Mac OS: App Translocation and Android Studio updates failure
How Apple’s app translocation breaks Android Studio updates
Diagnosing Mac apps which won’t open (error -10810)
Occasionally, my mac applications end up in a corrupt state where they won’t open. I recently encountered this with Deluge. The first step to diagnose is to open Terminal and open them in the terminal via $ open -a deluge […]
Mac OS X Primer (Part 2): Migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac for software engineers
Booting process The bootloader loads the kernel stored in /mach_kernel. Tip: Use rEFIt as a bootloader for dual booting into GNU/Linux. Kernel launches the launchd process which is equivalent of init in GNU/Linux. launchd loads startup processes from several directories (/System/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchDeamons, […]
Mac OS X Primer: Migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac for software engineers
This blog post contains a collection of small tips for engineers migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X for software development. Note: In another post, I wrote about why there is a dearth of a good GNU/Linux laptop.