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IntelliJ & Spaces, a fix (kind off)

conny.lundgren — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:49:19 +0000

This isn’t exactly new, but some java-apps seem to have problems with Spaces in Leopard, i.e. not changing to the correct spaces when switching program.

I found a pretty easy solution, simply open the help window and put it behind the main IDEA window, spaces works fine (although this is kind of hacky).

Apple seeds JDK 6 to testers

conny.lundgren — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:09:07 +0000

Finally, after months of silence something about the JDK6 for OS X has surfaced. According to Macrumors.com apple seeded Java SE 6 Preview 8 for Leopard yesterday evening. According to the report it’s Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_01, and apparently requires a 64-bit capable Intel-mac. So there is still room for ranting about the support for PPC platform.

I for one think it’s wonderful news to get support for JDK6, not so much for development purposes but for the improved performance and some random goodies included in the JDK.

Update: Apparently Apple also made Java SE 6 Developer Preview 8 available from the ADC site today. Go grab it, and stop complaining..

Leopard trick: Latest App, doc, server etc.

conny.lundgren — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:41:13 +0000

Just a quick tip for the Leopard users out there, to have a stack in the dock which reflect you Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Favorite Volumes or Favorite Items simply do the following

Fire up a terminal and enter

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

Followed by a restart of the dock with the trusted

killall Dock

There should now be a new stack on your dock, change the “mode” by right(ctrl) clicking the stack to change what the stack shows.

No JDK6 with OS X 10.5 Leopard

conny.lundgren — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:25:02 +0000

So what’s up with Java on the Mac? After the initial chock of Apple not mentioning anything about Java 6 support in Leopard, as well as pulling the alpha/beta release from ADC a while ago the future of Java as a first-class citizen on the Mac has been questioned around the blogosphere..

Well having just installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro (The upgrade was painless, 30min) I can say that JDK 6 is not included in Leopard, those of you might remember that JDK 1.5 shipped exclusivly with the Tiger release, and I was really expecting the same this time.

Hopefully (and most probably) Apple will release a JDK 6 sometime, but the real question here is “sometime”, how long can you afford to wait? (For the record Sun released JDK6 almost a year ago at December 11 2006)

So how does this effect you? Personally I am not that effected since I mostly do Enterprise development, but I could use the speedup in JDK6 for running IDE’s and other tools.

OS X “must-have” software, revisited

conny.lundgren — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:11:40 +0000

Following up on a popular, but somewhat outdated list of my “must-have software for OS X”, some applications remains the same and some have been replaced.

Without further ado.

Bonecho (Firefox) – Nothing to say really, Firefox native build, some usefull plugins I use Adblock, Google Browser Sync, Google Gears, PDF Download, Server Spy, Stylish, Better Gmail, del.icio.us Bookmarks )
CoreDuoTemp
Disco
MagicDraw UML
MailActOn
Mailplane
MailTags
MenuCalendarClock iCal
OmniDazzle
Quicksilver
SlimBatteryMonitor
Skype
SpamSieve
SCPlugin
Textmate
The Unarchiver
UNO
Yep
VMWare Fusion