Ninetynine

MamppControl

Hey,

Yesterday I had some spare time, so I decided to take a look at the Cocoa collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X.
I’ve created this first application with XCode in Objective-C and named it MamppControl.

It allows you to start, stop, reload Mampp from the tray, with a handy tray icon & menu.
Mampp is the other name for Xampp on Mac.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

More information about Xampp here.

I know that there is a launcher includes in the xampp package, but it has no tray icon and stay’s visible in the dock.

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For an AIR application that I’m creating (more about that later), I needed some way to show the users some event happened while the application was running in the background. So what’s better on Mac OS than showing growl notifications ?



Adobe has worked together with the Growl team to add support for AIR and flash applications.
Mike Chambers has put together an open source project named as3growl which provides an API to work with the new Growl build.

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