Signup for a Remote Source Code Repository (July 2, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. In the old days, developers used file system directories with customer naming conventions to organize their code and support files. This was a problem if the files were stored locally and the computer hard drive failed, and it made it difficult to keep code in sync when [...]

Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Git Repository (June 24, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Code repositories are server-based applications to store common code. Our post Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Subversion Repository (June 15, 2011) provides instructions on connecting an IDE to a remote SVN repository (Centralized Version Control System), while our post Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote [...]

Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Subversion Repository (June 15, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. There are commercial repositories and open source repositories. The commercial repositories charge, usually based on the number of people accessing the repository. Open source repositories can be installed on internal company servers or there are companies that host open source repositories for no or little cost (also [...]

Contextual Menus: A Macintosh Tool (January 18, 2011)

By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Contextual Menus — A Tool Macintosh users too often miss Responsible Macintosh — Safe, Secure and Polite Macin’ — Things You Should Know or Practice Introduction Several months ago I had the pleasure of making a presentation on contextual menus [CM] to the Mid-Columbia Macintosh user [...]

Connect Your Telescope to a Laptop (January 16, 2011)

By Ted Bade, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. If you have computer-controlled telescope and a decent Astronomy program, it’s a good idea to connect them. Astronomy software makes it easier to search and locate celestial bodies, plus it provides a lot more information about objects you might want to observe. Making the connection between your [...]

A Purrfect Holiday Gift:Safe, Secure and Polite Macin’ (November 13, 2010)

By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Introduction: One of the two thing I dislike at the Holiday, read that gift  giving season, is not knowing what to give my Macintosh using friends, that’s not just an out of the catalogs gift.  The other is that I’m always short of cash and figuring [...]

Apple and Oracle Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX (November 12, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. The Java Developer Mailing list has been buzzing about Apple’s recent announcement to deprecate Java. Apple even statied it would not include Java in the next version of OS X (Lion, due the middle or end of next year). Bad news for Java developers, educators, students, and [...]

To Site Search or to Google: That is the Question (September 7, 2010)

By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Introduction In a moment of passing enlightenment, I finally figured out how to speed of my almost daily searches for explicitly selected articles I wanted to collect and archive. These are the items I tabbed for downloading while reading my paper magazine subscriptions. The consolidated information [...]

The Triple Play: The Dock, Sidebar, and Menu Bar (August 26, 2010)

By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. — Apple’s tools to shortcut your daily workload Introduction: A few months ago I attended a very interesting Mid-Columbia Macintosh club (Tri-Cities, WA) and listened to Scott Armstrong our president discuss Snow Leopard and his favorite Macintosh 101 things. At that time, I once again realized [...]

Oldies But Goodies I’d Rather Not Mac Without (July 6, 2010)

By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Introduction As noted in recent macCompanion articles, and columns  I am always a late adopter of a new operating system. Why? Let someone else bug fix. Updating to current conflict free software tools, is always a bit of a wait – shareware developers have other [...]

Google to the Max (July 6, 2010)

By Harry {doc} Babad, Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved Introduction As a few of our readers know, I spend a great deal of time looking for information. The items I look for range from: Specific Information related to nuclear waste disposal on which I consult. General Technical information on energy, the environment and other issues [...]