SQL Buddy is Web based MySQL administration. Super slick and fast you will quickly forgot phpMyAdmin. No configuration needed, just unzip it in your web server folder and it works.

Of course it's open source and free.

I need a fast web server on my Mac and MAMP is definitely to slow with Drupal and big database.

Finlay, I tried to use macport. It's just works, web pages load super fast and no more need to start MAMP and give my password...

The apachesolr module for Drupal provides a first class search engine with faceted search and more. This module needs a solr server to work.

This post explains how you can install the module and a solr server on Mac OS 10.6.

Netbeans (my favorite IDE) provides a sexy toolbar to debug your PHP scripts.

But with MAMP, after setting up a PHP project, the debug feature doesn't really work... (your browser runs but Nebeans doesn't stop on breakpoint)

Netbeans (mon IDE favoris) à une jolie barre d'outils permettant de débuguer du code PHP.

Il m'arrive de devoir lancer des scripts PHP dans le Terminal de Mac OSX. Malheureusement, si l'on lance:

$ php mon_script.php

On utilise alors PHP livré avec le système... ce qui pose parfois des problèmes (versions, extensions non présentes, etc..).