http://woshiadai.blogsome.com happy coding ;-) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:17:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It took me quite some trouble to get imagick working on the snow leopard.  First, I tried to install xampp and mamp, which are two easy ways to get PHP, apache, mysql up and running. I used to have no issue with xampp, but the snow leopard has problems with locally ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/11/11/set-up-php-and-apache-on-snow-leopard/ Finally, I decided to do the upgrade. It was not as smooth as it looks, especially that I turned on 64 bit as default. Normally, SL runs in 32 bit mode, you need to hold 6 and 4 keys during the boot process to get into 64 bit mode. But ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/10/31/upgrading-to-snow-leopard/ Netbeans has been making a lot of progress since version 6 and the latest 6.7 RC3 is even better. For those Eclipse fans, I strongly suggest that you check out Netbeans. It feels much faster and consumes less memory. The plugins are more organized and easy to manage (I think ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/06/26/subversion-setup-in-netbeans-67-rc3/ I have been using Mac for quite a while, but did not have much time to explore many of its features. Today, I managed to find how to do easy VNC to my linux box using Screen Share application, a hidden treasure. First, follow the instructions here to set up the ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/06/19/screen-sharing/ Used to have an issue with Imagick when I convert ICO image into png. Somehow when I create the Imagick object from image content string, the final result is a crappy image. But when I create the Imagick object directly from a file, it works fine, with only the problem ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/06/18/ico-image-processing-with-imagick/ Start to learn how to do profiling and optimization for PHP code. Found Kcachegrind is handy to visualize XDebug data. There are other similar cachegrind tools: 1. Kcachegrind: you can get it from Macports, check out this if you don’t know how to get started with Macports. Note this might take ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/05/19/cachegrind-for-mac/ If you have a PNG with transparency and then you want to convert it to a GIF with transparency preserved. Since GIF has only 1-bit transparency, the edge will look jacky. However, if you know a color that will be used as solid background color or an average color for ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/transparent-gif-with-smooth-edge-using-imagick/ update: just found an easier way to create a transparent canvas so, you can pretty much ignore all these options listed below now $im = new Imagick(); $im->newImage(100, 200, new ImagickPixel('transparent')); // use this predefined transparent color string $im->setImageFormat('png32'); //$im->setImageFormat('gif'); //$im->setImageFormat('jpg'); // note that jpg does not support transparency, so you see a default black ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/04/03/use-imagick-to-create-images-with-transparent-canvas/ Getting interested in iPhone development after I hacked a 2G iPhone recently. Just ordered Programming in Objective-C 2.0 from Amazon, Objective-C seems to be a quite difficult yet powerful language with a lot of nice OO features. Here are two nice tutorials from Cocoa Dev Central: 1. C Language Tutorial for Cocoa 2. ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2009/03/21/iphone/ There are different options to install/use PHP on Mac Leopard: use the default installation, use MacPort to install, or use XAMPP. I like the all-in-one bundle XAMPP, it is easy to manage and includes most commonly used options. So, I use it for the most of the time. However, when I ... http://woshiadai.blogsome.com/2008/12/27/imagick-for-xampp-on-mac-leopard/