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Category Archives: Macintosh

Installing different Python environments on Mac OS Leopard

This link at jessenoller.com is an excellent reference on setting up multiple Python installs on Mac OS Leopard and using virtualenv to create bespoke working environments for various Python packages:
jessenoller.com – So you want to use python on the mac?

Cappuccino and CherryPy

Cappuccino is a JavaScript toolkit for building application like experiences on the web. It’s developed (and used) by the folks who produced 280 Slides, a rather amazing presentation package for the web.
I’ve been doing a fair bit of of Mac development and have come to appreciate the syntax of Objective-C. One of the [...]

Using Mercurial for Mac OS X Development

As a budding Mac developer, one of the things that I’ve had to sort out is which source code version control system I want to use. I first started using version control with RCS some 25 years ago. I’ve introduced version control or better version control at several of the jobs I’ve had. [...]

Parallels and VMWare Fusion

One of the reasons that I bought a MacBook was the prospect of running any OS that was likely to come up in my work could be run on the laptop. At the time, I assumed that I’d use Parallels for this purpose and in fact bought a copy of Parallels the same night [...]

More on PyObjC

Related to my last post. This web page at developer.apple.com details the steps to take to work with PyObjC and XCode. It’s also a bit of an endorsement of Python development for the Mac.

Mac Development with Python

Now that I have a MacBook, naturally enough my attention turns to developing for it. My language of choice these days is Python for a variety of reasons I won’t go into now. I’m interested to see that there’s fairly broad support for developing Cocoa based applications with python using PyObjC as a [...]