Eclipse with Aptana plugin and SFTP support, a free website editor
A friend wanted a good, free web development IDE for Mac. Personally, I use Coda and love it, but it's not free.
I found this resource as a starting point.
I quickly found that although KompoZer and Nvu were good for her because they were WYSIWYG editors, they both don't support SFTP, which was required in this case (and most cases really), and were also lacking a little love. SeaMonkey and the rest below that on the list were either too simple or too complex. For me, this left three: Aptana, Komodo Edit, or Eclipse to try.
The Komodo Editor is actually pretty good, but I felt didn't have a very good remote connection tool. Aptana doesn't officially support SFTP without paying $99/yr (I tried using their free SFTP plugin, but it didn't work in Eclipse 3.4.2). So, since I use Eclipse for my Python projects, I wanted to see if I could get Eclipse with the Aptana plugin to work. I found this blog with the answer.
These are the shortened steps I followed:
- Download and install the Eclipse SDK ver. 3.4.2 (Ganymede)
- Install the Aptana Studio as an Eclipse plugin
- In the Aptana Perspective, 'My Aptana' tab, select 'Plugins' at the top, then choose to install 'Aptana PHP'.
- Using the Eclipse Software Updates, install a new remote site, Remote System Explorer, by adding this URL: http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/updates/, but you only need to select the 'Remote System Explorer Core' and 'RSE SSH Services' portions, found under the 'RSE_Runtime' when selecting features to install.
- Now, with the Remote System Explorer perspective selected (top right of the IDE), on the left side, in the Remote Systems tab, right-click and choose 'New Connection...', then input the settings to connect to your remote webserver.
- Once you've logged into your site and see the files, right-click on the one(s) to edit and choose 'Open With', then 'Aptana PHP Editor'
- You can now edit with all the syntactic highlighting, auto complete and other features of Aptana Studio.
Get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox
How to get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox:
In the url Location Bar, type 'about:config'.
Then in the filter box, type 'browser.display.focus_ring_width'.
Set its value from 1 to 0.
Tolstrup.us
Shameless plug for the writings of my grandfather at http://tolstrup.us. You'll find stories and pictures of him growing up in the midwest in the early part of the 20th century.
Mac OS X: Mounting FAT32 external hard drive via Terminal command line
I have a 150GB USB external hard drive (IDE/Parallel ATA disk in an enclosure) which was formatted as one partition, FAT32 in Windows XP. I wanted to extract the files off of it using my Macbook Pro running Apple Macintosh Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.6).
However, when I plug it in, I get a dialog box which says:
Disk Insertion
The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.
Initialize... Ignore Eject
I saw many references to there being a 127GB or 128GB partition limit for FAT32 for Mac to successfully mount.
Also, a potential problem was that when using Disk Utility it shows up on my system incorrectly as formatted as a Windows NT Filesystem (NTFS-3G).
diskutil list disk3
Output:
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *149.1 Gi disk3
1: Windows_NTFS 149.0 Gi disk3s1
It did however mount automatically and show up when I was running a virtual machine, for example Parallels and Windows XP (I used VirtualBox and Windows 7), but copying over files this way proved to be very slow.
So, after spending a lot of time on the internet looking for solutions, I just tried mounting it from the Terminal (command line) with success!
First, make a mount point:
sudo mkdir /Volumes/EXT_HD
Now mount (your device numbers may be different, e.g. /dev/disk2s1 -- you can determine what it is as it will the the highest number when you issue the command 'ls /dev/disk*'):
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/EXT_HD/
It eventually showed up in Devices in Finder, but just to let you know, when I tried ejecting (unmounting) it when I was done, even though I had closed all programs I got the error:
The disk "USB_DRIVE" is in use and could not be ejected. Try quitting applications and try again.
Unmounting via he command line also failed:
sudo umount /Volumes/EXT_HD/
umount: unmount(/Volumes/EXT_HD): Resource busy
So I had to reboot.
I hope someone finds this information useful because I sure didn't find any help...
EDIT (01 Oct, 2009): Apparently there is a way to enable native NTFS read/write support in 10.6 Snow Leopard (and this may work for Leopard). However, I would recommend not allowing write ability (and thus read only) when using this method as it may corrupt your NTFS files. To set to read only, follow the directions in the link but instead of using 'rw', use 'ro', e.g. UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs ro