Sep 10

Homebrew without Xcode – save 1,5 GB!

By leif.hanack development, mac-osx 2 Comments »

Homebrew is my favorite package manager. If you installed Xcode just for brew than this post might be interesting for you.

Kenneth Reitz created a GCC Installer for OSX without Xcode! Thank you. This package is about 500 MB. Compared to Xcode you save at least 1,5 GB on your SSD.

So let’s go to work:

  • Remove Xcode

    • [code]sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all[/code]
    This will delete Xcode. For more details see John’s post

  • Download and install GCC for Mac without Xcode

    • Currently 10.6 and 10.7 packages are available at https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/downloads

  • Install brew
    • /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
  • You’re done

    • You can verify your success when you receive meaningful version by calling gcc --version and brew --version

Caution:
You don’t need Xcode for formulas like gradle, groovy, maven, tomcat etc. Nevertheless some formulas will require Xcode!

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Jun 08

German Developer Should Use This Keyboard Layout

By leif.hanack development 4 Comments »

A German software developer should think about using a US keyboard because:

  • IDE shortcuts are based on a US keyboard layout, so that some shortcuts can’t be used. E.g. Ctrl-Shift-/ won’t work because / is Shift-7 on are German keyboard
  • Important characters like {,},[,],@,=,? are easily reachable
  • Only the alphabet letters z and y are switched
  • There are ways to type German umlaute more easily than on a German keyboard (cont. reading!).

Mac
Developer who can call a Mac their own should use the modified US keyboard from Jan Borchers. It allows you to press option-a instead of option-u-a for the letter รค. I think this is even better then the layout on a German keyboard. The installation is done quickly:

  • download
  • unzip
  • move Roman.bundle to /Library/Keyboard Layouts
  • move USGerman.icns and USGerman.keylayout from within Roman.bundle to /Library/Keyboard Layouts
  • restart your mac
  • add and select keyboard “U.S. With Umlauts via Option Key”

For a detailed instruction visit the above link.

Linux and Windows
Bernd Schoeller has created similar layouts for Linux and Windows

Update
If you are using CoRD to connect to windows machines you have the problem that the keyboard layout is automatically mapped to romanian. To fix this you need to open
/Applications/CoRD.app/Contents/Resources/windows_keymap_table.txt
and change the key Romanian to – in my case english: Romanian=0×409

Update
When you move the Roman.bundle to /Library/Keyboard Layout it could happen that suddenly the layout stop working. This might effect some accounts only. To prevent you from that you need to copy the *.icns and *.keyboard file into /Library/Keyboard Layout and restart your mac.

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