I decided to up my command line game. I do acknowledge that there are tons of different ways on doing things, especially when you have to deal with the command line. So don't shoot the pianist. Step 0: I do use brew Use brew to manage a lot of command line tools ,gui apps. You can find it here. I also occasionally use, …

Well Santa came early for me back at Ticketmaster INTL. When I joined I kind of made a mistake and swapped my original 15 MacBookPro for a smaller one 13inch/iCore5, because I did not want to carry stuff around (even though I don't commute a lot to he honest). Eventually after a year, I am thankful, to receive a …

I find my self doing lots of work in the terminal lately, I have to admit I was not that type of guy or an expert, but over the years I needed to step my bash/cmd/terminal game. So I just red yesterday this very short and simple article, and I was like, wait a minute I've done some of these mistakes in the past. Master …

Wow, how many lost minutes or hours, every day, because I did not know this a long time ago. I am bit ashamed. How many times, while working on your mac you get to Open a File, and the system by default opens an editor or an application that is usually set by default. I can not count how many times I have killed Xcode …

I was watching today a short video by the Docker guys on how to setup the new multi host network capabilities, just introduced with Docker 1.9 . In the beginning, the engineer doing the demo was echoing in his terminal screen some very cool, labels and text. Eventually was piping echo to a tool called figlet (I knew it …

This post is not targeting people who already consider themselves MacOSX powerusers or they already are users of brew and cask. I have to admit, I discovered the power and easiness of these tools, quite late in my MacOSX user life, so I have to thank my ex-colleague and friend Harris who forced me to integrate brew and …

In this post we are going to install CouchBase, a NoSQL database that has gained a lot of momentum latetly. CouchBase is very very developer friendly in terms of setting up and getting started time. Actually is the simplest. It offers a single download for many platforms (including MacOSX). You can find them here. It …

In this post we will install on our local MacOSX (Yosemite) environment, another famous NoSQL database, the Apache Cassandra. As a developer, I found Datastax, community packaging of Cassandra, very handy, seems they offer ready made MacOSX specific packages. You can of course download and install the the tarballs f …

This post aims to help all developers (not only Java) that want to develop using NoSQL datastores, specifically MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase, in MaOSX. Before starting writing code you need to have the db engines installed and ready for tests. So our goal for these mini posts will be to install all of them in our …

A quick one, you are a Java Developer and you may not still code towards JDK8 on your project but you would like your IDE or tools to make use of the all new stuff this new version of the jdk & jre brings. I assume you use the latest Eclipse version which currently is Kepler 4.3.2 . Step 1: Install JDK 8 for …