Dear Mac users,
There have been a number of issues with configuring XAMP on the
Mac for use with NetBeans IDE, most significantly that XAMP sets
the owners of MySQL databases to "nobody", blocking Apache
access. Therefore I have changed the Mac OS setup tutorial to use MAMP instead of
XAMP. In my opinion, the MAMP setup is more straightforward than
the one for XAMP, anyway.
This weekend I was doing some development for one of our projects and we needed to make screenshots of a web pages (see my next posts about this task). I’ve managed to develop small piece of code which uses GtkMozEmbed component (Mozilla Gecko-based renderer for web pages) to create screenshots of any page, but there was some problem… The problem was a following: GTK+ library can’t work w/o fully-functional X server running on your machine. Obviously I didn’t want to run such software (no monitor/keyboard/mouse, dumb graphics adapter on the server, etc, etc) so I’ve tried to find some solution… And in this tiny article I’ll describe the method I’ve managed to find.