A while ago I joined the facebook network. When I started to fill the part about me in the profile section, it reminded me of something that started out a while ago. Finding Programming Zen A while ago, I worked for the marketing and research company, NPD. While I was there, I met some interesting … Read more
So, I was messing around with a Cocoa app I created to test out some imaging code I had created. The point of this code was to deliver a really large image in smaller tiles and the Cocoa app would take those images and stitch them together into one large image. Now, the code I … Read more
If you are having a hard time trying to figure out what you are going to buy that special someone who happens to be into guns… well then check out this website: Gift Guide for Shooters (22 gifts under $50) The Nikon SpotOn software looks very interesting 🙂
“He’s comfortable in his skin.” Two of my co-workers were talking about football and I only heard this phrase part way into their conversation about a player.
I had a couple of cases for my iPhone 3G and the Griffin Reveal Case, being one of the cheaper ones I’ve come to own, is also one of the most practical. It’s clear on the back, black around the borders and is pretty spiffy looking. For $20 bucks you can’t go wrong. If you … Read more
“I unlocked the secrets of this email.” From my co-worker who helped me decipher an email sent to me from someone whose grammer is… not too good. Ah. This hit it right on the head!
I download files from my bank that have some really long name to them and at the end of the name, is the date. The date is not formatted, of course, and I wanted to rename the files easily, without manually parsing out the string. Now on my computer, I have DTerm and TextMate at … Read more
The Mac OS supports, and has for a long time now, methods for checking whether or not you have functionality available to you from the SDK or from a class that was built by another developer. This may be compared to COM, which is fair, but the implementation is much richer.
If you want to change what your host application is dependent on, without having to rebuild it, you can use the install_name_tool app for changing this: install_name_tool -change oldreference newreference appname install_name_tool -change /usr/lib/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib @executable_path/../Frameworks/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib MySuperApp This is pretty useful for cases where you might have a dynamic library located in a static location, but … Read more
I have a problem where my neighbors wireless routers are causing too much interference with my own home network. I found a tool for the Mac OS on http://www.istumbler.net/ that actually shows you all of the nearby networks and what channel they are on so you can change yours to one they are not on. … Read more