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TCPMon: Monitor TCP Transactions on OSX

TCPMon: Monitor TCP Transactions on OSX

Essential tool for debugging web services. You can monitor HTTP request headers, returned status codes and content.

This is a double clickable version of the classic Apache TCPMon utility. I simply packaged the program’s files into an application using the Jar Bundler utility that comes with XCode developer tools.

Take a look at the tutorial on how to use it. TCPMon is most commonly used as… Continue reading

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Mounting remote filesystems on OSX Leopard using sshfs, MacFuse and Macfusion

Mounting remote filesystems on OSX Leopard using sshfs, MacFuse and Macfusion

Have you ever wanted to edit the web pages that reside on your commercial web host like they were on your own desktop? Wouldn’t it be nice to mount your entire remote website host directory on the desktop with a nice disk icon? Now you can drag and drop files into it without leaving the Finder. You can also edit files remotely without downloading, editing and uploading. This can be a huge improvement in workflow, and you don’t have to keep track of local and remote versions of files and the inevitable versioning headaches. This post shows you how to combine three free tools to setup this workflow. Continue reading

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PureMVC Console – Shines a light inside the MVC triad

PureMVC Console – Shines a light inside the MVC triad

I was checking the PureMVC website today and came across PureMVC Console developed by the good folks at Kap Lab. This is an absolutely invaluable tool to figure out in real-time what is going on inside the Flex PureMVC framework in a running application. Continue reading

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