Another task that I needed to do after buying my Mac was to get my Web toolkit working. Apache, MySQL and PHP are very conveniently managed by MAMP, WordPress is as straight forward as always. MySQL Workbench required some fine tuning but managed to fix it properly.
Decided to document everything as I went along and prepared a well documented guide with some of my personal recommendations. Hope you will find it useful and as always all feedback is welcome.
MAMP, MySQL Workbench and WordPress setup guide
Thanks so much, Frankie. This was clear, and took me through the entire procedure without a problem. In retrospect, it was pretty complex, but I followed your directions, and moved through it one step after another. A difficult lesson well taught!