Category Archives: Mac

November 14, 2010

Importing a csv into MySQL using the command line– also posted in Databases

UPDATE 16th Nov 2010: I had some issues with the import which I noted in the first code example below Today I had to import csv into a single mysql table. The destination table only had 5 columns and the csv was around 22MB (around 400,000 records). The csv also contained more columns that I [...]

October 4, 2010

Case sensitive development on Mac OS X– also posted in Databases

At work most of the developers are on Mac OS X but our staging and production environments are Linux based. This means development is case insensitive but stage/production is case sensitive. Although we have development guidelines/standards which dictate file and database naming conventions etc, human error can still occur (in terms of referencing files with [...]

August 6, 2008

Getting Inkscape (0.46) to run on Mac Leopard– also posted in Tools

Inscape is a fantastic open source vector graphics tool which can be a nice alternative to Adobe’s Illustrator. Getting it to run on the Mac took a couple of extra steps though. Firstly the download page advises that you upgrade X11.app to at least XQuartz v2.1.4. This is a large-ish download which forces you to [...]

July 22, 2008

How do you lock your screen on a Mac?– also posted in Tools

Call me crazy, but it doesn’t seem like you can “natively” lock your screen on a Mac like you can on Windows. Very odd and annoying as it’s something I do everytime I leave my workstation, I’ve even had to agree to a policy that I will never leave my workstation open as I have [...]