Update: check out Nick's latest post for up to date info.

There's a bunch of articles that helpfully diagnose and solve the GRRRRowl + autotest + Leopard snafu.

In order to save me, and my cohorts, some time I've bundled it all up in a README + script + icons.

Being a new father, currently at my in-laws, I've reached for the nearest toy, and made bob the builder icons. I think they might even challenge hookercookerman's set (sadly, not on the web as afar as I can see - step up hookercookerman and post them).

Grab it

here (tarball, installation instructions inside)

P.S.

I made the screenshots with Photo booth's 'backdrop' feature, and a real toy. Finally, I can do composites (I just knew not learning photoshop would pay off).

So you're using ssh keys for all your servers and github and whatnot, and you've been using SSHKeychain in OS X 10.4, to manage that, and not type your password in all the time (SSHKeychain is a gui for ssh-agent).

Now that you're on Leopard, this all Just Works. No need for SSHKeychain (although SSHKeychain does other things too), and everything is nicely integrated with Mac OS keychain services. There's a nice write up over here at Ormset i Noreg. Buried in the comments, Luke Redpath notes that macports users might not be seeing this coolness, as OpenSSL is a dependency of some common ports (like git), and so the macport's ssh is not compiled with the leopard funkiness.

To fix this (assuming a standard macports install):

  sudo mv /opt/local/bin/ssh /opt/local/bin/ssh-macports
  sudo mv /opt/local/bin/scp /opt/local/bin/scp-macports

Now, when you next push to github, or deploy to a server, you'll get something like this:

Hooray!

So you wanna host your own git repos? Got Leopard? Got Git? Read On...

Assumptions: You have git installed.

Create a git server on leopard with gitosis

Download and install gitosis

  mkdir src
  git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
  cd gitosis
  sudo python setup.py install

Create a git user and group on the server

Create a unix user and group for git, using dscl: leopard's directory service cli

1. Find an unused uid and gid

  sudo dscl . list /Users uid
  sudo dscl . list groups gid

(check that, say, 401, is unused in both)

2. Create the git group

  sudo dscl . create groups/git
  sudo dscl . create groups/git gid 401

3. Create the git user

  sudo dscl . create users/git
  sudo dscl . create users/git uid 401
  sudo dscl . create users/git NFSHomeDirectory /Users/git
  sudo dscl . create users/git gid 401
  sudo dscl . create users/git UserShell /bin/bash
  sudo dscl . create users/git Password '*'

4. Create the git home directory (make this location match the end of line 3 above)

  sudo mkdir /Users/git
  sudo chown git /Users/git
  sudo chgrp git /Users/git

Create an ssh key, and copy it to the server

1. If you don't already have one, create an ssh key, on your local machine if it is not the server

  ssh-keygen -t rsa

2. Copy the public key to /tmp on the server

(if your local machine is the server)

  cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /tmp/my_key.pub

(if the server is different from your local machine)

  scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub your.server.com:/tmp/my_key.pub

Setup gitosis in git user's home directory

1. Initialise gitosis [on the git server]

  sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/my_key.pub

  Initialized empty Git repository in ./
  Reinitialized existing Git repository in ./

2. Make sure git's paths are set to your current ones (where you can see gitosis and git)

  sudo su git  (enter your password)
  echo "export PATH=$PATH" > ~/.bashrc
  exit

Update: drwestco advises that with git 1.6 you should append the following line to the git user's .bash_rc.

export PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH

Clone the gitosis repo to your local machine

  git clone git@your.server.com:gitosis-admin.git

If you see something like this, then you're all set

  remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
  remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (5/5), done.

What next?

Get familiar with gitosis. scie.nti.st has a great writeup for *nix systems, which I used as a reference point. The end of that blog has some general intro to gitosis.

Troubles? Make sure that you can ssh to the server as git (make sure that Leopard's ssh settings allow any user to login, or edit /etc/sshd_config). Otherwise post your troubles here in the comments.

I don’t know how I missed this (well, I do, I've been ridiculously busy), but about a month ago Microsoft issued a statement about planned CSS standards support in the upcoming IE8. The good news is that CSS 2.1 support will be almost complete—good, but not great, considering that this standard is rather old now, as it’s been a “candidate recommendation since 2004”.

The bad news is the level of support for CSS3 elements. Look through that list & try to keep afloat in the sea of red “no”s that signify their CSS3 support—or lack thereof. Of course, CSS3 is still very much a work in progress and is unlikely to be a candidate recommendation for another decade, judging from the pace of “Last Calls” for various components of the CSS3 spec. Nevertheless, the developers behind Safari & Firefox have been implementing a lot of the spec. There’s some fantastic stuff in it (multi-column support! colours with opacity!), that I for one would like to use immediately—and which we do, on our own site & some others we’re currently developing. But for the foreseeable future, if you’re using IE, you won’t see these things.

Given the clusterfuck of discontent that was IE7, and that Safari & Firefox have cleaned their clocks with current & emerging standards support, one might think that Microsoft would take the opportunity to really push IE8 to be a 1st-class browser. But no, they’ve just decided to tread so softly, so slowly, that the net result will be that IE8 will be that much farther in the distance. I mean, IE8b has just passed the Acid2 test. Hooray. Safari & Opera have worked on complete compliance with Acid3—and have succeeded.

This sucks. There are fantastic things taking place in CSS, in particular CSS3—which you can experience right now in Firefox & especially Safari. And I’d like all my site’s viewers to be able to see these effects in action.

As of last night, Ian became a father! At around 11pm, his son was born. Let me be the first in a public forum to congratulate him :)

Hopefully, he’ll soon post pictures—and a name!