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How to set up Xdebug with webgrind for PHP Performance Profiling on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:01:31 +0000

This is a straightforward guide on how to set up and use Xdebug 2.1.1 with webgrind 1.0 for PHP Performance Profiling on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Xdebug is a powerful debugging and profiling tool...

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How to set up Apache, PHP, & MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:00:53 +0000

This is a tutorial on how to set up Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, and MySQL 5.5 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. For Leopard instructions read How to set up Apache, PHP, & MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard....

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How to set up Xdebug with webgrind for PHP Performance Profiling on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:22:36 +0000

This is a straightforward guide on how to set up and use Xdebug 2.0.4 with webgrind 1.0 for PHP Performance Profiling on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Xdebug is a powerful debugging and profiling tool for...

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Time management is a waste of time!

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:46 +0000

For those of you who didn’t learn your lesson in, The No BS Guide To Getting Things Done, here is something further to waste your time reading. Hopefully this will point you in the right...

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The No BS Guide To Getting Things Done

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:41:06 +0000

Step 1: Stop reading this and do what you need to do! If you’re still reading this stop! Seriously, quit wasting your time with blogs and other distractions and just get to work. Focus, focus,...

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How to recursively remove .DS_Store files on Mac OS X

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:39:49 +0000

The following command will remove all .DS_Store files in a directory where it is executed as well as that particular directory’s subdirectories: find . -name '*.DS_Store' -type f -delete Why...

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How to set up virtual hosts in the MAMP environment

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:21 +0000

I don’t personally use the MAMP application nor do I condone its use. However, a reader posted a comment asking how to setup virtual hosts within MAMP. So here you go: A simple guide on how to...

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How to copy password protected PDF data or content

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:22:18 +0000

I find that when I read a PDF document on my computer I like to take notes. Sometimes I get really lazy and just copy and paste chunks of text into a text file for future reference. But just a moment...

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How to set up virtual hosts on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:03:59 +0000

This is a simple guide on how to setup name-based virtual hosts in Apache on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). This tutorial is intended as a supplement to my article, How to setup Apache, PHP, & MySQL...

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How to change a file’s last modified and creation dates on Mac OS X

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:00:57 +0000

This a very simple guide on how to change a file’s date modified and date created attributes on Mac OS X (this should work on both 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard). Date Format Key: YYYY –...

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