After installing Java 9 on my Mac, Netbeans 8.2 options to start new project, or open settings, don’t work.
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After installing Java 9 on my Mac, Netbeans 8.2 options to start new project, or open settings, don’t work.
Continue reading “NetBeans 8 new project not working with JDK 9”
There is a bug in the XAMPP installation security tool for Mac preventing updates to the .htdocs for the dashboard.
There is a bug in the XAMPP installation security tool for Mac.
Seems like they changed the xampp tools from XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp to XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/dashboard and didn’t update the XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/xampp/checkapache file.
I noticed this when I ran the XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security utility and noticed it wasn’t making my xampp pages require a password from the browser.
Turns out the command line dumps the error out and I didn’t notice it. Here’s the output (note the “No such file or directory” messages):
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If you use OBS to make your desktop recordings on your Mac, you’ll notice it creates .flv files by default. But .flv files aren’t playable in QuickTime.
There are ways to change the settings to create .mp4 files, but there are really good reasons to use .flv.
A better approach is to record in .flv and convert to .mp4 afterward using ffmpeg and a little shell script to make the commands easier.
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Installation instructions for getting ffmpeg on your Mac, which donn’t assume you know how to use Terminal or how to execute commands. Every step is outlined below with screenshots and some explanations of what the commands are, for the curious.
To convert video file formats on your Mac, you’re going to want a great piece of open source software called “ffmpeg”. But, once you have it, it may not be clear how to get it working in your Mac. Here are the steps to get ffmpeg downloaded, placed into a folder so your system can find them, and how to make them executable and usable.
Every time I connected my iPhone or iPad to my Mac, iPhoto popped up with an import dialog. Then I figured it how to disable it for good.
Every time I connect my iPhone to my Mac, iPhoto pops up with an import dialog. I tried turning it off, but it keeps coming up every time my iPhone or iPad is connected. Then I figured it how to disable it for good.
Sometimes, putting a website into a subdirectory just doesn’t cut it. You need to have the website act like it’s on it’s own first party domain. But how do you do this with XAMPP? XAMPP uses Apache web server and to do this with Apache, you would create virtual hosts.
To create some XAMPP virtual hosts on our Mac, we need to
* create a virtual hosts entry for each virtual host
* include the virtual hosts file in the httpd.conf
* add an entry in your hosts file for each virtual host
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I use VirtualBox on my Mac for “other” operating systems.
I was recently creating a new Ubuntu guest OS for doing some work with PostgreSQL on Linux. I like a GUI, so I was using pgAdmin. Normally I don’t care if the window is 800×600, but when I started using pgAdmin, I couldn’t see all of the window.
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A method for showing the UINavigationController Root View Controller in UITabBarController using introspection to determine class membership.
When programming on iPhone or iPad, it’s common to have a UITabBarController mixed with UINavigationController.
You will probably find yourself needing to show the Root View Controller of a Navigation Controller when you switch Tabs in the Tab Controller. Continue reading “Show the UINavigationController Root View Controller in UITabBarController”
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