Quote of the day!
“I unlocked the secrets of this email.” From my co-worker who helped me decipher an email sent to me from someone whose grammer is… not too good. Ah. This hit it right on the head!
Month: December 2010
Using DTerm and the shell to rename files
I download files from my bank that have some really long name to them and at the end of the name, is the date. The date is not formatted, of course, and I wanted to rename the files easily, without manually parsing out the string. Now on my computer, I have DTerm and TextMate at … Read more
How do I know if a method is available?
The Mac OS supports, and has for a long time now, methods for checking whether or not you have functionality available to you from the SDK or from a class that was built by another developer. This may be compared to COM, which is fair, but the implementation is much richer.
Changing library dependency paths
If you want to change what your host application is dependent on, without having to rebuild it, you can use the install_name_tool app for changing this: install_name_tool -change oldreference newreference appname install_name_tool -change /usr/lib/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib @executable_path/../Frameworks/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib MySuperApp This is pretty useful for cases where you might have a dynamic library located in a static location, but … Read more