What is a power of two image?
Ok, here was something that wasn’t immediately explained to me so Google saved the day and now I...
Fact of life: people don’t understand design
Hmm… Is that really true? You can spend a ton of time on UI development and really miss...
Using OpenMP and Xcode
During my pilgrimage to Apple in Cupertino California last year, I got to meet some really bright developers at a...
What the hell is a Regular Expression?
Wow, this is a loaded question. Some of our favorite software tools give us the ability to use...
How to extract all zip files within multiple subdirectories
In Mac OS X, using the Terminal application, it is possible to uncompress all zip files that are...
Probably the best $90 spent
During the day, I am a programmer. And at night, I am a programmer and I am happy...
Getting the datatype of an object
In Java and C#, it’s really easy getting the datatype of an object that you are working with....
Tell me how you really feel about GDB…
I have some complaints about working with Xcode and GDB, but this guy had a mouthful to say: Click...
Using Subversion on Mac OS X, Part I
The long and short of it This article covers how to quickly install Subversion on a standalone Mac...
Using Cocoa to resolve Unix file paths with tildes
Quick! How do you expand a file path that has a tilde in a program? Luckily, you can...