Dave Bouwman - Getting my Mac(Book Pro) on...

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:58:21 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)	Comments [3] \|
Categories: Mac

apple So we needed to do some testing of sites on Safari on a Mac, and I asked around the company, and low it turns out that there was an orphan MacBook Pro floating about. After a quick trip via FedEx, this lithe beast is now sitting on my desk. Turns out that the power supply has a short in it, so it will be a few days before I fire it up and take furtive steps into the the heart of darkness.

Actually I'm pretty excited to see what all the fuss is about. With a dead battery and no juice, my take thus far is purely physical, and as everyone knows, Apple groks design. Why can't my Toshiba be as solid, and well designed at this Mac? Who knows, but it sure feels nice. Once I get it fired up, we'll see how OS10 treats me. I'm got some rusty old-skool unix tricks up my sleeves, but it's going to be a little bumpy at first. Clearly there is something good going in with them though, as MacBooks were the rule for anyone with any sort of Neogeo cred at Where 2.0 . We'll see if 10 years of Windows development has ruined me, or if I can get my Mac on. Stay tuned!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:27:09 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Dave,

Don't forget to swing by http://www.kyngchaos.com/ to get the OS X binaries and frameworks for GDAL, MapServer, PostGIS, etc.

David.

David Fawcett

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:43:50 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks for the info - I'm looking for any and all pointers on getting things up and running. I'm thinking of heading the PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoDjango route just to really bend my mind all at once ;-)

Cheers,

Dave

Dave

Friday, May 30, 2008 12:36:22 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Install the development tools (typically also on one of the install discs) to gain access to Apple's GNU compiler toolchain. With that you can build most open source geospatial packages (including GEOS and PostGIS). Use MacPorts for other libraries and dependencies because I've found fink to be a bit temperamental (especially on Leopard).

Drop me an email if you have any GeoDjango installation questions.

Justin Bronn

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