I use OS X as a development environment for my home projects – and yes, I have made better decisions in my life so lets not get too caught up on that one – so there are many fun times when it comes to programming, to stop the frustration I use the command line to do fancy easy stuff everyday things you can do without programs to ruin it.

The benefits are two-fold:

1. It works. SometimesApple programs feel the need to run the show, and that is frustrating on so many levels.
2. It makes me feel cool, like I know what I am doing. I am still not overly comfortable with command line, but we’re becoming good friends.

To setup the ignore files for a git repository just jump into the command line in the new symfony project. I use nano because it comes on OS X, but you can use VI, if you are a command-line warrior.

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sudo nano .gitignore

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# GIT IGNORE
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# Ignore all .DS_Store files that appear
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*.DS_Store
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# Ignore log files that appear
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*.log
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# Ignore all directories and files in cache
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cache/**/*
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nbproject/**/*
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nbproject/private/private.properties
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nbproject/project.properties
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nbproject/project.xml
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nbproject/private/private.xml

As you can see by the last bit, I use NetBeans as an IDE. So far I am enjoying it.

I had a problem. I have been using BitWise status indicators for sometime now, in fact after reading Mark Story’s article they have been a staple of development ever since. In my latest work there was a need to turn on or off an item from a menu. I came across this Nice Trick to toggle Model, which seemed to be perfect but because it is on or off it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. Read the rest of this entry »

It has evaded me for many moons. Long time playing, waiting and researching – biding my time to get the subdomains happening locally. I have been looking at working on a Symfony tutorial as it is something I must learn – unsure if willingly yet. And I decided I must get this down before moving on. Read the rest of this entry »