NetBeans 6.5 just came out, so I worked through a JQuery tutorial to try its JavaScript support. If you make a new web project, you can specify a folder to hold the project and a URL to view it at. This lets you do live debugging of webapps, etc. FileVault makes your home directory mode [...]
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decent postgreSQL install on OSX
public service announcement I need a good database to run locally. When I Google for ‘postgreSQL OSX’ I see a lot of old posts that start with ‘download and build readline’. No wonder people still use MySQL. If you’re on a Mac use EnterpriseDBs installer. It’s up to date and you get a reasonably sane [...]
changing the default JVM on OSX Leopard
I’ve been using a bit of Java lately, and the OSX 1.6 JVM seemed pretty stable. JRuby is the next thing on my geek list, and that runs best on Java 6. Although the 1.6 JDK was installed in the last system update, it’s not the default: hypnotoad:Desktop $ /usr/bin/java -version java version “1.5.0_13″ [...]
