What is a const? If you don’t know… then leave. Actually, don’t leave. I’m just kidding and you should know that by now. Anyway, a lot of developers know what a const is, but not too many coders use it enough and those that do use it, may not actually now it’s full potential. For … Read more
Ok, here was something that wasn’t immediately explained to me so Google saved the day and now I understand. A power of two image is an image where either side of the image is a whole number when you find the square root. So, 1, 2, 4, 16, etc. are ok because they can be … Read more
Hmm… Is that really true? You can spend a ton of time on UI development and really miss the boat on that one. Microsoft is a great example of this. Now before you go attacking me saying that I’m some sort of Apple hippie freak, let me explain myself. Microsoft, in all of their glorious … Read more
During my pilgrimage to Apple in Cupertino California last year, I got to meet some really bright developers at a performance workshop. Of the people who were presenting, Intel was there touting OpenMP. Of course, Apple’s Xcode didn’t yet support OpenMP unless you followed some up-the-sleeve tricks: http://alphakilo.com/openmp-on-os-x-using-gcc-42/
Wow, this is a loaded question. Some of our favorite software tools give us the ability to use a Regular Expression in the search. But what is a Regular Expression? To explain this, let’s describe a problem. You are working in a document and you realize that all of the numbers in the document that … Read more
In Mac OS X, using the Terminal application, it is possible to uncompress all zip files that are littered within a directory structure with a single command: find . -iname “*.zip” -type f -print -execdir ditto -x -k –sequesterRsrc ‘{}’ ‘.’ \; To use this command, you first has to ‘cd’ to the root of … Read more
During the day, I am a programmer. And at night, I am a programmer and I am happy with that fact! However, at work, I have 2 Mac’s that have the ivory keyboard that Apple shipped with their computers prior to the new aluminum one and I am not happy with that. I used them for 4 … Read more
In Java and C#, it’s really easy getting the datatype of an object that you are working with. If you don’t know what I am talking about, post a comment and I’ll explain it in more detail.Well anyway, surprisingly, I never had the need, until now, to do the same thing in C++. In other languages, you … Read more
I have some complaints about working with Xcode and GDB, but this guy had a mouthful to say: Click here. You know, most of us developers work on timelines that are already too short and the people mandating the schedules live in their own world, but this is something we all live with and having a … Read more
The long and short of it This article covers how to quickly install Subversion on a standalone Mac OS X workstation. If you are a developer who has used a source control program like CVS, and really don’t care about all of the different ways of setting up SVN, other than for personal development purposes, … Read more