Northern Ireland creative resources: Blogs, events, free wi-fi
Sometimes it’s hard to find out what’s happening in the web/tech scene in Northern Ireland so here’s a list of useful sites that I recommend you keep track of so you don’t miss out.
Connecting to MAMP in Windows using Parallels on a Mac
I use MAMP for running Apache, MySQL and PHP on the Mac. A simple click and all 3 are up and running in 5 seconds and you can easily configure your ports and root folder.
However, I was having trouble accessing my MAMP server through Parallels. I use Parallels to test my sites on Internet Explorer and it’s pretty important that I’m able to do this in development before going live.
I found this excellent solution from Tim Fletcher and thought I’d summarize it below so you too can get testing your Wordpess, CodeIgniter, PHP sites etc. through Parallels.
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15 mac apps web designers should have in their dock
Back in June when I was converting from a PC to a MacBook Pro (best decision I ever made) I asked around to see what apps people recommended for the Mac. There are a lot of nice apps available for Mac OSX that aren’t available for Windows.
I’ve compiled a list of Mac Apps I have in my OSX dock that I use on a daily basis and should be useful to other Mac users and/or web designers.
How to connect to a MAMP MySQL database using CocoaMySQL
I came across this problem when I converted to a Mac and I was trying to connect to a MySQL database on MAMP using CocoaMySQL. CocoaMySQL wasn’t able to connect to the database. Thought the solution may be useful to others.