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Eclipse Android FAQ: How to set up the Eclipse Android development environment, including the Eclipse ADT and Android SDK.

After a little digging around I figured out how to install an Eclipse Android development environment, and I thought I'd share my installation notes here. The notes are a little shorter than my usual detailed explanations, but I think they're long enough.

To get the Android development environment working with Eclipse, you need to install two components onto your development system:

Mac Git installation FAQ: How do I install Git on Mac OS X?

There are at least two different ways to install Git on Mac OS X systems, and I've used both of these methods. The first approach is to use a Mac GUI installer, and the second is to use the command-line MacPorts project to install Git on Mac OS X.

As a few thousand people saw earlier this morning, Day 3 of the conversion to Drupal was filled with a little comedy. First, I ran into a MySQL "can't create/write to file" error message caused by not having the open-files-limit cranked up high enough.

PHP FAQ: Is there a package manager for PHP?

Answer: Yes, PEAR (the PHP Extension and Application Repository) is what you need. As the website describes it, "PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components."

Here's an example of how I used PEAR to install the HTTP_Request library, showing both what I typed, and the output from PEAR as it performed the installation.

Recently I started using Fink on Mac OS X to install Unix open source software. Fink is easy to use, and simplifies the process of installing open source software applications on Mac OS X.

To learn about how to use Fink, just open a Terminal window and type this command:

fink --help

That brings up the following help text (the fink man page):