OS X Lion: Enable One Finger Drag Gesture
Lion doesn’t come with the same one finger click-and-drag gesture that used to be in Snow Leopard, and instead the user has an option of enabling a three finger drag gesture through the system...
View ArticleOS X Lion: Enable Forward/Back History Navigation Gesture for Finder and Chrome
Unfortunately the forward/backward history navigation gesture doesn’t work out of the box in OS X Lion for Finder and Chrome. This is because both these applications (and maybe others) expect the...
View ArticleOS X Lion: Change Finder Sidebar Font Size
One of the first thing that I noticed in Lion was the huge font in the Finder sidebar, which IMHO makes the whole Finder window look very ugly: The size of the font can be quite easily changes, but the...
View ArticleDownload and Install Java Source and Documentation on OS X
UPDATE: These instructions have been updated with the changes made to the Apple Developer Downloads site, and modified to not be specific to Lion. The Java installation in OS X doesn’t come with the...
View ArticleOS X Lion: Reverse Two Finger Scroll Direction
The default scroll direction in OS X Lion has been inverted to be the same as what you would be using on an iOS device. Although it makes perfects sense on an iOS device, this new scroll direction is...
View ArticleDownload and unpack JBoss AS 7 distribution through Maven
I quite unintentionally happened to find the JBoss AS 7 distribution in the JBoss maven repository while looking for something completely unrelated. My first thought when I found this was that given...
View ArticleRunning integration/acceptance tests in JBoss 7 using Cargo
Some integration tests and almost all acceptance tests require the availability of a deployed application, and it’s always a good idea to run your tests by deploying the application into the target...
View ArticleSharing (Export/Import) IntelliJ IDEA Code Style Formatters
Unlike Eclipse, IntelliJ doesn’t seem to provide a way to export and import code formatters through the GUI. Instead we need to manually copy a particular file from/to an directory created by IntelliJ...
View ArticleConverting the Appcelerator Titanium JSON API to JavaScript
I’ve been spending some time playing around with Appcelerator Titanium Mobile recently, and been doing most of it using Titanium Studio, which is an IDE built on top of Aptana, which in turn is built...
View ArticleAppcelerator Titanium JavaScript Code Completion in IntelliJ
This blog post shows you how to add code completion and documentation lookup support for Appcelerator Titanium in IntelliJ IDEA. This is mostly building on top of the posts made by Amit Kothari and...
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