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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.

Netbeans, Subversion and Mac

conny.lundgren — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:38:10 +0000

NetBeans has SVN support pretty much out-of-the-box, but on OS X you will be presented with the not so obvious message

NetBeans Subversion support requires Subversion 1.3 executable!

Install Subversion 1.3 (http://subversion.tigris.org) or later,
add it to PATH,
test by running ’svn –version’ from command line, and
finally restart IDE, please

Since I apparently has forgotten how I made it work before here is the instruction for future reference, hopefully this will save me (and perhaps others) from some frustration.

Fire up a terminal

Navigate to your Netbeans installtion folder like
cd /Applications/NetBeans5.5.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/bin

Open the netbeans file in your favorite editor

On the first line (after comments) add
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH

Save the file, and restart NetBeans

Your all set!