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MySQL Pulled From Mac OS X Lion

Mike — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:41:47 +0000

Apple-based LAMP developers be warned: the new version of OS X does not include MySQL, which was formerly part of the developer tools shipped with the operating system. In its place look for deliciously Oracle-free PostgreSQL. Of course, developers can and will continue to download MySQL and install it themselves, but the out-of-box experience moving forward will be with PostgreSQL.

Although it is still an extremely popular database, Oracle’s presence in the MySQL world has put a chill over business users considering using the product as the backbone of their data solutions. Other databases with similar purposes exists but none have the deep community boasted by PostgreSQL.

BrowsrCamp – Test Web Designs on Mac

Mike — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:19 +0000

At last, remote desktop has a practical use!

If you are working on a web design and need to see how it will look on Mac, your only choice up until now has been to buy a low-end Mac. That’s an expensive proposition for occasional use. If you’re a web designer by trade you are probably already using a Mac anyway, but for the rest of us there is finally a better choice.

Head on over to BrowsrCamp – for a pittance ($3 gets you 2 days of access) you get to control a machine running OS X.

You can use VNC to connect to the server; if you don’t have or can’t install VNC, BrowsrCamp offers a web interface so you can access the machine directly from your browser.

It’s such a simple, wonderfully executed concept that should be in any programmer’s bag of tricks.

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