Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy

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I’ve been working a lot on different articles. One day, one topic may seem like a good idea, and another day, I run in a different direction. It’s hard work! You think you have a good idea then the voices pop up in your head: “Who would read this?”, “Who am I writing this for?”, … Read more

Sporting a new look

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Aha! As you may have noticed, this website is sporting a new look! When I first started out, I was using Aptana, a great IDE that I have been using for JavaScript/Web development that has professional features and is free. You’ll especially love this tool if you are a JavaScript developer: it has Code Complete, … Read more

Using Cocoa to resolve Unix file paths with tildes

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Quick! How do you expand a file path that has a tilde in a program? Luckily, you can use NSString to resolve the path for you. So, if you path looks like “~/Library”, you can use the stringByExpandingTildeInPath method to resolve the tilde to the full path: “/Users/johndoe/Library/”. Here is s snippet of code to … Read more

Creating writting made easier…

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So what is new? Something old actually. English is what I am referring to and I have found a new way to think about the written word! My wife picked up some stuff at the local pharmacy and with that stuff there was a copy of ‘Mac Life’, a magazine dedicated to all things Macintosh … Read more

Objective-C and C++: Friends or Foes?

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For many developers like myself, I learned a language as a means to create a program on a specific platform. Back in the early 90’s, I learned Pascal because that was the language that PC and Macintosh’s used. Later in the 90’s, I learned C++ because this was the buzzword language that BeOS, the powerful … Read more

Creating Thumbnails in a List View Control, Part 1

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A long time ago, I needed to create an application in Windows that could enumerate the contents of a folder and present the images as thumbnails within a List View Control. I had found this article on CodeGuru.com that promised to show how to do all that, but actually created nothing more than confusion. There … Read more

Finally posting some content!

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Hooray, I posted some content. The cool thing about this website is that I am posting code that I have worked on in the past. My hopes is to help people jump start their coding endeavor! Check out the coding part of this website. A new article was posted on the endeavors of displaying images … Read more