Tag: OS X

My Move from MAMP Pro to Vagrant for WordPress Development

I recently upgraded to a new computer and in doing so shook up my entire development environment. My last was based on MAMP Pro for a number of reasons. Primarily: it just worked. I rarely had to bring up the GUI, everything was just ‘native’ and I went about my business building stuff for the […]

Posted: November 05, 2014

Slicy – Magic with PSDs

MacRabbit – Slicy – Magic with PSDs. This, for me, is one of those “I can’t believe it went until 2012 without this existing” stories. Slicy is the latest application from MacRabbit, the shop famous for Espresso and CSSEdit before that. When building out the front end, you may be all too familiar with the […]

Posted: April 04, 2012

Mac OS X Lion with CSS3

Mac OS X Lion with CSS3 | Blog of Alessio Atzeni | Web Design Tutorials and Front-end Development Blog by Alessio Atzeni. Novelty side projects are awesome. Unfortunately many are ridiculed for being a waste of time but in my opinion they’re gold when it comes to self-education. Imagine the OS X Lion experience recreated […]

Posted: January 23, 2012

Network Link Conditioner

I’m not sure how I missed it, but a new feature to OS X Lion is a Preference Pane called Network Link Conditioner. This is a thing of beauty for Web developers the world over; built in network throttling on an OS level. Throttling comes in as a need for various reasons. I’ve wanted to […]

Posted: November 30, 2011

Silverback: Making Usability Testing That Much Cooler

Silverback is usability testing software from the group at Clearleft. Here are my initial thoughts on the application itself.

Posted: July 28, 2008

I’ve Switched from Linux and Settled on OS X

Two of the more popular articles I’ve ever posted to this site are Linux and Web Development Part 2. In each piece, I documented my transition from using Windows my entire life to working with Linux (Ubuntu particularly). I first began working with Linux at home, I came to really enjoy the operating system as […]

Posted: November 26, 2007