Finally Learning Git!

I admit it.  I have never taken the time to learn Git!

Time to rectify this shortcoming!

Looking at the following for guidance:

• http://drupalcity.de/session/staging-and-integration-git-and-drush
• http://barcelona2012.drupaldays.org/sessions/staging-git-and-drush
• https://drupal.org/node/803746

For starters, though, I am going through this tutorial to set up a remote development environment:

• http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server
• https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

Some tips on running WordPress locally on Mavericks

http://soderlind.no/running-wordpress-locally-on-mac-os-x-lion/

The key for me was this tidbit:

Added the following to /Users//Sites/wordpress/wp-config.php:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

Installing Compass on Mac OSX

http://compass-style.org/install/

OSX Server Permissions

I found this quite enlightening:

http://francoisdeschenes.com/2013/02/26/enable-write-permissions-for-apache-built-into-mac-os-x

However, it caused me some grief, so I found this advice, which has done me good:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8035939/write-privileges-localhost-mac-osx

Installing Drush on OSX Mavericks, using Homebrew

...couldn't be easier!

http://www.echoditto.com/blog/three-ways-get-drush-os-x

http://brew.sh/

Installing a full AMP stack on OSX Mavericks

I found this brief tutorial to be very clear, and very helpful:

http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-9-mavericks/

Afterwards, I found these two little guides quite handy:

http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/install-mcrypt-php-mac-osx-10-9-mavericks-development-server/

http://forum.piwik.org/read.php?2,104553