Startup School Hong Kong

by Mike May 7th, 2009

If you are working toward getting your startup off the ground then the Startup School coming up on July 18th at Cyberport in Hong Kong looks like its going to be a must-attend event.

The Hong Kong Startup Association (HKSUA) is putting this event together and it will be free to attend.  J. Aaron Farr has set up a Startup School Hong Kong site at Ning where you can RSVP if you plan to attend.

Great to see an event like this in Hong Kong.

MAMP and Virtual hosts for Mac OS X development

by Mike Dec 26th, 2008

I’ve just spent a few hours setting up a new local development environment for development and thought I would write down the steps both for my own reference and hopefully for the benefit of others using MAMP.

Development Environment

We are using a Mac OS X environment for development.  Basically all our projects are under version control (SVN) and we use MAMP to get the basic web development stack up and running with as little drama as possible.  We use the command-line or svnX for SVN and Textmate for code.  It’s relatively problem-free to setup and most importantly gets out of our way so we can get on with real work rather than faffing about with configurations and Yak shaving.

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