Posts

  • Switching from Aptana's Git implementation to eGit

    By default Aptana is configured to work with its own Git implementation meaning that whenever you add a Git repository and import it to the workspace, the default Aptana Git functionality is available in the project. The problem is, it doesn't always deliver, e.g. for GitHub, nor is it visually as complete and readable.
  • HTML5 fragmentation: WHATWG and W3C mishap

    The fragmentation of web technologies was mainly caused by the corporate interests and while it has gone nowhere, it has shown some considerable improvements over the past years. Nevertheless, today, two main open standards bodies involved in HTML5 development, WHATWG and W3C, are struggling to find the common ground.
  • phpMyAdmin configuration for macOS-bundled PHP and Apache

    If you’re not into using XAMPP/MAMP for your local development sandbox and you’d like to go with the stack that comes preinstalled on a Mac, you could have trouble configuring phpMyAdmin.

  • Installing Drush on Mac OS X the developer way

    This is a quick walkthrough of how to somewhat painlessly install the Drupal Shell – Drush.

  • Workaround for ImageMagick convert returning 5

    If you've installed ImageMagick from MacPorts, e.g. for a 32-bit Mac for which there are no prebuilt binaries, you could have seen ImageMagick not working with PHP exec() on localhost even though it works from  the command line.