Simon Willison’s Weblog

How do you install lxml on OS X Leopard without using MacPorts or Fink? I’ve asked on Stack Overflow... hope I get a good answer.

# 14th August 2009, 1:04 pm / leopard, lxml, osx, python, stackoverflow

How to install lxml python module on mac os 10.5 (leopard). Instructions that work! Finally, I can find out what all the fuss is about.

# 15th December 2008, 12:05 am / leopard, libxml2, lxml, osx, python, xml

A Leopard attacking and killing a Crocodile. Amazing sequence of photos by Hal Brindley.

# 20th July 2008, 6:48 pm / crocodile, halbrindley, leopard, photography, wildlife

Hacky holidays on OS X. Jeremy Keith documents how to get PHP 5 and Apache 2 virtual hosts running on Leopard.

# 29th December 2007, 11:49 am / apache, apache2, jeremy-keith, leopard, osx, php, php5, virtualhosts

Fluid. Another site-specific browser toolkit for OS X (Leopard only), from Todd Ditchendorf. Again, it’s not clear if this does the Right Thing and creates separate cookie jars for every application.

# 28th December 2007, 11:42 pm / cookies, fluid, leopard, osx, sitespecificbrowsers, toddditchendorf

Python on Leopard. readline is finally bundled, so the interactive interpreter works correctly without hunting around for frustratingly elusive add-ons. easy_install is bundled as well.

# 31st October 2007, 5:53 pm / christopher-lenz, leopard, osx, python, readline, setuptools

A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features (via) Thomas Ptacek’s overview of the new security features in Leopard. Guest Accounts are worthless from a security P.O.V., but I still plan to use one for our PowerBook that’s now just a media player.

# 31st October 2007, 5:30 pm / leopard, osx, security, thomas-ptacek

How Time Machine works. From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images.

# 29th October 2007, 9:56 am / apple, arstechnica, john-siracusa, leopard, osx, parallels, timemachine, virtualisation

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review. John Siracusa’s 17 page review of Leopard, covering everything from UI tweaks to DTrace sample code. Smart use of embedded video and audio too—I suggest setting aside at least an hour to work through it all.

# 29th October 2007, 8:55 am / apple, arstechnica, dtrace, john-siracusa, leopard, osx

“Open in TextMate” from Leopard Finder (via) Bookmarked for when our copy of Leopard arrives.

# 28th October 2007, 6:24 pm / finder, leopard, osx, textmate

Mac OS X Leopard: UNIX. Leopard ships with DTrace, and it’s been hooked in to Java, Ruby, Python and Perl.

# 11th June 2007, 11:05 pm / dtrace, java, leopard, osx, perl, python, ruby

Mac OS X Leopard: Multicore. “... NSOperation, a breakthrough new API that optimizes applications for the world of multicore processing.”

# 11th June 2007, 11:02 pm / concurrency, leopard, multicore, nsoperation, osx

DjangoKit. Early preview release of a tool that lets you package a Django application up as a fully contained OS X application. When Leopard ships with PyObjC this kind of thing will be even easier.

# 29th March 2007, 12:50 am / django, djangokit, leopard, osx, pyobjc, python