Sometimes you’ll come across applications that will require a specific version of Java. This will be because other versions of Java will have extra libraries that may not be compatible. To install a specific version of Java on Mac OSX with homebrew, go to Github AdoptOpen JDK to see what version you need. The basic… Read More »
When you open terminal you’ll probably be greeted with: Last login: Sat Jan 25 07:54:26 on ttys001 /Users/sean> How to get rid of Last login or other Method Of The Day (MOTD) messages? It is a 2 second fix. Just type “touch .hushlogin”. Just the presence of this file will suffice.
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Sublime is a great text editor. It is fast and powerful but there is one annoying default setting which is all the tabs do not show by default. Instead, they overflow on the right hand side where you have to click on the triangle/arrow to display the other tabs in order to navigate to it.… Read More »
If you are trying lite server and want to open up another browser using the bs-config.json file and you get the following error: “Couldn’t open browser (if you are using BrowserSync in a headless environment, you might want to set the open option to false)” you are probably using a config file of: { “port”:… Read More »
UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. The most popular version is UTF-8 which represents 8 bits or 8 one’s or zero’s. (11111111 -> 00000000). The secret though is that it uses up to 4 bytes. We know that 1 byte = 8 bits so 4 bytes gives us 32 bits. 8 bits can represent 255… Read More »
Here is a great write up explain what the cryptic symbols mean. https://medium.com/@codenameyau/step-by-step-breakdown-of-dev-null-a0f516f53158 Combine this with command -v to bypass “normal function lookup” from https://askubuntu.com/questions/512770/what-is-use-of-command-command we can use this to check if certain applications exist.
If you are working with json and want to view it in a pretty format within Sublime, you can install an extension very quickly. The long way on a Mac is to navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages and run this command from a terminal: git clone https://github.com/dzhibas/SublimePrettyJson.git Restart Sublime and the open up some unformatted json… Read More »
If you are trying to install Eclipse and you get the following error: The JVM shared library “/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/../lib/server/libjvm.dylib” does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol. You want to: Right click the installer file and select ‘show package contents’ Go to Contents and open Info.plist At the bottom of this file, you’ll see a commented section… Read More »
Getting a php hello world up and running is very quick in OSX. First of all, everything is there already. Apache and php. To start apache run: > sudo su > apachectl start Then go to http://localhost and you should see: The web directory is /Library/WebServer/Documents If you put hello.php there <html> <head> <title>PHP Test</title>… Read More »