Figuring out all the OSXisms

Robby Russell — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:04:00 -0500

I have been sick since I got back from Los Angeles. I’m finally hoping that this is the tail end of that. (coughs)

This afternoon, I decided to start dialing in my new PowerBook. The last one that I had, I didn’t do too much development on, as it was primarily for some simple Rails testing and working on my book. However, after spending the past few months on it, I might as well start using my new laptop for more development work.

So, I’m kicking osx and trying to figure it all out. GCC? Where do I find that? Oh, XCode, Darwin Ports, Fink… so many options.. what is the best setup in your opinion? I’d also like to figure out how to get Open Office installed on this machine.

My girlfriend got a new iBook two days before I got my new PowerBook. So, these are really our first Apple machines. (the one that I had prior to this one didn’t count… I just dealt with it being a cheap laptop that had Word on it… I’d prefer to just pretend that my annoyances with the screen be forgotten… yes, I was the guy in the cafe hitting the screen to get it to display right) heh

I got PostgreSQL installed, but the postgres and postgres-pr adapters are not working. So, I am working through that. So, I find myself working over SSH to a remote PostgreSQL server. (not as efficient for being mobile)

Okay, XCode is finished installing… wish me luck

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Figuring out all the OSXisms