Mac OS X setup tips & tricks

This post is kind of a reminder for myself when re-setting up my MacBook on which tools and applications I found to be useful for daily business. Feel free to comment, make suggestions or even send in pull-requests if you have different recommendations. :) Applications System Little Snitch Personal Firewall which enables you to see and d... Read more 20 Mar 2013 - 3 minute read

Glassfish 4 on Nexus7

As you might have read in my previous blog post I’m currently doing Proof-Of-Concepts on what is possible with Java on a tablet like the Google Nexus7 device meaning a Nvidia Tegra chip which itself is an ARMv7 processor. Thankfully there is a team at Ubuntu which dedicates its work to bringing a desktop linux to the tablet which supports the w... Read more 13 Dec 2012 - 2 minute read

Ubuntu and Java on Nexus7

In this blog post I describe how to setup Ubuntu Linux and Oracle Java on my newly acquired Google Nexus7 device. This shall be the foundation to checkout the things you can do with JavaFX on a Tablet computer. My environment is a Macbook Pro (MBP) running on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The Nexus 7 (in my case the 16gb version) is attached to th... Read more 30 Nov 2012 - 5 minute read

Enhancements for Mac OS X Finder.app

Today I’d like to share three AppleScripts with you which really enhanced my general usage of the Finder.app in Mac OS X. If you are not a Mac OS X user, you can stop reading here. In general Finder.app lacks some features I really wanted to have, among these were copy the POSIX path of the selected file/ folder open the selected folder/ ... Read more 26 Nov 2012 - 6 minute read

JBoss Forge in IntelliJ IDEA

At this year’s JavaOne I attended a talk by Marius Bogoevici (@mariusbogoevici) and was once again pointed at the JBoss Forge project. Last time I took a look at Forge it was still called Seam Forge which was about a year ago. It seriously matured since then. JBoss Forge is a shell for rapid-application development at a command-line level. It s... Read more 03 Nov 2012 - 1 minute read

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