Java Evangelist John Yeary

So I was trying to figure out how to enable rndc on El Capitan so I could dump the DNS cache to check name resolution. I could run the comm...

Apple G5 Power Mac Are you an Apple G5 owner feeling a little left out by Apple? Do you have a very expensive and capable piece of ha...

I wrote an article on how to use  Secure Mercurial in GlassFish using SSL  a few weeks ago. After the article was published, I was asked...

A question was posed to me the other day on how to use OpenJDK 1.7 on NetBeans on a Mac since there is only a Developer Preview available....

While I was creating my daemon examples for my previous blog entry, I created a plist file for executing launchd based applications. The co...

I updated the Darwin10Build instructions for building the BSD port of OpenJDK 7 on the OpenJDK wiki at Oracle. I successfully built 32-bi...

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~username/ on this server. Have you received an error like the one above, then I may hav...

To use the OS X "Dirty Dot" to indicate that changes have been made that need to be saved you can use the code snippets below. T...

Per the Apple documentation, the Java library search order is as follows: User's home directory (~/Library/Java/Extensions/) Local dom...

Here are the parameters I used to install subversion on OS X. ./configure --with-ssl --with-libs=/usr/include/ssl --enable-maintainer-mode -...

I completely removed Netbeans including all directories in my home folder. I also removed glassfish and started with a complete new installa...