Post-Leopard Checklist

I'm resettling into my laptop post-Leopard upgrade as a background task today and thought it might be useful (mostly to future-me) to note all the bits I'm twiddling:

• Uninstalled and reinstalled SpanningSync to get iCal and GoogleCal talking again
• Installed MacPorts 1.5 for 10.5; `sudo port selfupdate` yielded no changes.
• Started installing Ruby gems: rcov uuidtools ... I'm sure there are more coming.
  
• Installed QuickSilver for the first time. I've been watching folks like Evan speed along using it, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'll probably take time to watch the 10 minute tutorial on YouTube. Happily just discovered that this eliminates the need for  SizzlingKeys to control iTunes. Excellent. Installed a metric buttload of plugins for it. If I can achieve a graceful way of adding tasks and appointments, I'll be a happy camper.
• Kept Twitteriffic 2.1 rather than upgrading to 3.0. I keep hearing grief about 3.0 and ads, which is uninteresting to experience firsthand.
• Installed RMagick according to the usual instructions; however, rather than port install all the supporting libs, then compile the sources I just did `sudo port install imagemagick` which seems to have worked, so the sum of the instructions amounts to:
1. Install X11, Xcode, and X11 SDK (there are people who don't? ;)
2. install MacPorts
3. `sudo port selfupdate && sudo port install imagemagick`
4. `sudo gem install rmagick`

That's about it for now.

Update: Round 2 ... fight!

• Resubscribe to US Holidays and Movie release calendars. (I don't usually track the DVD releases, but you can if you like)
• Partitioned my drive with BootCamp Assistant and upgraded to latests Parallels in preparation for tonight's Vista installfest. Found it interesting/amusing that Bootcamp suggested that I could install Vista Home although this is against the MS Vista EULA.
• Try installing mysql5 from MacPorts and get it to start. Fail miserably. Oh well.
• Install the MySQL 5/Intel DMG from MySQL.com
• Install /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld as root, courtesy of Joannou Ng
• sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld
• Install the mysql gem. This was tricky (or I don't know how it's supposed to be done); the usual method failed while building the Makefile. In the end I had to read code to discover that I should install like so: sudo gem install -- --with-mysql-config ... and even so, it wanted to build a Universal bundle and kept failing due to '-arch ppc' compiler and linker flags. Ripped those out of the Makefile and did a make install ... and voila.
• More gems: parsetree capistrano feedtools fastercsv ferret flexmock mongrel piston rails_analyzer_tool rspec rubygrowl rubyprof sake tzinfo

Still need to work out the Address Book missing thing.

Comments

[Brian]

I would just like to comment that I was corrected on Slashdot once for the same egregious error you've committed. It's a Metric ARSEload. If it is metric, it must be an arseload. If you use standard units, then the buttload would be fine.

[Jim Meyer]

I can't believe I made such a humiliating mistake; I'll definitely avoid it in the future. I suppose that makes "metric crapload" incorrect as well, though I've never heard of a "metric shiteload" ...