I’m Australian, so I can’t vote for him, but what’s your excuse?

You need to follow the YourKit instructions for making sure the the appropriate extensions are in your operating systems path

Then you need to run your Eclipse RCP application with the following command line

YourRCPApplication.exe -vmargs -agentlib:yjpagent -Xmx1024M -Xms32M

If it flickers up and disappears again in a split second then you’ve either mucked up the command line or the agent extension can’t be found.

Test the sanity of your jre by running

java -agentlib:yjpagent

You should get this output:

E:\temp>java -agentlib:yjpagent [YourKit Java Profiler 7.5.10] Using JVMTI (11.0-b15;Sun Microsystems Inc.;mixed mode, sharing;Windows;32 bit JVM) [YourKit Java Profiler 7.5.10] Profiler agent is listening on port 10002… [YourKit Java Profiler 7.5.10] *** HINT ***: To get profiling results, connect to the application from the profiler UI Usage: java [-options] class [args...] <snip>

Installed Netbeans 6.5 RC1 and Groovy 1.0.3 and trying to use the create Groovy project wizard and nothing happens (no project is created and Netbeans gives no feedback)

You need to add executable permissions on your Groovy installation as they are lost during the unzipping process and Netbeans doesn’t notice:

cd $GROOVY_HOME/bin

chmod +x *

Then you should get something happening when you trying to create the project.

I’m on a two year old MacBook with 3GB of RAM, I currently have open the following applications:

1. Finder
2. Mail
3. WebKit Nightly Build (Safari)
4. iTunes
5. Microsoft Messenger
6. iPhoto
7. Terminal
8. Microsoft Word
9. Firefox
10. Jasper iReport (Netbeans)
11. iChat
12. iCal
13. Netbeans
14. Eclipse

I’ve been motivated to write this blog article as I’ve helped a number of people who have switched to Mac in the past 12 months (and more than a few who’ve gotten iPhones).

When you switch to the Mac, particularly if you are still working in a MS Windows centric office environment, you are in for a period of readjustment as you get used to your new OS and start to slip the chains of Microsoft and their way of working.

There are two levels of slipping the chain, the first is the lowest risk but the least change, that is, you can simply keep running Windows and your native Windows applications.

You can do this with a product like VMWare Fusion . You’ll need your original Windows software, but you can run your Windows Office apps within your OS X environment pretty seamlessly.

The bad news is that I think if you want to be truly productive in a Windows centric office environment, then you probably need to stop here and stick with Windows. I think its fare to say that most of the Windows compatibility aspects of OS X software are good enough for casual work but start to struggle when things get complex.

Now I’ve definitely tried to go all Mac, I own iWork 08 and I truly have tried to use it to open and work with MS Office documents - but I think it’s fair to say that it doesn’t cope well with complex Word templates or Excel spreadsheets like that 150 page RFP document or that complex Excel statistical worksheet.

The obvious alternative is the Mac version of MS Office. It’s much better with compatibility (excluding VBA) - but still has its own flaws, particularly in the area of reliability and performance. It saddens me that MS Word under Windows under VMWare under OS runs faster and more reliably that MS Office on the Mac!

It’s not a total loss, I use it day by day and it does work well most of the time, but it definitely could be improved.

Now, if you really want to make the jump and go entire Mac native, then you can do that too, and the good news is that if you avoid the need to stay compatible with your Windows based colleagues you have some excellent choices available to you.

1. MS Office Replacement iWork 08

2. Visio Replacement - OmniGraffle ($99 to $199)

This is the closest thing to Visio on the Mac, its quite a good application and will let you work with Visio diagrams. Its commercial, but like most Mac software, reasonably priced.  

1. MS Project replacement - Merlin ($225)

This replaced MS Project, again its commercial, but compared to the…. um….. crap that is MS Project, I found it much more usable and logical. Again, its reasonably priced

1. MS OneNote replacement Evernote (Free!)

This is available on Windows and Mac (And iPhone), for note taking and screenshots its great for keeping things in Sync across your devices. The ‘Save PDF to Evernote’ feature that it makes available on the Mac is good for sending those travel booking receipts to your iPhone.

1. Single Sign-on 1Password ($29.95)

With 1Password you can actually do what you should have been doing all along - keep your passwords complexly long and unguessable and different from site to site, 1Password makes this a breeze

1. What came with your Mac.

Perhaps, like me, years of bundled crap on your Windows Machine has biased you against installed software, but the Mac stuff is ‘All Stuff, No Fluff’.

Here are the highlights:

• That ‘thing’ is taking longer than I would hope. Starting to lose a little faith. #
• Faith has been restored! #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• Recent photo’s of Darcy out and about: http://gallery.me.com/steven.herod/100136 #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• Thomas Edison, why did you damn the world to buying the wrong type of lightbulb! http://twitpic.com/fuoa #

Powered by Twitter Tools.