X Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) 2. Create and open an Apache user configuration file named for your account in your favorite editor. I am using TextMate so I used the following command sudo mate … Continued

PHP, Eclipse and the Zend Framework

So I jumped at the idea of working on a PHP/Zend project.  I mean, who doesn’t relish the thought of developing in a weakly-typed language that seems more like a virtual explosion of the key-word and function factory than an actual language alongside a bloated, overly complex MVC framework?  Throwing caution to the wind, I … Continued