Setting up a new local WordPress development environment on Mac OSX can utilize a number of different solutions with varying levels of complexity you can roll your own solution using some of OSX in built Apache and PHP, or Homebrew. Then there are pre-built AMP(Apache, MySQL & PHP) stacks; free ones XAMPP, Bitnami, MAMP and then …
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How to Write to NTFS External Disk Drives from OS X 10.11 El Capitan
By default you can’t write to Windows NTFS hard disk and USB drives as they appear as read only on OS X 10.11 users desktops. You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click …
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Download and Install WordPress 4.0 Beta2 with wp-cli on OSX
With the new version of WordPress 4.0 Beta2 available to download and test, here’s how to use wp-cli to download and configure it all from the Terminal, you need to have wp-cli and MySQL installed as well as the rest of a working AMP stack. Launch Terminal and [optionally] create and change directory into your …
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How to Write to NTFS External Disk Drives from OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks
By default you can’t write to Windows NTFS hard disk and USB drives as they appear as read only on the Desktop’s of OS X 10.9 users workstations – which is a bit of a pain in the ass! You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will …
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Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
Get your Local Web Development Server Up & Running on OSX 10.9 Mavericks With the new OSX Mavericks being installed faster than any predecessor, getting the AMP stack running on OSX 10.9 Mavericks is is pretty much the same as on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin running on the …
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Upgrading to Ruby 2 on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
An older version of Ruby ships with OSX by default, the version is 1.8.7 which is now officially retired by its developers. To upgrade to the latest stable version of Ruby, you going to need Xcode and Homebrew installed first, Xcode does the heavy lifting for compiling programs and Homebrew works as the package manager …
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Connect to Amazon S3 Bucket from the Command Line in OS X
Connecting your Mac OSX to AmazonS3 buckets. This process requires a couple of Unix tools installed, s3cmd and gpg (optional), s3cmd is the command line tool used to connect to Amazon S3 and gpg is an optional secure tool allowing data transfer to be encrypted over HTTPS between you and Amazon. This guide uses Homebrew …
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How to Write to NTFS External Disk Drives from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
By default you can’t write to Windows NTFS hard disk and USB drives as they appear as read only on the Desktop’s of OS X users – which is a bit of a pain in the ass! You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all …
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