Principal Software Engineer/Architect, motorcyclist, drummer, and artist
I am working on building some 508 Compliant/Accessible web sites and am testing out how well the navigation works using only the tab key.
Under Mac OS X with Firefox, Opera, and Safari, by default, the tab key does not cycle through all of the links on a web page.
Firefox:
If you want to allow a popup from a file accessed via file:///home/rchapin/some_dir/somefile.html, open FireFox’s Preferences, click on the Content tab, and click on the ‘Exceptions’ button adjacent to the ‘Block pop-up windows’ check box.
Then enter ‘<file>’ in the ‘Address of website:’ field and click the ‘Allow’ button.→ Continue reading “Allowing Popups in FireFox from Locally Sourced Files”
I am installing Eclipse on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Unpacking the
.tar.gz was no problem, however, when I went to run it for the first
time I got the following error message:
Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers
To add Eclipse to the list of ‘approved’ applications run the following command in a terminal:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/Eclipse.app→ Continue reading “How to Add an Application to the Mac Approved Software List”
A few websites and articles by professional programmers about writing code and computer science:
If you are running both VMWare (in my case VMWare Fusion 5) and a VPN that uses the 192.168.203.0 subnet you will may need to update the ip range that is used for the vmnet.
In my case, vmnet8 was configured to use 192.168.203.0 and so was a VPN connection that I was using.
As a result, if I fired up VMWare first and then attempt to make a connection to the VPN, I could not route to any of → Continue reading “Changing the VMWare vmnet IP Range when it Conflicts with a VPN on Mac OS X”
Here is a very cool static analysis tool for Java code called FindBugs that comes from my alma mater.→ Continue reading “Very Handy Java Static Analysis Bug Finder”
Recently I have started working on some projects where the use of Maven has been mandated. However, since these projects are in the early stages it has got me doing some searches for alternative Java build systems.
I found a interesting article on the topic written by Jess Johnson entitled ‘Java Build Systems: A Sad State of Affairs’. From there I found some other links to Java build systems and some other articles written on the topic.
I’ll come → Continue reading “Exploring Java Build Systems”
I am starting some new projects and am going to integrate a complete set of JUnit 4 tests from the get-go.
In the process of doing so, I found a resource that provides a great introduction to Junit 4.→ Continue reading “A Great Introduction to Junit 4”
If you want a quick way to lock your screen on your Mac do the following:
You will be asked to authenticate to make the change
Now you will be able to immediately lock your machine by pressing Control-Shift-Eject.