{"id":219,"date":"2008-12-26T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-12-26T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T01:21:00","slug":"convert-from-pc-to-macbook-for-a-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Convert from PC to MacBook for a developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the new nicely looking MacBook and an old PC, plus some decent deals on Amazon, it&#8217;s a good time to switch. After a couple days, this will be a productivity improvement. Many packages are available and ready to use, like svn, httpd. Here is maybe a list of things I did for a conversion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install the LAMP stack: Apache\/httpd (already ready, just need to enable on System Preferences, edit the httpd.conf for fine-tuning and remove modules), MySQL (download the package from MySQL.com and setup a plist file for launchd, a better approach to start\/stop services), PHP (only need to uncomment a line in httpd.conf)\n<\/li>\n<li>Setup SVN (already as  a bundle in TextMate, moving repositories from PC with svnadmin dump, quite simple)\n<\/li>\n<li>Install TextMate (on PC, I use EditPlus, so this is similar, or even better, IDE is not my thing, too bloated, no matter how nice)<\/li>\n<li>Setup Spaces (esp. the application assignment): this makes up for the smaller screensize (13.3&#8243;)<\/li>\n<li>KeePassX: a port from Keepass, an open source project, looking for its iPhone coming up<\/li>\n<li>Terminal: customize the preferences to your favorite colors (for many devs, probably a dark background). This is one of the many things that draw me to a Mac, a familiar command-line together w\/ a beautiful\/elegant GUI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new nicely looking MacBook and an old PC, plus some decent deals on Amazon, it&#8217;s a good time to switch. After a couple days, this will be a productivity improvement. Many packages are available and ready to use, like svn, httpd. Here is maybe a list of things I did for a conversion: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}