I understand, English is de-facto language of the web, and clients rarely need multilingual web apps, but not including gettext in the stock php installed on mac is just silly.

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I just wasted fair amount of time configuring memcached on my mac development machine. It should have been easy, but it was not. So I’m going to document my steps which led me to a working configuration. Some of these steps might be unnecessary.

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I rarely have to use mac OSX Vim for file editing, I usually ssh into remote machines which run ubuntu server or CentOS and there I’ve vim configured for syntax highlighting and other goodies.

But few times that I use Vim on mac, it makes my head hurt, no syntax highlighting by default? really?

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I was itching to do upgrade on my development machine since Mavericks came out, but I had a big project in the pipeline and I couldn’t afford downtime – shiny new OS .0, not the latest hardware, allot of work and stringent deadlines are risky combination for early adoption.

Now 9.1 Version is out, and my work schedule is less demanding, so I’ve decided to do the deed. So this blog post describes my experience and issues I’ve encountered in the process.

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