This is just a quick entry on how to see which software is using which ports. This comes in handy when trying to install an application server, web server, etc, and are getting errors like "port is in use".
Basically in any Unix type derivative such as Linux such (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSe, etc.), as well [...]

It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I've had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox just didn't work at all. Today after my typical google search session, [...]

UPDATE: I was up too late, and didn't notice that it's update 6 for Java, not Java 6. This is just another update for Java 5... *sigh*
I've been up pretty late doing a little work and tying-up some last minute Christmas shopping, and out of the blue this Apple update window popped-up:

I'm super glad [...]

For those many of you (including myself) who have been waiting almost a year now for Java 6 to be properly supported on the Mac, the wait is over if you're a developer-- Landon Fuller has released SoyLatte 1.0, which is a port of FreeBSD Java 6 to MacOS X which will eventually end-up as [...]

At the request of a reader, I went ahead and researched what .DS_Store Files are, and how prevent MacOS X from creating them. In a nutshell, .DS_Store files are created by Finder to store preferences:

.DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) is a hidden file created by Apple Inc's Mac OS X operating system to store custom [...]

One of my few complaints about MacOS X is that at times I feel like it treats you with kids gloves-- many options for power users either require some sort of hacking, or simply don't exist. One such thing which is fixable is getting Finder to show hidden files. It's a quick and [...]

The default Eclipse for Mac OS X font is kind of annoying since it's way too big and reminds me of MS Comic Sans. If you try to replace it with one of the wonderful ProggyFonts without tweaking them first, you get stuck with anti-aliased fonts that look terrible. During my quest to [...]

I'm in the process of setting-up a new Apple MacBook Pro today, and during the process of trying to import and get some old SSH keys working correctly I accidently changed the permissions on my home directory. Even after scrolling back through the commands I used I'm still not even sure how it [...]

Ubuntu 7.04 was recently released, and is the first Linux distribution to include the Java SDK as a standard part of the Operating System. This is exciting news and goes to show that the effort put into open sourcing Java is starting to pay dividends. Being that Java was non-free before version 6, [...]

This past Friday marked the end of the second week at my new job which has brought many changes for me. I left a good sized development team at large company for the uncertainty for a VC funded start-up without revenue, I'm miles from a ColdFusion server and instead am working on a Java [...]