Archive for January, 2009

Problem Adding Flex SDK in IDEA

…on a Mac or Linux.
I downloaded the latest Flex SDK from Adobe and simply unzipped the files in a directory on disk. I then entered module settings in IntelliJ IDEA and tried adding a new Flex SDK, simply by pointing IDEA at the unzipped directory. But, IDEA complained that “the selected directory is not a [...]

January 30, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tools, Uncategorized  No Comments

Changing Port Number of svn+ssh Subversion Protocol

Most times, when we access subversion through the svn+ssh:// protocol, we are satisfied with the default behaviour, which is simply spawning ssh behind the scenes, and have it connect using the default port 22 of the ssh protocol.
But, sometimes this is not enough. In my previous post I just described how ssh is great for [...]

January 11, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Tools  5 Comments

SSH Tunneling Tricks – Executing a specific command at pubkey authentication

OpenSSH must be – by far – the most neat, handy and cool tool in the tool chain. At least when accessing remote unix boxes, that is.
Currently, I have been preparing a laptop for some remote work, and have been using OpenSSH to dig some tunnels through the company firewall, through a couple of hops and forwarding [...]

January 11, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Operating Systems, Tools  One Comment