I just re-installed my MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) from scratch. However, it's more than just putting in the DVD and doing an upgrade.. This post is more a reminder for myself when I'll have to do it again!

For MySQL you'll need newer versions installed on MacOS 10.4 of the popular GNU tools: automake, autoconf, bison and libtool. Otherwise you'll notice it doesn't really compile. You'll find URLs here below and download the latest versions.
Additionally I needed to install pkgconfig because /usr/local/bin/autoreconf just failed for the ndb-connectors! Don't ask me why, I just found while googling for it..

I did install everything under /usr/local and changed my $PATH in ~/.bash_profile to PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Quick "one liner" for shell to check on the version of the build tools:
shell> for p in automake autoconf bison pkg-config; do echo -n "$p: " ; $p --version | head -n1; done; glibtool …

First of all: Happy New Year everyone! For reasons I don't understand, or maybe no reason at all, there are a couple thousand of you who end up here every day (actually, closer to 4000 a day but many end up on old archive pages and, I'm guessing, quickly leave).

By now you've probably seen the oh so promising Apple iPhone. Woah, does that thing look neat!

I'm attached to my Treo, but I think I found my upgrade. I might even switch to Cingular for it, at least if they get an unlimited data plan that's not vastly super-duper overpriced. Heck, with the beautiful "visual voicemail" feature I might switch to Cingular anyway.

One thing that I'll occasionally will be missing is, of course, an ssh client which brings me to the big question: Will Apple provide an SDK and let us install …

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As a dealnews web developer, you will help maintain our current stable of deal and price-tracking web sites, and build new features and new web sites as we continue to grow. You’ll be part of a small, fast-moving team of developers that are involved at every stage of product development, from concept to rollout.

We use Gentoo, Apache, PHP and MySQL.   While that does not need to be your expertise, it is a plus.  We have a little Perl and Python thrown in as well.  You will need to code on a non-Windows system as we run our development environment on our local machines.  Currently, we all use Macs.

A big plus, however, is disc golf.  We play weekly as an um, team building excercise. Yeah, team …