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Couple of useful OS X Tricks

Marko Tomic — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:31:58 +0100

I just stumbled upon 30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks To Get The Most From Your Mac and I thought I'd write down a couple of tricks I found useful.

Startup Script for Apache Tomcat on Snow Leopard HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:01:44 +0100

I have just set up Apache Tomcat startup script on Snow Leopard and I thought I'd blog about it while it's still fresh in my head. Assuming you have installed Tomcat in /usr/local/tomcat directory, you can do the following to start Tomcat on system startup.1. Create your startup script:{xtypo_code}sudo nano /usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat{/xtypo_code}{xtypo_code}#!/bin/sh
# Tomcat Startup Script

CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat; export CATALINA_HOME

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Read More...

Illegal override of activate in mx.managers.SystemManagerProxy - Solved

Marko Tomic — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:03:15 +0100

I've been quiet on the blog front for a while. I was having a rough time scuba diving in the tropics and so on... If you're interested, take a look at some of my holiday pics I uploaded on facebook.

Now back to business.

At Learnosity, I've been working on migrating our core Flex 3 app to Flex 4. One of the problems I encountered was embedding an external swf file into the main app. I was getting the following error:

{xtypo_code}#1053 Illegal override of activRead More...

SSH Tunneling - Add secondary address to your loopback interface HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:14:44 +0100

I'm writing this one for my own reference because almost everything I do for work, is done through SSH port forwarding. If you're not familiar with SSH port forwarding, you'll have to read up on it elsewhere. And the reason why we use SSH port forwarding is because it is secure and powerful.

I generally set up my port forwards to run on my local computer on an arbitrary port and configure SSH to create a proxy connection to the normal port on a remote computer. Then I configure myRead More...

MAMP vs Entropy PHP on OS X

Marko Tomic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:36 +0100

Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is:

1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source - e.g. 5.2.11
2. Install Entropy PHP (note: this will modify your SL Apache config files).
3. Or just be lazy and install MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a few seconds.

I choRead More...

Snow Leopard Gotchas

Marko Tomic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:29:48 +0100

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from 10.5 and everything went relatively smoothly. I was particularly pleased to see extra 13GB of hard drive space.

However, I noticed a couple of things that I wasn't so pleased about:

Apache unable to start
PHP disabled
MySQL unable to start

I've already walked a couple of people through this, so if you run into the same problem you can try the following:

1. For some reason Snow Leopard modified the following file: