It’s been one week since I got back from the WWDC in San Francisco and I’m still recovering from the trip. This was my first trip to San Francisco and my second trip to California. In my head I had a picture of sunny, beautiful city where everyone is walking around very blissful and happy. The only … Read more
I think I spend more time deleting spam than writing in my blog. All of the SPAM that I have been getting have been coming from the Big Nerd Ranch website. I actually took a class offered by Big Nerd Ranch for OpenGL programming. Ever since I’ve posted the review, I have been getting SPAM … Read more
Here is something that I haven’t found on the web: an example of how to create a NSWindow programatically from Cocoa. After a little bit of reading, and some head scratching, this is what I got: NSRect windowRect = NSMakeRect(10.0f, 10.0f, 800.0f, 600.0f); NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:windowRect styleMask:( NSResizableWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask | NSTitledWindowMask) … Read more
This is not an advertisement. I’ve been looking around for companies that provide SVN hosting and I stumbled on this company that claims to be 100% Carbon Neutral: http://www.dreamhost.com/. This is an interesting idea and I actually felt good about the prospect of doing business with a company that actually cared about the environment. Now, I … Read more
While I was looking at my backup log in Retrospect, I saw an error message about a directory had more than 100 folders deep. What? I took a look and sure enough, Entourage had gone on a folder making frenzy and had created well over 100 folders within each other: My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My … Read more
“Eeeerrr!”, Lifting a chair over my head with one hand and carrying my son and wife with the other, I have superhuman strength thanks to the miracle called steroids! I wish! Actually, hurt my back again and was bedridden for nearly a week. On top of that, I found out that I had a really nasty … Read more
I recently had to deal with this nasty bug on Mac OS 10.3.9 that only showed up when you prompted an Alert dialog box during a NSTableView selectionShouldChange method. Here’s what would happen. You have a NSTableView filled with your items. When the user selected any one of the rows, the selection of that row … Read more
I spend too much time on the small details. In this case, it’s the look and feel of my website. I’ve spent way too much time on the WordPress Theme webpage checking out dozens of different themes, downloading them, editing them, zipping them, uploading them, editing them, then deciding I don’t like it. I haven’t … Read more
This is old news, but something I felt compelled to write about anyway. Last November, for the first time, I packed my bag, my PowerBook and headed over to Apple. I was there to attend the a week long Performance Workshop for the product that I work on at Nikon. Now for those who don’t … Read more
2016 UpdateThe code and the Xcode project for this article is now also available on GitHub. A while ago, I worked on a project where I had to implement code in C/C++ that could calculate the distance between 2 locations within the United States. It would be nice if the Earth was flat, since this … Read more