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Using Maven on Intellij IDEA on Mac

Sonny Gill — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:05:05 +0000

Running/Debugging a maven target on Intellij IDEA results in a big scary error message: -

Error running [...]: No valid Maven installation found. Either set the home directory in the configuration dialog or set the M2_HOME environment variable on your system.

To fix, you have to add M2_HOME variable in the Mac specific way.

Create or modify the file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, and add an entry for M2_HOME

If that file is already there, you may find that you can’t edit in a text editor because it is a binary file. First you will have to convert it to plain text (xml), edit it, and then you can convert it back to the binary format.

$ plutil -convert xml1 environment.plist

$ vim environment.plist

$ plutil -convert binary1 environment.plist

Ref: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-21225 and http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/278634

Google Chrome for Mac available in beta

Sonny Gill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:24:14 +0000

The developer release of Google Chrome for Mac has been around for a while.
Finally, the general beta release is out – Google Chrome for Mac.

Run multiple Firefox profiles as separate Applications on Mac

Sonny Gill — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:24:09 +0000

Here is a visual guide to creating multiple Firefox profiles and set them up to run like separate applications on Snow Leopard.

Creating a new Firefox profile

Open terminal and execute the following command:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --ProfileManager

This should bring up the Firefox Profile Manager -

Go ahead and create a brand new profile.

Using Automator to run the new Firefox profile as an application

Now, on to creating a proper Mac application to run Firefox with your chosen profile.

Open Automator
Choose File -> New -> Application
Choose Utilities group under Library
Drag Run Shell Script to the workflow pane on the right

Paste the following script:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P MyProfile -no-remote &amp;amp;&amp;gt; /dev/null &amp;amp;

Replace MyProfile with the name of the profile you created earlier

Choose File – Save As, and save it wherever you want to keep it. Leave the File Format as Application in the Save dialog.

Making it pretty – Changing the Application icon

Right click on the saved file and choose Get Info ( or use Cmd + I ) to bring up the Info window.
Make sure that it is not locked (bottom right corner) -
Open Finder and go to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources directory.
Open firefox.icns file in Preview (just double click it).
Click on the image shown in the main Preview pane, copy it using Ctrl – C, click on the icon in the top of Info window and paste it using Ctrl – V.

And that is it, your new Firefox Application is ready to go. You can open this even when you have the default Firefox running. And, of course, you can create as many such application as you like.

If you’d like to give different icons to different profiles, just download an icon set and use that with the above steps. One of my favourites is Carbon Firefox, or try a Google search for icons.

Google Chrome on Mac

Sonny Gill — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:34:57 +0000

Google Chrome developer release on Mac -

Google Chrome on Mac

Being a developer release, it is incomplete.
How incomplete? You can’t run YouTube videos for example, a bunch of other plugins don’t work, and lots of other good stuff missing.
GMail works though, that is what I will be using it for now.

Download it here – Chrome developer release, if you can’t wait to see Chrome running on your Mac.