Here’s a (maybe incomplete) list of my Dev System Setup. Mainly for me to remember, but maybe a help for you too:

Main Development Setup
Snowleopard
xCode (or latest iPhone SDK)
Mac Ports, now I prefer Homebrew
Ruby: rvm + rubygems + rails etc.
Database: Mysql 5.1 + Sequel Pro
OpenVPN: Tunnelblick, or Cisco VPN client + Shimo VPN Menubar Addon
Terminal Console Extension: SIMBL + Visor
TextMate + Missing Drawer + Get Bundles + Rails + …
jEdit + FTP + …
Git + GitX
FTP & Co: Cyberduck
Hudson status: CCMenu
Share Files: Dropbox
Safari + Delicious Safari + ClickToFlash
Firefox + Firebug
Google Chrome

Extended Development
Arduino
Processing
Fritzing
Eclipse

Nice to have:
System Notification: Growl + Growl Mail
Read RSS: NetNewsWire
Skype and Tweetie
Control iTunes: SizzlingKeys
Last.fm: iScrobbler
All Codecs: Perian
Dasboard widgets: IP + App Update
Word replacement: iWork
Keep your Notes: Journler
Extend Finder: TotalFinder

Install hints
mac ports
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install git-core +svn +bash_completion
sudo port install ImageMagick +no_x11
sudo port install wget

ruby gems

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/991708/rails-mysql-and-snow-leopard

sudo gem self update
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem install passenger
sudo gem install piston

Safari open always in tabs:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200812/make_safari_open_targeted_links_in_new_tabs_instead_of_new_windows/

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Safari enable Development mode:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Safari Plugins:

http://alexstaubo.github.com/keywurl/

TextMate install bundle
cd ~/Desktop && svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/

Well, that’s it! Stay tuned for updated…

Some while ago I bought this nice Midi Controller BCD3000 by Behringer. It’s an easy to use device which brings way more fun mixing your MP3. For easy party playing mode I very like Djay, which is a simple but very powerfull mixing software. It now support Midi devices as well!
Unfortunately I couldn’t find any predefined Midi Mappings for Djay and BCD3000. So I created my own. Please download the file here. For now, all basic features are mapped, I may add sophisticated ones soon. It’s hosted on github, so please fork it and add you changes.

Happy DJing!

Yay, I finally released my Launchpad Processing Library. Please see it’s project page and source at github.

Videos & more are coming soon. (Yes, this includes an updated mtXcontrol Version with Launchpad support!!)

(*  small apple script to save rating into grouping field and
   vice versa. Perfect to persitent store your rating witin the file
*)

tell application "iTunes"
	repeat with stars from 1 to 5
		set rating_value to stars * 20
		set group_name to "" & stars & " Stars"

		set sel to (every track whose rating is rating_value and grouping is "")
		repeat with aTrack in sel
			tell aTrack
				set grouping to group_name
			end tell
		end repeat

		set sel to (every track whose rating is 0 and grouping is group_name)
		repeat with aTrack in sel
			tell aTrack
				set rating to rating_value
			end tell
		end repeat
	end repeat
end tell

Btw. for each Star rating I do have a smart playlist which allows me to find those quickly.

Yay, my new toy has arrived: It’s a Nabaztag. Short story: I first met the rabbit in 2007 at re:publica conference @ Berlin, and always want to have one since then. Nabaztag is a rabbit connected to the Internet with moving ears, 4x color LEDs, a RFID reader, a button and Sound In & Output. It’s hard to understand why one wants to have such rabbit, but the idea to connect things with the internet sounds very interesting to me. But just for playing around, it was to expensive … till now!

Sadly (well, luckily for me) Violet, the producer of Nabaztag, is on it’s way to bankruptcy. As of this MyRobotcenter started selling them half price – nice! I couldn’t anymore resists buying and got the rabbit+mirror+zstamps for a good price – that’s all right!

According to violet, each thing needs a name, so mine is called Nabaccia, listens to emails via nabaccia – things.violet.net and, of course, twitters here as well. So, now it’s time to hack the rabbit. I saw a couple of interesting project out there, let’s get it on! More on this soon!

I know it’s totally wired and hard to understand why, just don’t ask

Image by Liron – thx!

UPDATE my_table SET a=@tmp:=a, a=b, b=@tmp;

Done! Isn’t that easy?

Files: (excluded all images,pdf & flash)

!(/\.(?!htaccess)[^/]*|\.(png|jpg|pdf|swf)|\.(tmproj|o|pyc)|/Icon\r|/svn-commit(\.[2-9])?\.tmp)$

Folders: (exclude tmp tools vendor uploads lang locale po old_migrations script images upload custom_maps log)

!.*/(\.[^/]*|CVS|doc|tmp|tools|vendor|uploads|lang|locale|po|old_migrations|script|images
|upload|custom_maps|log|_darcs|_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)?|bundle))$

To change the settings go to

preferences -> advanced -> folder references

Yeah, now my search is quite fast again!

Now, renumbering a table is as easy as never before:

Set @a = 0;
UPDATE my_table SET id=@a:=@a+1

Check out the docu and examples:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-variables.html

tell application "Address Book"
set thePeople to every person whose ICQ handles is not {} and Jabber handles is {}
repeat with eachPerson in thePeople
set icqnr to value of ICQ handles of eachPerson
set jabberid to (item 1 of icqnr) & "@jit.jabber.fsinf.de"
make new Jabber handle at end of Jabber handles of eachPerson with properties {label:"Home", value:jabberid}
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell

It worked out fine. Now I see you all in my buddylist