Install php and mysql using brew

$ brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
$ brew install php54
$ brew install mysql
$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Setup apache with a virtual document root

By doing this you don’t have to create new virtual host settings for new sites. The url you enter will be automatically mapped to the folder with the same name on your disk.

NameVirtualHost *:80

<Directory '/Users/your-username/Sites/'>
  Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks Includes
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  UseCanonicalName off
  VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/your-username/Sites/%1
</VirtualHost>

Start Apache and MySQL

$ sudo apachectl restart
$ mysql.server start

// Listen to the event that occurs when an empty page is loaded
// through GetPageDefaultPageData() e.g. when creating a page
DataFactory.Instance.LoadedDefaultPageData += Instance_LoadedDefaultPageData;

static void Instance_LoadedDefaultPageData(object sender, PageEventArgs e)
{
    // Clear the page's categories
    e.Page.Category.Clear();
}

I built Googly with simplicity in mind. It integrates nicely into the OSX notification center, so that for example notifications are disabled when in presentation mode. Later, you can just open the notification sidebar and click on each mail you’ve missed individually to open it in your default browser.

Except for navigation through the notification sidebar you can also click on the menu bar icon and see the unread mail count per account and open each account individually. It works with multiple accounts and hosted as not hosted accounts.

That’s what there is to it. So far. The app has only been tested in OSX Mountain Lion and only by a few people, so please be tolerant to bugs you may find and report them here or mail me directly.

Download Googly 1.0

 public class MyActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider : System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider
    {
        public override System.Web.Security.MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByName(string usernameToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords)
        {
            return base.FindUsersByName(usernameToMatch.Replace("%", "*"), pageIndex, pageSize, out totalRecords);
        }

        public override System.Web.Security.MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByEmail(string emailToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords)
        {
            return base.FindUsersByEmail(emailToMatch.Replace("%", "*"), pageIndex, pageSize, out totalRecords);
        }
    }

Remember to change provider in web.config!

// Become observe of the did wake notification
[[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] notificationCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(receivedWakeNote:) name:NSWorkspaceDidWakeNotification object:nil];

- (void)receivedWakeNote: (NSNotification *)notification {
    // Code here
}

Send a notification to the notification center in OSX Mountain Lion

    NSUserNotification *notification = [[NSUserNotification alloc] init];
    notification.title = @"Notification";
    notification.subtitle = @"Hello world";
    notification.soundName = NSUserNotificationDefaultSoundName;

    [[NSUserNotificationCenter defaultUserNotificationCenter] deliverNotification:notification];

Create that nice looking sliding down window used in the Twitter app amongst many

The sliding window is actually called a sheet. Here’s an example for when you have two windows within the same view controller:

// Activate the sheet
[NSApp beginSheet:_windowToSlideDown modalForWindow:self.window modalDelegate:self didEndSelector:nil contextInfo:nil];

// Close the sheet
[NSApp endSheet:self.accountDetailsSheet];
[self.accountDetailsSheet close];

<?php

// Absolut path to irssi log files
$log_dir = "/home/kim/.irssi/logs/localhost";
// Regex for log files to exclude
$exclude_channels = "auth.log|q.log|_status.log";
// Number of channels to include in the report
$number_of_channels = 10;
// Number of lines per channels to include
$number_of_lines = 10;

$lines = shell_exec('
  ls `find '.$log_dir.' -type f -print` --sort=t |
  egrep -v "'.$exclude_channels.'" |
  head -n'.$number_of_channels.' |
  xargs tail -n'.$number_of_lines);

echo "<pre>$lines</pre>";

?>

Tip: You can include multiple log dirs, just separate the paths in $log_dir by a space.

Let’s start off with vim. First of all, Vim is useless to me without the power pack Janus. On top of this, I’ve added the fancy Powerline from Lokaltag, and some nice colors from Hybrid by w0ng. If I only knew some good way to work with .NET-development through VIM, I probably would have uninstalled all other text editors by now.

Irssi

Yes, and then there’s Irssi. I really just have one word for you here – Pbrisbin. I’ve made a couple of tweaks to it, but nothing important really. Here’s a list of all the plugins I use: adv_windowlist.pl, bitlbee_typing_notice.pl, hide.pl, link_titles.pl, nm.pl,  trackbar.plbitlbee_tab_completion.pl, facebook_bitlbee_rename.pl, hilightwin.pl  nicklist.pl, queryresume.pl, usercount.pl. I think most of these can be found at Irssi scripts.

OSX Terminal

Nothing of the above will look right without the right terminal settings. w0ng has instructions on the hybrid theme page above on how to setup the colors for X11. I followed those instructions, plus some extra tweaks to get the terminal look right in OSX. Or even better, in my opinion (everything looks better in OSX ;)). Here’s the Terminal theme if you’re feeling lazy. The font I use is Liberation Mono 11 pt. Yes, and all should work through SSH, since the screens above are actually taken using SSH to a Linux machine.

Transmit

Before last post I spent some time exploring the options for mounting ssh drives through CLI. This time I went nuts and bought what seemed to be the best GUI alternative – Transmit. Although I haven’t even tried the built-in remote site explorer yet, I can safely say it was worth the money considering how often I need to mount various remote drives to my local machine.

App Store or http://panic.com/transmit/

Textual IRC Client

Still an IRC junkie like me? Sure, I still don’t know any more talented irc client than irssi. But terminal has its drawbacks, and sometimes it’s nice to lay eyes on something more easing for the eyes. Textual is really the sleekest GUI alternative I found after a 10 minutes research!

App Store or http://codeux.com/textual/

This is the simple solution that worked for me – without any GUI-crap. Just uninstall everything you have tried before, make sure you got Homebrew, and open a terminal:

1. brew install fuse4x
2. brew install sshfs
3. Follow the instructions from brew info fuse4x-kext
4. mkdir mountpoint
5. sshfs user@domain.com:/dir mountpoint