This is a straightforward guide on how to setup 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 PHP. While, webgrind is a web-based alternative to kCacheGrind, which allows you to see bottlenecks in your code represented by how much time is spent on each function either in percentages or milliseconds. Basically this will help you figure out which functions are sucking up your resources. [...]

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 would you want to remove .DS_Store files? The .DS_Store files store Finder-specific preferences concerning the display of each of your folders. Removing these files is an easy way to reset your display preferences. Also, if you’re moving files between your Mac and another operating system such as Windows or Linux these files can cause unexpected problems and should be removed prior to transfer. [...]

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 setup named-based virtual hosts in the MAMP environment. [...]

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 ago I tried to copy a bit of text and it said I needed a password! I didn’t want to type up a whole page of content so what I did was hit command + p on my Mac (or for Windows ctrl + p) and then under the “PDF” drop down menu clicked “Save as PDF…” [...]

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 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

What are virtual hosts used for?
In the case of this tutorial we will create a virtual host to let us access a subfolder on our local web server at a custom address like http://application/ or http://application.local/ instead of having to type in a longer URL like http://localhost/~shortname/application [...]

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). [...]

Since I’m on winter break and have some spare time, I thought it would be helpful if I posted a little tutorial on how to setup Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0.45 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

I recently purchased a very sleek MacBook from Apple.com, thinking to myself, why not end the year in style? Anyway, after I got all my old applications installed and some of my files moved over from my PowerMac G5 I proceeded to enable Apache2 and PHP5. Usually, I use lighttpd instead of Apache and compile everything from source but this setup was just so simple I decided not to bother with anything painstakingly long, which building from source can very well be. [...]

I’ll be up front about this, I prefer the Mac OS to Linux and Windows (and obviously all the other operating systems I neglected to mention), so a lot of these web browsers are Mac-only. Below is a list of web browsers I tested on my Apple Power Mac G5 running Mac OS X: [...]