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Set media=print Using The CakePHP CSS HtmlHelper
It seemed so simple, yet it took forever to figure this one out. I’ve been using CakePHP for several projects lately, and I’m really enjoying using it. But much of the documentation is lacking. Luckily there are plenty of blogs detailing the progress of this framework and what can be done with it. But I [...]

Hidden Files in OS X Finder - No Terminal Hacking With Path Finder
I posted a way to show hidden files in OS X’s Finder a while back and have found a much better option that I thought I’d share. Path Finder from cocoatech is an amazing app, and even with the improvements to the Finder in Leopard, Path Finder still blows it out of the water. Five [...]

Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
With the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent (but not robust) installation of PHP 5.2.4 is ready to go - it only needs to be uncommented in the Apache configuration file. The [...]

Save Time (and code) Using Virtual Hosts For Local OS X Web Development With mod_rewrite
UPDATE: This tutorial was written for OS X 10.4 and parts of it are no longer necessary with OS X 10.5. See this post for details. Using a few built-in tools in OS X, I’ve found a great way to develop sites as Virtual Hosts on Apache. If you are a web developer working on a [...]

Show Hidden Files in OS X's Finder
In web development on the Apache web server, a common configuration file used in nearly every site we build is the .htaccess file. But in OS X, you can’t see it in the Finder - hidden files (files which start with a dot “.”) are unavailable unless you use the Unix command line. I did [...]