Tag Archives: osx
Xcode Build Settings
One thing I keep coming up against in Xcode projects is that the build settings aren’t quite right. Why is ZERO_LINK enabled when target T2 is built with configuration C4? Unfortunately, you quickly end up with a very large combination … Continue reading
Keychained
I’m working on an OSX interface to a web service right now. Of course, one of the requirements is for a username and password. Simple — just use keychain, right? Well, it might be simple, apart from the fact that … Continue reading
The joy of apple keyboards
Recently, I’ve been using a Linux desktop for the first time in ages. It’s Ubuntu (Hardy Heron), and it looks nice. But after using a mac for three years, I’m really missing quite a few little things. The ability to … Continue reading
ASL (Apple System Log)
I’ve just been debugging a problem with the pulse-agent on a mac. One of the big questions we had was: where the heck are the logs? The pulse-agent is managed by launchd. Apparently, this logs all stdout and stderr via … Continue reading
JavaScript.pm on OSX
Just a quick note… I was looking at RT#48699 when I noticed that MacPorts didn’t have JavaScript.pm in it’s collection. I needed to install it by hand. Unfortunately, the latest version (1.12) doesn’t install cleanly. So I’ve forked it and … Continue reading
Using a Java 6 based Eclipse with Cocoa
This is somewhat niche, but I’m going to post it anyway in case it helps somebody else… I recently saw a problem with Eclipse and m2eclipse. When I tried to import a Java 6 based project, I got an error … Continue reading
Eclipse 3.5 in Cocoa
I’m just trying out Eclipse 3.5-RC4. One of the big new features for me is that it’s now based on Cocoa instead of Carbon. There are many benefits to this, including being able to run on 64-bit Java 6. Fundamentally, … Continue reading
sandbox(7)
Like a lot of people, most of my Unix knowledge comes from an early reading of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. This is an excellent tome on the interfaces provided by the kernel to programs on a Unix system. … Continue reading
Removing CAPS LOCK on OS X
This has been bugging me for a while, but I’ve just gotten around to doing anything about it. I hate the caps lock key. I never use it and I’m always triggering it by accident. Thankfully, it’s fairly simple to … Continue reading
Expanding Outline Views in Cocoa
Thanks to a lengthy commute last week, I’ve been making a toy in Cocoa. It reads an URL, parses some XML and displays it in an NSOutlineView. Simple stuff, but it will hopefully make my life better at work, where … Continue reading