Setup Ruby development environment with rvm on Mac OS X

Posted on Sat 05 April 2014 in Development • Tagged with Mac, Ruby

Since I experimented with some Ruby web application stuff the last weeks, I want to share some of my conclusions how to setup a development environment which is working for my two major platforms, Mac and Linux. This post will cover the setup of an easy to use development environment …


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Install Tomcat with Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse, Tomcat

Howto install Tomcat with Eclipse IDE on MacOS X.

What we need:

Tomcat

Eclipse JEE

1. Extract Eclipse into your Applicationfolder and Tomcat to your prefered location for example into your home directory.

2. change into the apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin directory and make all .sh files executeable

cd <pathtoyourtomcat …

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Install Eclipse CDT on Windows 7

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with C++, Eclipse, mingw, minsys, Windows

How to install Eclipse CDT on Windows 7.

First of all we need a c++ compiler for Windows. The most popular c++ compiler is mingw. You can download it on the sourceforge project page.

We need 2 packages from this page.

1. mingw installer

2. minsys installer

First step is …


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Install Git plugin for Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse, Git

Git became one of the most popular distributed revision control system. It was developed by the linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds and has a big community. To include Git in your workflow or make it possible to review a repository you are working on it's nice to have it included …


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Install Mercurial Plugin on Mac OS X and Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse, Mercurial

This howto explains you howto install the HgEclipse plugin on MacOS X.

This howto explains you step by step how can install the Mercurial plugin for Eclipse on Mac OS X Systems.

Eclipse should be setup and running.

1. We install Mercurial on your system. You should have the newest …


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How to delete saved passwords in Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse

I saved my username and password for subversion repository but I wasn't able to change them.

After some research I found a way to clear all saved passwords and usernames. On Mac OS X just move the ~/.eclipse_keyring away or delete it if you know all your usernames and passwords …


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