I’ve been working with a couple of command line tasks over the last couple of days using PDO MySQL connections and ran across a problem where PHP on the command line could not connect to MySQL’s default socket. It’s a busy discussion on Google and there seem to be a lot of garbled listings when you google this so here’s my 2 quid.
Working in OSX can be a grinding experience for developers with assistance from the OS when you’re running a development machine. One of the niggles for me was having to enter user names and passwords when you start and stop services running on lower port numbers.
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Hidden files in OSX have been an issue for developers using version control for an age now, and there have always been solutions to the problem in the form of third party applications or the command line.
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