Phil Sherry : Spring 2008

I lost roughly three hours today. I was copying some files from my old PowerMac (AKA: the Smurf) to my MacBook, when the connection suddenly dropped. Turns out the Smurf had a kernel panic. D’oh! “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll turn it off and on again, and then carry on where I left off.” But no.

Kernel panic on reboot. Every time. Even when trying to boot from a DiskWarrior DVD. Hmm.

Back in 2004, I wrote Foundation Mac OS X Web Development for friends of ED. The book covered all aspects of web development on the Mac OS X platform and sold well around the world. At the time of writing, Mac OS X was at version 10.3 (Panther). The majority of the book still holds up today, but for one wildly out of date section: installing and configuring the MAMP environment.

I figured it was time to address this on my blog. As well as updating these instructions, I’ll be covering the much requested setting up of virtual hosts.