Ben McCann

Co-founder of Connectifier.
Investor at C3 Ventures.
Google and CMU alum.

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2016

How SBT does dependency resolution

04/13/2016

SBT uses its own fork of Ivy to do dependency resolution. The code to do this resolution is split between a few classes such as ConvertResolver. I’ve posted below an excerpt of what SBT does. It uses a chained resolver, which I’ve simplified here to use a single resolver for demonstration purposes. IvySettings settings = Read More

Setting up Mac OSX

03/08/2016

Install Homebrew. It will fail to install packages by default due to issues writing to /usr/local. To fix this: sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local Make hidden files visible in the Finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder Change the following settings using the Mac system preferences to make the trackpad usable: Key Repeat – Read More