Paul Maunders | Web log

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 [...]

If, like me, you are missing wget since you upgraded to Leopard, then should set up an alias for wget to curl -O which does exactly the same thing:

echo ‘alias wget=”curl -O”‘ >> ~/.bash_profile