Update: Before using this library, see PHP Excel that has support for more recent formats of XLS and Office 2007′s xlsx format.
Tuning Eclipse is pretty straight forward, passing the commonly documented command line arguments when running Eclipse on Mac OS X is not. At least not as easy as it would be in Windows. Like Windows shortcuts we have OS X ‘aliases’ but these do not allow us to specify additional arguments.
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Having recently switched to Mac OS X, I stumbled upon issues when mounting shared folders on my Macbook Pro from our linux development server. Previously, both Windows Vista and Ubuntu have had no trouble sharing a directory then mounting it from the dev server via smbfs. This enables me (and other developers) to edit files locally which then also appear as a local files to our development server, where we run Apache / MySQL etc.
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If you choose not to sign up for MobileMe, there is no option in preferences to remove the sync icon (which you will never use) from the menu bar.
Fortunately, holding the Command (Apple) key and dragging the icon to the desktop should detach and remove it.
I started writing this post some months ago back in September but never got around to finishing it. At first this post was going to be me singing my praises for Ubuntu and how well Ubuntu supports the Macbook Pro. Unfortunately in that time I’ve now moved to Mac OS X…
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Not long now until Ibex is released. However, I ran into this issue again this morning so I thought I’d document the solution for others.
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