Zend Studio 6.1: SVN update on Snow Leopard

I ran into an issue with a svn project today so I decided to create a new repository. The thing I didn't realize is that SVN has been upgraded to version 1.6.2 in Snow Leopard. This caused a major conflict with Zend Studio 6.1. When I tried to browse the repository with a project import it couldn't read the SVN tree.

After a lot of searching I figured out how to update the SVN plug-in.

Goto Help => Software Updates => Find and Install.
Select Search for updates of the currently installed features and click Finish.

When the search finishes check "Subversive update site 2.0.x".



Click the "Search" button. There should be an option listed called "Subversive update site 2.0.x". If you check the box you will get an error on a JavaHL 1.4.5 Win32 Binaries (Optional). Click the arrow to the left of to expose more options. Click the arrow to the left of "Subversive SVN Connectors" and uncheck all the JavaHL Win32 Binaries. This should allow you to install the new update.



When the update has finished Zend will prompt you to allow a restart. Once it closes you will have to restart it. You'll need to select the new SVN plugin. Goto Zend Studio for Eclipse => Preferences. Goto Team => SVN. Click the SVN Connector tab and select "SVN Kit (SVN/1.6.2 SVNKit/1.3.0)" from the SVN Connector down down.



You should be able to import a project from a new version of SVN without a problem.

Update 10/05/2009
I may have left out a key piece of resolving the SVN issue. I was trying many things at the time, and this might be one of the parts that made it work.

There is a new version of the SVNKit plug-in for eclipse. I don't have the exact steps at this moment to install them in Zend Studio, but the site has the steps for Eclipse and they're pretty close. You can view them here.

Snow Leopard (10.6): Show the month and day in the menu bar

Snow Leopard(10.6) has a new option for Date & Time in System Preferences. You can now have the day, month and day of the month show in the menu bar. You could do this before, but it required a bit of hacking in the International section.

Goto System Preferences and select Date & Time. Click the Clock tab and check "Show the day of the week".

Your menu bar should look something like this now.

MAMP (Pro): Making changes to php.ini

I'm using MAMP Pro and trying to get an old project built in PHP4 up and running. The project depends on register_globals to be turned on. I tried to update the php.ini file located in MAMP/conf/php4/php.ini, but nothing would change when I looked at the phpinfo() output.

After banging my head against the wall for awhile I turned to the forums at mamp.info. There is an importance difference between MAMP and MAMP PRO. If you want to update any of the ini file settings while using MAMP PRO goto File => Edit Template and select the ini you want to update.

The full forum post can be found here.

Apple / OSX : Updating the hosts file

I'm in the process of migrating from a PC at work to a new iMac. There are a few servers with names that don't resolve properly. These were stored in the hosts file on windows.
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

On OSX it's stored in
/etc/hosts

The file is read only so you'll want to open it with sudo before bringing it into vim, or however you plan to do it with a GUI editor.