In June, Apple announced that it would make its new programming language, Swift, available as open source within the year of 2015. This came as a surprise for many, as Apple’s technologies have traditionally been thought of as closed, due to the fact that they were proprietary and that the source code was not available… read more
The first thing you have to do in order to install Kibana for Mac OS X, is to download Kibana. Kibana can be downloaded here in your browser or by running the below command in your terminal. You should download either the .zip or the .tar.gz file. curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.3.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz Be sure to replace… read more
In April 2016, Google Chrome will no longer receive updates on Windows XP, Windows Vista and certain versions of OS X.
While developing PHP applications with MAMP on OS X, it is very useful to be able to see errors being printed directly in the browser. By default, this is disabled with MAMP, but it is very easy to enable error reporting in MAMP. All you have to do is to follow the simple steps below.… read more
Installing Tomcat 8 on OS X Yosemite is actually quite easy. One can do it with the help of Homebrew or MacPorts, but I prefer to do it “by hand”. All you have to do is to follow the steps below. First, head over to the Apache Tomcat download page and download the core binary distribution… read more
If you have packaged a web application within a .war file, then you might want to check the contents of it for various reasons. There are a number of tools that can do this, but I am going to show you a simple command that can display the contents of the war file within the… read more
As always, there are many ways to accomplish this. My approach is based on Homebrew and assumes that you have it installed. If not, then the first thing you have to do is to install it. Installing nginx on OS X To install nginx, simply open up the Terminal and enter the following command. brew… read more
As with any PHP extension, the mcrypt extension can be a bit tricky to install. This guide is meant to simplify this task, and most of the work will be done in the Terminal. Before beginning, please ensure that you have Xcode installed, which can be found in the App Store as well as the… read more
Sometimes one needs to use internationalization features in PHP. It might be that a library that you are using depends upon the PHP intl extension – for instance, some validators in Zend Framework 2 do so. This article will show you how to install the things you need by hand. It has been tested on… read more