Paul Maunders | Web log

Tonight it was announced that Facebook chat now supports XMPP (also known as Jabber). This means that it will work with a host of chat clients, including my personal favourite iChat.
To get it working with iChat you simply follow these steps:

Navigate to iChat > Preferences > Accounts
Click the plus icon in the bottom left hand [...]

Today I have been attempting to set up Google Calendar so that it automatically synchronises with an iPhone and also iCal on a Mac computers. It was a bit trickier than I expected, so here are some of my observations. Hopefully they will help someone else!
Google Sync 
Here are some of the main things you need [...]

If you are an iPhone developer and have been running one of the beta versions of the 3.0 firmware then you might find that iTunes will not update you to the latest official 3.0 release, as it already thinks you are using the most recent version.
It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally found out [...]

Today I’m going to be helping one of our investment companies, ByteWire set themselves up with a subversion based development environment for their Street Crime game. They will use a straight forward workflow whereby they will develop and test their code locally on their iMacs, commit working code to a subversion repository, and then check [...]

Apple held a media event today to announce the new iPhone OS 3.0 firmware update. The new software adds many new features to the iPhone including:

Copy and Paste – at last! Speaks for itself.
Bluetooth Stereo (presumably A2DP) – allowing you to stream high quality audio between devices. This will be great for in car audio systems, [...]

Just yesterday I was recommended a new text editor for the Mac. It’s called Coda and I’m loving it! Here’s why:

The layout is really nice, it makes good use of your whole screen with a single editor window.
It has an innovative “sites” feature that takes a screen shot of all your project’s home pages, which [...]

We use Macfuse to connect to our office development services. It lets us mount remote folders via SSFHS. The problem is that when we create a file via this connection, the default permissions are missing the group write bit, and so other users who connect to this system can’t write to them.
There is a fix [...]

Problem
I’ve got a Mac Mini with a broken DVD drive, but I wanted to install iWork on it from the installation DVD. 
Solution
I used the Remote Disc feature of Leopard that Apple developed for the diskless MacBook Air to share another machine’s drive over the network.
Instructions
On the client machine were you would like to use the [...]

Today I needed to use Zend Framework on my iMac’s local web server, so here’s how I installed it. 
I prefer using subversion where possible to download any open source projects, and since Zend have an svn repository available I decided to use that. 

sudo svn co http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/branches/release-1.7/library/ /usr/lib/php/libraries/zend-framework-1.7/

This will follow the latest updates to version 1.7 [...]

We’ve been desperate for a centralised calendar solution that can sync with all our desktop PCs and iPhones for a while now, and yesterday one of our developers, Matt, found a solution for us.
It combines the following technologies:

Google Calendar
iCal
calaboration
Nuevasync
iPhone
MobileMe

Essentially Google Calendar is used to provide a central calendar, this is then synced to the iPhones [...]