Archive for the ‘cocoa’ Category
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Comment spam is a pain in the butt - to the point that XCake.org ended up with over eight thousand lines of spammer links and crap because I allowed open comments. This overhead caused a huge load on my MySQL server and it affected performance elsewhere so, in the end, ...
Posted in Code, Commentary, Mac, cocoa, iPhone, infurious | No Comments »
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Pretty much summed up my lunchtime coding session.
XCode seems preternaturally sensitive to hidden control characters so tonight I'm going to have to retype all of the code in my project all over again. I checked it line by line and every { was followed by a corresponding }.
Frustrating but part ...
Posted in Annoyances, Code, cocoa | 6 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
I thought the NDA was still in force?
Still - iphoneDevelopmentCentral is just great.
I've copied these links to the XCake.org web site.
Posted in cocoa | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Ian Robinson writes about Northern Ireland Cocoa Developers
Some of us from Northern Ireland, who were at WWDC, are thinking of setting up a local Cocoa developers group to met and discuss development and technologies related to the Mac OS X and iPhone/iPod touch platform. It is envisioned that there will ...
Posted in BarCamp, Commentary, Made me laugh, cocoa | 7 Comments »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
The site is up. It's for people interested in Cocoa and geographically on the Island of Ireland (North and South).
http://xcake.org
There's just a Wiki there at the moment. More to come if there's a perceived need for it.
Posted in CoWorking, Code, Cool, cocoa | No Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
I'm not too embarrassed by this. It's a derivative of the first example from Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition. I'm not embarrassed because I did it by the book and then trialled and erred my way into producing this.
All it does is give you a random number ...
Posted in cocoa | 4 Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Gus Mueller twittered this great Flickr set from Mikey, the support guy at Panic.
This one is my inspiration.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I'm working my way finally through the Hillegass Cocoa book - but of course my 2nd Edition arrived 4 months ago and I never had the chance to read it and 3rd Edition is out and covers the new XCode so I'm going to be fighting an uphill struggle. I'll ...
Posted in Code, cocoa | 7 Comments »