Things I learned about Xcode today
There are two ways to include files in your project that guarantees compilation. Only one of these ways should be used at a time.
Posted by Orville Bennett on 16 July 2008
Recipe for World Domination
After having a talk with aseigo today I have been lulled out of my ill-deserved slumber. So let's try something and see where this goes...
Plan
Step 1: Collate an actual list of all KDE's dependencies (Techbase).
Step 2: Find out which are actually used for functionality on OS X …
Posted by Orville Bennett on 14 July 2008
Xcode Tips
I like my fonts antialiased, and one thing that has continually bothered me is Xcode's lack of antialiasing in its
code editor. To gain this "feature" I had to go to the Xcode Preferences window, then to the Fonts and Colors section.
Click on the font and either change it to another fixed width font, or increase the size of Monaco to be greater than 10.
For some reason, even if it's set in System Preferences, Monaco at 10 point or lower is not antialiased (except for in
the Terminal, which has its own antialiasing setting).
Posted by Orville Bennett on 13 July 2008
Think Diff
Apple has an interesting little utility which they provide with Xcode called FileMerge. I don't actually know if it merges files as the name implies, but I would assume so. I've been using it to see file diffs here on os x. It seems to be a quick and dirty app, but it's easy to u…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 13 July 2008
And now, for something completely different
Now twitting. No, I didn't mean tweeting.
Posted by Orville Bennett on 1 June 2008
Eureka! The computer's got it!
Today after my amarok bundle crashed (yet again), and I got the DrKonqui dialog which began using up 171% of my cpu making my fans go crazy, I remembered something. It was not always so. I remembered that I used to have to wait for the Apple Crash Reporter (ACR) to generate a bac…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 28 May 2008