Tomcat launchd OS X (automatically start)

May 10, 2008 in Information Technology, Internet, Java, OS X, coding

Here is a great resource for using launchd to automatically start tomcat on your OS X machine.

E*Trade … ooof

November 14, 2007 in Information Technology, Java, OS X, Stocks, Trading

I am still keeping my account even though they are have financial issues (at least for now).  I suspect someone will buy them in short order (or at least the brokerage business).  As I have said before, their trading platform and website are very nice.  However, I may move some funds to TradeStation until the [...]

thinkorswim

July 15, 2007 in Java, OS X, Stocks, Trading

I was just looking back over my posts and realized that I have never really looked at the thinkorswim products as a good trading platform for Apple OS X … I see, like E-Trade, their thinkDesktop trading platform is Java based … I might need to check it out (I just can’t help myself). [...]

iPhone to do lists … Ta-da

July 14, 2007 in Information Technology, Java, Mobile, OS X, Ruby On Rails

37Signals Ta-da List supports iPhone quite well … Wish I could make a direct link to my list from an icon on my homepage of my iPhone …

OptionsXpress relationship with INVESTools

October 3, 2006 in Java, OS X, Option Trading, Stocks, Trading

As a follow-up to my post on trading platforms for OS X … It will be interesting to see if OptionsXpress will be looking for a new partner for the Java Charting …
INVESTools to buy thinkorswim for about $340 mln

Trading platforms for Apple Mac OS X

October 3, 2006 in Information Technology, Java, OS X, Option Trading, Stocks, Trading

I spend quite a bit of time trading … I buy and hold some stocks, but I spend more time trading options (naked, covered, spreads). For a long time I used Schwab for my primary trading account, but switched about a year ago because I discovered E*Trade (NYSE: ET) offers what I [...]

Eclipse, Intellij IDEA, JBuilder on OS X

September 30, 2006 in Information Technology, Java, OS X

I have successfully used many IDEs on OS X in the past … Eclipse, Intellij IDEA, JBuilder … What I have cared about recently is support for building Web Applications and the ability to have updates immediately deployed to a running Tomcat server. Here is what I have found:

Eclipse is always a good [...]

Tomcat on OS X

September 29, 2006 in Java, OS X

This site is great, but here it additional info ..
We are up to 5.5.x now … download here. Get the Core version and grab the .tar.gz version.

sudo mv apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar.gz /usr/local/
cd /usr/local
sudo gnutar -xzvf apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar.gz

I like to create a symbolic link so we can refer to it in /usr/local/tomcat instead of /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.20

sudo ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.20 [...]