One of my automated builds suddenly failed with an unusual error that says ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/angular/bower-angular.git", exit code of #69 Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo. As the error suggests, the quick fix is to re-Agree to the Xcode/iOS license and […]
For my own reference, GhostScript is a great tool to compress those huge PDF files that your scanner generates. In order to use GhostScript PDF compressor, you need to install GhostScript first: brew install ghostscript Then you can run the following command to compress your original file to a smaller file gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook […]
I’m currently working on migrating a large publishing website form Drupal to WordPress and one of the things that occurred to me was that WordPress generates 3 sizes for each image that’s uploaded into Media Library. However, our Drupal website only contains a single image. To make the media library work nicely in WordPress we’ve […]
Internet Explorer for Mac Are you looking to install?Internet Explorer for Mac??Today I discovered a nice tool on Github which installs free Windows virtual machines using VirtualBox on OS X. The only reason I’d use these virtual machines is to have different versions of Internet Explorer browsers running side by side for testing purposes. So […]
Today I discovered opendiff tool that’s native to OS X – provided you have installed the Xcode on your system. It allows you to compare 2 directories and perform actions such as merge-left, merge-right etc… Opendiff simply launches FileMerge OS X utility, which is another one I didn’t know about, and displays differences between 2 […]
The first of multiple files that make up a split archive created with WinZip; uses the same compression as a standard .ZIP file, but must be decompressed along with the related split archives (.Z02, .Z03, etc.). Split archives are often used to shrink the size of large files for e-mail attachments or file downloads. They […]
I just stumbled upon?30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks To Get The Most From Your Mac?and I thought I’d write down a couple of tricks I found useful. Recent Items Stack Type this in terminal window to show a stack of your ‘recent applications’. defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; […]
I have just set up Apache Tomcat startup script on Snow Leopard and I thought I’d blog about it while it’s still fresh in my head.? Assuming you have installed Tomcat in /usr/local/tomcat directory, you can do the following to start Tomcat on system startup. 1. Create your startup script: sudo nano /usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat #!/bin/sh # […]
I’ve had problems starting up MySQL database server on startup on Snow Leopard. ?MySQL preference pane seems to be flaky and it often fails to start MySQL server. I created this startup script myself and it seems to work nicely. sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.mysqld.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> […]
I’m writing this one for my own reference because almost everything I do for work, is done through SSH port forwarding. If you’re not familiar with SSH port forwarding, you’ll have to read up on it elsewhere. And the reason why we use SSH port forwarding is because it is secure and powerful. I generally […]
Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is: 1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source – e.g. 5.2.11 2. […]
I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from 10.5 and everything went relatively smoothly. I was particularly pleased to see extra 13GB of hard drive space. However, I noticed a couple of things that I wasn’t so pleased about: Apache unable to start PHP disabled MySQL unable to start I’ve already walked a couple of people […]