A little under a year ago I wrote a walkthrough: Set up a Self Signed Certificate on macOS's Built in Apache.
Recently a new tool showed up called mkcert has come and made life way easier.
It's a wonderful tool that instead of building Self-Signed Certificates, sets your local machine up with a ce…
While trying to compile PHP extensions after installing macOS Mojave, I was butting up against a ton of missing header file errors including php.h and zlib.
After several hours of beating my head against my desk and Googling/Stack Overflowing I found the solution.
Ends up you just need to force re…
I recently purchased a .app domain for a side project; .app domains are interesting as they require SSL at all times.
I like to set up my dev environments as subdomains of my actual domain, such as local.donatstudios.com. It makes working with CORS and cookies a lot simpler for applications with A…
I have a quite large iTunes library, and I’m rather anal about keeping my metadata clean and up to date. In an earlier release of iTunes 12 there was a bug. Every so often after a song played, the Play Count would fail to increment, but the Last Played would update.
Searching my library, I found 7…
Should you run into errors related to missing php.h or other .h files, you should check out my post on fixing missing headers on macOS Mojave.
These directions are for working with the native installation of PHP. Your results may vary if you are using a brew, MAMP or otherwise installed version of…
Every time I would upgrade OS X it took probably 45 minutes of fiddling with my Apache configuration to get it working properly. I'm writing this article in the hopes of saving myself and others some time.
The Setup
For the following examples, {username} represents your username.
Firstly, if you…
I previously showed you how to Load a Github Gist with Composer, but sometimes you need to install code that isn't isn't even in a public facing VCS.
I for instance wanted to use a library only distributed by Zip.
It's actually fairly easy! In your composer.json file, you simply add a repositories…
A little over a year ago I wrote a post about using Beyond Compare on Mac via Wine. A native version is now in beta and open to everyone! If you haven't tried Beyond Compare, I suggest you do. If you have you already know how awesome it is.
I've been testing the Alpha for many months now and thoug…
Composer is amazing for pulling in packages, but what if you find a Gist that isn't Composer aware? Fear not, as Composer has the magical ability to pull in repositories not explicitly set up in Packagist by defining them in the "repositories" section.
But what if you wanted to load a single class…
Please Note
This tutorial only covers the default PHP installation that ships with Mac OS X / macOS. If you have installed a new installation this does not cover you.
For those using brew, you can simply brew install the appropriate brew formula for the extension.
These directions are verified t…
If you are running OS X El Capitan or newer you will need to disable System Integrity Protection to modify system files and directories.
To disable System Integrity Protection, boot into recovery mode by restarting and then holding ⌘R as you hear the startup chime. Then start the Terminal from the…
I switched from Windows to Mac for work a little over a year ago (I've been using Macs at home for years) and there is one program I still could not live without - Scooter Software's wonderful Beyond Compare. I've tried every single diff tool available and none have lived up to Beyond Compare. It t…
