In my last post I mentioned that I would be putting up a beta sign-up form for Skweegee. Well, that time has come. At long last! Im going to keep the number of testers in the private beta very limited, so dont wait! And please, if you dont have time to test and submit feedback and bugs, dont sign up. You will end up taking the spot of someone who has the time and willingness to help.
Thats right, its NOT dead! I have been getting quite a few emails over the last several months prodding me to get something released. And thank God for them! I finally got off my ass and spent some time getting it ready to go. After one and a half years, 2 frameworks, 2 ORMS, and 3 re-writes, Im about ready to open the private beta! The SVN repo is closed right now but Im going to open it up after we complete the private beta.
I had the need the other day for a simple horizontal bar graph. I didnt want to mess with a flash based solution so I found some CSS based graphs and decided to create a ColdBox plugin for them so I can use them again later on.
So I wanted to post them here for anyone that might be interested in using them. The CSS is not my work, it was borrowed from here. Lets take a look at what they look like and how easy they are to use shall we?
The most visited post on my blog is the post regarding a fix for getting MySQL to run on Leopard. Today,Charlie Jackson posted a comment to that post with a fix he discovered for getting the preference pane to work so you no longer have to start/stop MySQL via the commandline. So that it wouldnt be buried in the comments, I decided to post it here.
After upgrading, I found that there are a few incompatibilities with several applications. Thats to be expected I guess. The two biggies for me is CF 8 and MySQL. I havent managed to get CF 8 running yet but I found a fix for MySQL. It seems that the preference pane will not work to start or stop MySQL yet so you will have to start it manually from the command line and create a link to the socket file.
First, start MySQL in a terminal window with the following command:
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld
Then either close the terminal and open a new one, or just hit Command-N to open a new terminal window. Then type the following:
sudo mkdir /var/mysql/
And lastly, create a symbolic link to point the default socket file:
sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
I will keep posting things as I find problems and fixes.
Charlie Jackson posted a fix for getting the preference pane to work. I have posted a write up of the fix here.
Recent Comments