I created some AppleScripts that allow you to control some basic Perforce functionality in Xcode4, which was lost when Apple released the latest version of their IDE. Perforce actually published a way of checking out files using the Behaviors functionality in Xcode (Xcode and P4), but I wanted a little more. Note, these scripts are … Read more
On a multi-core Mac, running 10.8, I ran a test to compare the speed differences of incrementing or decrementing a value with no-locks, atomics and finally, a mutex lock. The no-lock is the baseline, and here is the difference in speed with the later 2 items: Atomics: 3X slower on the same thread Mutex: 7X … Read more
I actually automate Instruments to get finer grain information of what an application is actually doing. To automated Instruments, according to Apple’s documentation, all you need is the DTPerformanceSession.framework… but, you actually need more than that, and you have to find where the dependencies are located. Here are all of the libraries you need: DTInstrumentsCP.framework … Read more
ApplicationServices.framework and ImageIO.framework use their own version of libJPEG/libTIFF so if you were to use the standard version from the web, you would have a conflict when the application loads. This appears to only affect Xcode 4.X.
When was the last time you gave the Internet a great big hug? Seriously. Think about it… you love the Internet 🙂
I’ve been using Google’s C++ Testing Framework for some time now, but as soon as I tried to use C++11 in Xcode, I was met with some issues about the tuple header file not being found. Unfortunately for me, that means I had to leave that header out of my project using the following option: … Read more
Thank to a tip at MacWorld, I was able to find out what process was locking a file I wanted to delete. lsof | grep [whatever]
I took me long enough to figure out how to do this, but MacLife on has it all spelled out.
I found that when you duplicate a Xcode project, say to make experimental changes you don’t want in the original project, you find that the newly duplicated project actually points to the original project. That is because there is a workspace file within the xcodeproj bundle, project.xcworkspace, that contains the name of the original project, … Read more
Well, at least ctrl+a and ctrl+e. I haven’t tried anything else, but I was surprised to find out that these even work within OmniGraffle.