Tag Archives: Apple

SharePoint and Office Live Workspace Support in Office 2008

Posted on July 21, 2009 by david

Microsoft have just released an update to Office 2008 for Mac that is now available through the Office Update mechanism. According to the Microsoft Release Notes: The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.0 Update contains changes that improve stability, reliability, … Continue reading →

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Seam Crashing Java on OS X

Posted on July 21, 2009 by david

If you’re developing Seam applications on an Apple Mac using OS X 10.4 Tiger, chances are that at some point the JVM will crash with a segmentation fault such as: Invalid memory access of location 2df4d000 eip=904716f9 This problem seems … Continue reading →

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iPhone Development Seminars.

Posted on October 9, 2008 by david

Apple have announced that they are presenting a series of seminars around the world to provide development expertise on iPhone development. The seminars provide information on code opimization, user interface design and iPhone development and run from October to December this year. … Continue reading →

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Trialling NetBeans 6

Posted on June 15, 2007 by david

I’ve just installed the latest NetBeans 6.0 (M9) onto my Mac and I like all the new features. The new Web Service Designer is pretty good although some have said that the UI does need sprucing up a bit. The other main … Continue reading →

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Nooooooooooo

Posted on January 15, 2007 by david

According to an article on Javalobby (http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t88464.html), the iPhone isn’t going to be supplied with a Java development kit. Surely Apple aren’t going to do this to developers? The iPhone looks like a great phone and I can imagine that … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro Battery Replacement

Posted on January 15, 2007 by david

I’ve had my MacBook Pro for nearly a year now and I’ve not had any problems with it. Recently, however, its started powering down without warning whilst running off battery. This usually happens when the battery is at about 40% … Continue reading →

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Subversion Support for NetBeans 5.5 on Mac

Posted on October 5, 2006 by david

I’ve been trying to get the Subversion support working within NetBeans 5.5 on my Mac and have been getting the following error message when I try to access the repository: NetBeans Subversion support requires Subversion executable! Install Subversion 1.3 (http://subversion.tigris.org) … Continue reading →

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NetBeans 5.5 RC1 Fixes Mac Issues

Posted on October 5, 2006 by david

I’ve had quite a few issues with NetBeans Beta 2 running on my Mac. Occasionally (particularly when opening projects), NetBeans beta 2 presents a stack trace before completing an operation. I’ve just downloaded the new RC1 and I’m pleased to … Continue reading →

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Subversion client for Mac OS X

Posted on September 25, 2006 by david

This question is probably asked a lot, but are there any really good Subversion clients for Mac OS X? By really good, I’m thinking of something along the lines of TortoiseSVN on Windows. I’m currently using svnX which is good, but it doesn’t support … Continue reading →

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Interesting feature about Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update

Posted on April 4, 2006 by david

The latest update is available for both PPC and Intel Macs. You can get details about the download here and here. For some reason the PPC download is 65Mb whereas the Intel download is 163Mb. Good job those Intel Macs are faster

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