In October 2013 I upgraded both my work Mac running Lion and my home Mac running Snow Leopard to Mavericks. Here's a report of the problems I ran into.

• Creating a bootable USB no longer works as easily as it did for Mountain Lion: http://www.oddzuki.com/bootable-os-x-mavericks-usb-flash-drive-9999-error-fix/;

• On my home Mac running Snow Leopard I wanted to do a clean install. It turns out this isn't an option in the install process, instead you have to wipe your drive/partition first and then start the in­stal­la­tion process;

• Admin password problem (didn’t notice lock), only occurred once;

• My keyboard lay-out at the login screen somehow got stuck on …continue.

So, I'm finally getting to know Plone. We will be using it for the company website and I should be getting a short training in working and developing with Plone so I can take on the main­te­nance of the website after delivery.

I had some extra time to delve into Plone before the training and I have to say: Plone definitely has a steep learning curve. It toke me forever just to get it up and running (not being familiar with zc.buildout doesn't help). Just now I had to help my colleague getting everything up and running and he ran into …continue.

A while ago I wrote two posts, one on using Twig and another on using htaccess with Mac's Apache. I was reasonably happy with the described setups until I discovered that when I used something like <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" media="all"> in my HTML it wouldn't work because my site was running at the default http://localhost/~heleen/website/index.html and so it would map the 'root' slash to http://localhost/ rather than http://localhost/~heleen/website/. I found a solution to this using vhosts, which works really well. But then I had to add another website, and another, and realised that surely there should be an easier way …continue.

Edit (sudo) /etc/apache2/users/[your-username].conf:

1. Add Doc­u­men­t­Root "/Users/[your-username]/Sites/" at the top of the file;
2. Add Fol­lowSym­Links to the Options;
3. Change Al­lowOver­ride None to Al­lowOver­ride All;
4. Change Deny from All to Allow from All.

Original:

<Directory "/Users/[your-username]/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from All
</Directory>

New:

DocumentRoot "/Users/[your-username]/Sites/"
<Directory "/Users/[your-username]/Sites/">
   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from All
</Directory>

Restart Apache: sudo apachectl graceful

Just now I tried to use django-admin.py makemes­sages to create a language file and got the following error: /bin/sh: xgettext: command not found. After a search on my system it turns out I don't have gettext installed.

I did some searching and found mac-ports solutions, but I'm not a big fan of them. I tried compiling myself and got the following errors:

stpncpy.c:34: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before numeric constant
stpncpy.c:34: error:    expected ‘)’ before ‘!=’ token

stpncpy.c:34: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘?’ token

make[3]: *** [stpncpy.lo] Error 1

make[2]: *** [install] Error 2

make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I …continue.

For the project I am currently working on at my job I needed to make some HTML page mock-ups. The HTML and CSS were already available within the current version of the website, I just needed to re­struc­ture the content a bit and make a few mock-ups of it to see what sort of issues we'd run into.

Initially I just copied the HTML and replaced the old content with the new content. Then I made another copy and replaced it with different content. I then realised what I needed was a tempting system. If I was going to make 10 …continue.