Thanks to my co-worker for showing me this really cool trick in TextMate! I have this project I’m working on where I need to represent enum values as text for analysis purposes. The enum though is not set up to be easily iterated over (Dr. Dobbs) (James Kanze), so I added a stream operator to … Read more
So, if I have a CrashReporter dump for a release application I am trying to troubleshoot, I found the following page very helpful: http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/symbolizingcrashdumps.html Essentially, I can take the crash report and find out what line of code the error occurred at. But, you have to have the source code in order to do this … Read more
I had to rebuild my workstation, and alone with it, install a new hard drive that is to be used for testing. Now both drives have Windows 7 installed. When the installation for the second drive started up, all I saw was: Windows 7 Windows 7 as my boot options… Shoot! Which one do I … Read more
I thought this was a little far fetched when I read the description on thefirearmblog.com, but the video was actually really good.
I love how stable the PC is… especially when I need to use it most… I’m rebuilding my Windows 7 workstation… again… and this time, I’m cloning my disk… maybe in the hopes that I can restore from an image next time I have a situation like this.
A co-worker of mine had trouble debugging his library in Xcode. For some strange reason, GDB would not stop at any of his breakpoints. He did the usual printf and NSLog to see if the code was even being called, and sure enough… it was. The only way he was able to fix it was … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/embed/Sv2LCSJcDaE
You can never test too often…. and on that subject, you should try to test early. Getting into the mood of writing test cases though takes away from the fun of actually coding. Recently, I have paid a lot more attention to testing and test cases than I ever had in my coding past. Reason … Read more
You should catch errors but be very careful about swallowing it and not re-throwing the exception. I have seen this in certain projects where exceptions are swallowed and the developer of the offending code never even knows that this happened. So months can go by without any testing, you are doing early testing … right?!… … Read more