I was having some trouble getting my ML110 Proliant lab server to boot from a USB drive that I had created with UnetBootin on my Mac. Initially, I thought it was a problem with the ML110 server, but it turns out that Unetbootin does not currently make a fully bootable USB stick in OSX. The [...]
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Installing Ansible on OSX Lion
We’re currently evaluating configuration management (devops) tools at CATN to help us deploy and manage our new vCluster hosting platform in a production environment. Many of the tools we have looked at are fairly complicated, with a steep learning curve. Then we came across, Ansible. It’s developed primarily by the guy who wrote Cobbler (our [...]
Shared Calendars on the Mac & iPhone with Google Sync
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 [...]
How to upgrade iphone 3.0 beta to full official release
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 [...]
Developing with Subversion, Unfuddle and OSX
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 [...]
iPhone 3.0 Software Update
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 [...]
The Ultimate OS X Text Editor – Coda
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 [...]
Changing the default Umask on OSX Leopard
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 [...]
Sharing a CD/DVD drive over the network with OS X
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 [...]
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