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Category: Mac

  • Random bad permissions on OSX

    Random bad permissions on OSX

    I occasionally run into weird permission problems after a restore of files and folders on my machine, I think it has to do with OSX trying to protect me from myself. Today I needed to fire up my coding environment on my Mac Mini, so I jumped into the folder for the code that I…

  • Set up SSL on Mac

    For testing, sometimes I need to validate web behaviors like redirects on SSL, and one of the reasons I love the Mac is that it gives me a ready to roll Apache server. I actually run a local copy of my web site on my Mac, and have it set up as a virtual host so that…

  • How Old Are You ?

    I get a chuckle over this every time it happens. Something in one of the many synch tools I use does some sort of conversion of birth dates, and I end up with alerts on my Mac that tell me somebody is having a really great birthday:

  • How to change printer’s IP address on Mac OS X

    I was updating my network to use a different subnet and realized that the last time I did that, my HP printer stopped working because a lot of the network drivers set the IP address into the printer settings. So I figured that maybe I would need to update the printer’s IP address on my…

  • Java 7 and Mac OS X

    After getting my new Mac Mini pretty well set up with my development tools, I started playing with Amazon AWS. When trying to connect to one of my instances using their built in tool, Firefox bailed and I was presented with a prompt asking me if I wanted to install Java: To open “Firefox,” you…

  • Continuous Integration: Missing mcrypt

    I’m doing some work on a project that is using PHP, and have been working on setting up some continuous integration build scripts to make sure that we have a shot at catching errors before they make their way to production. Recently some unit tests were added for the “forgot password” code, which uses the…

  • Installing Doxygen on Mac OS X

    Just a quick note – I was guided toward doxygen, which is a tool that does source code documentation. It has a DMG installer, that includes an executable to run doxygen with a wizard. But since my purpose was to run doxygen in an Ant build script, I needed to install the command line version.…

  • Mac OS X Lion (Look Ma, No DVD)

    I updated to OS X Lion a couple of days ago, and for the most part it was a smooth transition. This is the first upgrade where Apple is using their App Store concept to distribute the OS, so it was a bit scary to hit “Purchase” and watch nothing happen for half an hour…

  • Microsoft tries to Think Different

    I got an email from Microsoft today (Office Insider) that included an article about how to add a calendar to Outlook that would give you the March Madness schedule in Outlook as an example of publicly shared calendars. Publicly shared calendars are nothing new, they’ve been around for years: Apple created the webcal URI to…

  • Version problems? To the Cloud !

    Image via Wikipedia I was on my way home from a business trip and wanted to print my boarding pass. Most hotels have a PC set up that is primarily for that purpose, and this one was no different. The PC they provide is set up so that it wipes itself every time somebody logs…