Steven Jay Cohen

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Defining Web Browsers in #Eclipse on Mac OSX

May 20, 2011 - 3:56pm -- Steven
It may seem a bit counter-intuitive, but since Mac OSX is based on BSD, you open programs (including web browsers) like you do on other UNIX derivatives. In Preferences, under General, you will find Web Browsers. Add a new browser. Name it anything you like. Put /usr/bin/open into the Location. And, put -a AppName.app %URL% into Parameters (substitute your browser's real name for AppName like Google\ Chrome.app).

If you find this helpful, please let me know.

Start MAMP on login without any ugly hacks

March 23, 2010 - 7:00pm -- Steven

Running MAMP on standard ports (80 for Apache and 3306 for mySQL) makes MAMP ask for a password on each start up. I would like MAMP to start automatically when I log in without requiring a password.

There are a few ways to do this posted around the web, but they all involve hacking MAMP in one way or another. There is an alternative. Create the following AppleScript:

GWT 2.0 - making my workday easier

December 9, 2009 - 5:29am -- Steven

About 3 years ago, I moved from teaching to programming for a living. During that time, I have worked in 4GL languages like Genero from 4js, and more traditional languages like PHP, HTML, CSS, sqlite, mySQL, FileMaker, and now... Java.

Java was an incredible change for me. It was my first real Object-Oriented language (yes, I know that it is possible to write PHP in an OO style, but that is not quite the same thing).

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