Archive for November, 2009

Using Quicksilver to edit hosts file

This is mostly just a follow up for my previous post on using a shell script to add and remove test domains in the hosts file. I have created two small applescripts for use in Quicksilver to execute that script. If you need to use these you place them in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions and set your [...]

November 4, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Development  3 Comments

Bash script for editing the hosts file

I just read a post about local development in apache by Jesper Rasmussen and thought one thing was missing. I usually test my sites and applications locally with the real domain – to ensure that functionality based on the url works as expected. However this means editing the hosts file several times a day. Now [...]

November 4, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Web development  One Comment