https://www.stress-free.co.nz/tech/intel en https://www.stress-free.co.nz/intel_osx_is_all_go <div class="field-body"> <div class="image"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/news/imac.jpg" alt="" /></div> <p>Over the weekend I finished the transition from my PowerBook to the Intel based iMac as my primary development platform. Rather than use the PowerPC only Flock or stick with Safari I have started using an <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/josh/archives/2006/01/unofficial_intel_mac_firefox_b.html">unofficical Intel compiled version of Firefox</a>. Performance is excellent and there are no issues with reliability, Java or Flash. <br /></p> <p>Installing Rails and ImageMagick turned out to be very straightforward thanks to DarwinPorts, the <a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallOnOSXTigerUsingDarwinPorts">Rails on OSX wiki</a> and the <a href="http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html">ImageMagick on OSX howto</a>. Currently there is no Intel compiled DarwinPorts binary but fortunately it compiled from source without issue (once the Apple Developer Tools were installed). <br />In the process I found a nice Eclipse plugin for Ruby on Rails named <a href="http://www.radrails.org">RadRails</a>. <br /></p> <p>The only non-Intel development specific applications I am waiting for are <a href="http://www.panic.com/transmit/">Transmit</a> (FTP/SFTP) and <a href="http://www.navicat.com/product.html">NaviCat</a> (MySQL manager). Apparently a Universal Transmit should ship soon whilst NaviCat maybe a long way away. Fortunately both applications run okay through Rosetta.</p> <p> </p> </div> <ul class="field-taxonomy-vocabulary-1"> <li> <a href="/tech/apple">apple</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/osx">osx</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/ruby">ruby</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/intel">intel</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/imac">imac</a> </li> </ul> Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:26:55 +0000 David 226 at https://www.stress-free.co.nz