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Comment on Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:34:50 +0000

Another solution is to use the chown command to change the ownership of the file. I’ve updated the guide..

Comment on Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:25:41 +0000

Hmm, I get the locked file issue with step 12 too since I upgraded to Mac OS 10.7.3. A work around that worked was to use vi to edit the file but its certainly not a beginner friendly text editor!

Comment on Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP by Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:48:54 +0000

Having issue with step 12…won’t let me alter that file because it is locked. Keep getting:

Unable to create directory /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Comment on Getting started with Python by John

John — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:07:36 +0000

Cheers Daniel. Your article and the links are helping me escape my novice-coder-hell.

Comment on Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:26:46 +0000

You need to do step twelve to give WordPress sufficient permissions to write to disk.

Comment on Configuring Perforce command line client P4 on Mac OS X by Jan

Jan — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:57:10 +0000

@Toby: Yes, I’m pretty sure “client (spec)” and “workspace” are synonymous.

Comment on Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP by TBee

TBee — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:11:15 +0000

Hello!

I just recently installed xampp and followed your instructions above. (Its been very helpful) Although I stopped at #12 (im a newbie so i couldn’t understand it in full ) Anyway, I tried uploading a theme I downloaded before but I can’t seem to upload it. I get this error message:

Unable to create directory /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

What does this mean? Have I done something wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Comment on Five iPhone apps to consider by Geneviève

Geneviève — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:15:55 +0000

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Comment on Installing Python, MatPlotLib & iPython on Snow Leopard by Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:26:30 +0000

Did you try following Dan’s instructions (comment before yours) for installing 2.7.2? I’ve not tried updating it yet..

Comment on Installing Python, MatPlotLib & iPython on Snow Leopard by kitkat

kitkat — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:18:46 +0000

Hi there! I know this is an an old post, but would desperately appreciate any help! I’ve come across some issues trying to get matplotlib running. I am quite new to python and scripting in general – I no longer have my license for MATLAB and have been told this would be a great open source alternative.

I am running Snow Leopard on my macbook.. I downloaded and installed python 2.7.2 (32-bit) and the appropriate numpy, ipython, matplotlib DMG packages. When I check if each has installed properly, I can find the source directory and retrieve the version numbers just fine.

However, when I try to use pylab.. like type in “ipython –pylab”, an error saying:

“[TerminalIPythonApp] Error in enabling GUI event loop integration” comes up.. and then is followed by a slew of import errors.

If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would greatly appreciate it!