How to Enable Local SMTP Server (Postfix) on OS-X Leopard

in5minutes, leopard, mac, os-x, osx, postfix, smtp

Irakli:

The fastest way to send e-mails from your e-mail client (e.g. Mail) on OS-X is to use local SMTP server. You also need local SMTP if you are using your Mac as a development platform (say, for Drupal) and are testing some e-mail related functionality. Since OS-X Leopard is a powerful Unix system, installing a local SMTP server is not a problem. As a matter of fact, Leopard comes with pre-installed SMTP server (Postfix), we just need to enable it. The following quick tutorial, from the In Under 5 Minutes series, shows how to do it.

Posted 05/10/2009 - 23:44 // 9 comments

Drupal 6 jQuery in Under 5 Minutes

behaviors, drupal, in5minutes, javascript, jquery, localization, settings, tutorial

Irakli:

Drupal6 introduced new ways of working with jQuery, the primary Javascript library for Drupal. Unfortunately, the documentation for it is almost completely missing, which makes writing proper Javascript/jQuery in Drupal challenging for newcomers. This is a very quick intro for people new to Drupal or trying to migrate Javascript code from Drupal5 to Drupal6.

Posted 05/03/2009 - 17:00 // 2 comments