I am new to git and shamefully incompetent with the Terminal. However, I am working on it.
One of the tools I came across since I began using git is DTerm. It is essentially a free floating terminal that you bring up with a keystroke.
The killer feature (for me) is once you invoke it with [...]
This is just something I picked up over the weekend to interface with Terminal.app via AppleScript:
NSString *s = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"cd %@\"", folderPath];
NSAppleScript *as = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: s];
[as executeAndReturnError:nil];
The intent is pretty easy to pick up (Also, please feel free to handle the error). The question and answer can [...]
The runtime has been a bit of a mystery to me.
To be sure, I have yet to explore some of the more dynamic aspects of Objective-C/Cocoa in my applications.
In fact, as many know, you can move along quite happily though your Cocoa/iPhone programming without directly daling with it. Others might not realize what’s “under [...]
The buttons in the iPhone SDK suck. There, I said it.
Almost everything on the iPhone round, glossy and “3Dish”.
Except the standard RoundRect buttons included in UIKit.
Of course we can go off and use one of many drawing apps to crank out some nice glossy buttons, but there a few problems with this approach.
First, you [...]
I just moved back to Philadelphia and needed to get some internet. I wanted FIOS, but unfortunately it isn’t yet available in my neighborhood (Comcast just lost the fight to keep FIOS out of Philadelphia). Until then, I settled on Comcast.
The tech arrived promptly on last Monday morning. He was a new guy, but [...]
It’s been a long time and TFJL has been neglected. No more!
The Mrs. and I are finally settled down in a quite nook of Bella Vista in Philly.
Of course life doesn’t begin anew until internet is connected which, with a few hitches, was completed on Monday.
Now to think of something to complain about…
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