Posts Tagged ‘Unix’

Mac OS X Lion Terminal Theme: Peppermint

29/09/2011

I do a lot of work in Mac OS X’s Terminal.app, and I’ve spent some time tweaking the colors, font, and other settings to get it just right. The result is Peppermint, a Terminal theme for Lion:

Coda Shell Script

24/02/2011

As noted in a previous article, I use Panic’s Coda editor heavily. Inspired by Aditya Bhargava’s Perl script Command-Line Coda, I wrote a shell script version for my own use. The usage is really simple. To launch Coda from a command line prompt: > coda Or, to open a file in Coda: > coda file.txt To open multiple files: > coda file1.txt file2.txt Note that if one or more of the files don’t exist, they will be created for you. [...]

Virtual Hosts in Apache

16/09/2009

I usually find it convenient to develop my websites and Web applications locally before pushing them to the production server. Mac OS X conveniently comes with the Apache Web server pre-installed. In fact, all you really need to do to start using it is to check the “Web Sharing” checkbox in System Preferences… > Sharing. You can then use your Web browser to navigate to http://localhost/, and you should see whatever files are in your Web root. The default Web [...]