Category Archives: macOS
Automation via shell aliases
When working on software development projects there are many repetitive tasks to do, may it be the deployment of a binary, starting of different servers in docker containers or standalone, the exchange of config files for different environments, the migration of a database or something simple as the navigation to deep paths on the command […]
Find and kill a process on a specific port (lsof)
You might all have experienced the situation when you want to start a server either from within your IDE or via the terminal to only get the error that the “port is already in use” and the startup is aborted. This is mostly caused by aborting the server or a crash of the IDE which […]
Solution for the IntelliJ issue on macOS Sierra
Jetbrains has come up with a solution for the scrolling problem with IntelliJ IDEA based IDEs under macOS Sierra. They released a modified JDK8 which hast to be set as boot JDK for IntelliJ. You can download the JDK here. For setting it as the boot JDK you need to got to action menu. This […]
Path environment variable at IntelliJ on macOS