Cyclomatic Complexity
I was introduced to Cyclomatic Complexity at Eric Rimbley’s course at Construx; I was facinated with the topic and found a tool that works with Visual Studio 2010 that gathers this metric: http://www.blunck.info/ccm.html
File managers
For the longest time, the only file manager I used on the Mac was the Finder. I was fine with that and I never thought of needing another program. My co-worker though uses a program named PathFinder by CocoaTech. After seeing it in action, I thought it would be a great tool for organizing my … Read more
iPad 2 doesn’t appear in iTunes
For some strange unknown reason, my iPad was not showing up under the devices section of iTunes after I upgraded to iOS 5. After much Google’ing, the only information I found helpful had me delete iTunes and reinstall it… which actually worked: How to remove and reinstall the Apple Mobile Device Service on Mac OS … Read more
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
The passing of a great visionary.
Hey, look what I found!
I found this site by accident, sporting the stylish Visual C++ 6 logo: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/cpptut.php It is pretty funny to read the tutorial on multithreading, given how new it was back then to a lot of developers and today, it’s becoming the new norm: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/multithreaded.php
List open files
On the Mac OS, if you need to know what files are open and by what application and on what disk, you can use the lsof command in Terminal. Pair that command with grep and you can isolate things like this: lsof | grep “Snow Leopard” This will show you what files are open that … Read more
How not to design a video game
This is a very funny video on how a video game should not be implemented:
WebGL
A while ago I blogged about WebGL. There are some really cool implementations of this technology at chromeexperiments.com, with a really cool demo of a water simulation and a cute video game. Thanks to altdevblogaday.com for blogging about this!
Important command to demangle C++ code in your pasteboard
Cool command line I can run from DTerm on the contents in my clipboard, outputted from Xcode: pbpaste | c++filt | mate This command will take my clipboard contents, which were originally created from Xcode, pass that to the c++filt command and then create a new file in TextMate with the resulting contents.
3D Printer! What?!
This is really something! I did not think that this was even possible. A really good presentation is given by… a kid… about why he loves his 3D printer: http://store.makerbot.com/thing-o-matic-kit-mk7.html Some of the really cools things that are made with 3D printers can be viewed at: http://www.thingiverse.com/