Category Archives: macOS

Path environment variable at IntelliJ on macOS

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 16. January 2018
Lately I encountered a problem with IntelliJ on macOS I wasn’t aware of so far. For a new project I joined it was necessary to let Java execute a shell script which resides in /usr/local/bin and calls another script. Putting all the questions for the reason behind this aside I was pretty puzzled when I […]
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Automation via shell aliases

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 10. January 2018
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 […]
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Find and kill a process on a specific port (lsof)

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 9. November 2016
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 […]
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Solution for the IntelliJ issue on macOS Sierra

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 3. October 2016
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 […]
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