Adobe Scripting Additions

I’ve been getting warning messages in my Console log stating the “Adobe Unit Types.osax” has deprecated functions. Then, when I starting scripting Xcode with AppleScript, I’ve been getting a bunch of errors about the above listed library. Well, Adobe had something to say about that: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/516/cpsid_51615.html

Apple announces iCloud

Apple announced the iCloud service and for someone like me, this is a great service. For a while, I have been battling with the problem of having access to common data on multiple computers, whether that be documents, calendaring information, or other documents from multiple computers. Having access to that data without having to rely … Read more

Xcode Script Menu and P4

Here is another way that I am able to check out a file using the Xcode Script Menu and a keyboard hot key: #!/bin/sh # This shell script checks out the current file from Perforce # Get the file’s path components FULL_FILE_PATH=”%%%{PBXFilePath}%%%” SRC_FILE=${FULL_FILE_PATH##*/} FILE_PATH=${FULL_FILE_PATH%/*} # This line brings in my settings so that Perforce knows … Read more

Starting Google Chrome without restoring previous session

If you ever needed to open Google’s web browser Chrome, without having the previous session brought back, you can actually do this from the command line. On the MacOS, you can use the Terminal.app application to type in the following commands: $ cd /Applications $ ./Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome –home Google Chrome should start up for … Read more

Turning on the task list in VS2010

According to Microsoft, this is turned off by default for performance reasons: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/668650/task-list-is-not-working You can turn this on again in “Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++->Formatting-> Miscellaneous->Enumerate Comment Tasks”