Macos

Interesting development on Google Play: As of November 13, 2023, anyone who opens a new indie account must have at least 20 testers before their app has a chance of being published in the store, according to the latest policy change. Alternatively, one can register a business, which then requires a D-U-N-S number. The requirement of 20 testers is likely quite high, particularly for hobby developers, even though communities are already forming and existing developer forums pledge to support one another. ...

IntelliJ is without question a fantastic IDE, but learning how to work efficiently is not particularly easy for the beginner. However, it is very worthwhile to delve deeper into the functions and this includes shortcuts. I am convinced that mice and trackpads are tools for graphic artists and designers, people who write and develop a lot should keep their hands on the keyboard if possible. Shortcuts are always a complicated topic because what you want to use and what does not depends very much on your taste. Some like commenting at line level, others prefer to use block comments, and in professional projects, there are often requirements in the team or at the customer. ...

First of all: I’m one of those people who doesn’t particularly like the Mac App Store, nor all this signing for Windows etc. Tauri makes it very easy to sign apps and when you combine that with GitHub Actions, it’s even easier to deploy to all platforms but you have of course first go through the mess of getting your developer certificates. Please don’t get me wrong: I see signing and verification as very useful and adding some extra security to end-users, only the way to buy a valid certificate has always been expensive, but above all time-consuming. ...

Tauri is (rightly) praised as an alternative to Electron. Many talk about it, but without possibly testing the tool, especially not whether you can get a Tauri app published as a macOS app in the Mac App Store (MAS). Are there any stumbling blocks and, if so, which ones? The Final Product I successfully published the below app and will share my experience below and in more depth in future articles. %[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/csv2excel/id1671035450] ...

If you are using Datagrip from Jetbrains to manage your Postgres database, you might have bumped into difficulties in how to dump (or how to restore) a Postgres SQL dump. The menus are showing the “commands” but without the binaries, you can’t “run” those. I can’t remember how to install the binaries on a new machine and then I’m searching the net for information, only to usually read articles of frustrated users. On macOS, it is quite easy. All you need to do is to install “libpq”, which can be done via homebrew. ...

Favicons are cached quite heavily by browsers. So, in addition to a possible caching from a used CDN, you may need to clear the caches on the local browsers as well. Not every customer understands that if the Favicon is displayed correctly in an incognito window, a missing updated icon can only be due to the caches. On Chrome, this cache file can easily grow up to several hundreds of megabytes, so a regular cleansing doesn’t do any harm. ...

I think I’ve never developed any Xojo App w/o database access, and Postgres is my favourite. Usually, I use an SSH connection to a Linux server to use a Postgres DB on a remote server, as I have described in this article: But of course, I’m running as well as a Postgres instance locally on my mac. (compared to the past, installing Postgres on macOS is relatively straightforward today: https://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/). I’m usually not a big fan of macOS preference pane extensions, as I have seen many breaking my system in the past. But for six months now, I have been testing the below and free solution intensively, and I can recommend it. ...

Well, there are many reasons why it is cool having the possibility to connect remotely to another server. You’ll need such an option for a secure connection to your remote server to upload files and make changes on your server. But perhaps you are running a remote Database on an external server, and then again, an SSH connection is a must (at least if you want to run things securely). ...

It sounds trivial (and it is), but in the old days, you need to use some commands (depending on the used macOS version) in your terminal to either switch on or off the typical Apple Chime sound at reboot, as described here. I don’t like the sound, especially not when your mac crashes at night time and I welcomed it when Apple switched it off by default. Now with Big Sur, it is again enabled by default. ...

PowerShell Core 6 supports macOS 10.2 and beyond. There exist different ways to bring PowerShell to your system, the easiest setup is most likely to install it via homebrew, as most macOS users are using it as their favourite package manager. Once brew is installed, open a terminal window and run: brew cask install powershell This command will install the latest version of PowerShell on your Mac. You can run (now and in future) the following command to keep your installation up to date: ...