CocoaMySQL - MySQL GUI for Mac OS X

I had to restore a MySQL database dump to a server at new host with no shell access. The host recommended SQLyog, but I'm working on this project on my Mac, and SQLyog is Windows only.

CocoaMySQL was a quick and easy install and did exactly what I needed.

Of course, on my Mac itself, it was the standard MySQL command:

$ mysql -h localhost -u root myshinynewdb < mydatabasedump.sql

Viewing .CHM files on Mac OS X - Chmox

I tried several Mac options and had no luck (xchm froze, libchmxx has a utility called chmdissect - it worked, but no images)...finally, I struck gold with Chmox.

1) Install CHMLIB - http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/

% ./configure
% make
% sudo make install

2) Install Chmox - http://chmox.sourceforge.net/

The binary is a standard dmg file...click on the dmg file and move the application over to your application directory.

Upgrading to PHP5 on Mac OS X 10.4

I've been running PHP5 for ages on my Linux box, but my new (for me) MacBook Pro had PHP4...um, time for an upgrade. Well, easy enough...

I downloaded the PHP5 tarball from http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ and did the install.

Before the install, I commented out all the php4 lines in my apache config file(/etc/httpd/httpd.conf).

The entropy package installed under /usr/local/php5 and it added a new config file (/private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf), which is included by the main apache httpd.conf file...restart apache, that's it!