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Following open source projects - Fri, 07/03/2009 - 13:41

I follow a fair number of open source projects. Most of them are based on SVN, a few on Git, a couple on Mercurial, and only one or two on CVS. There is, unfortunately, no equivalent to the Tortoise system for Mac (TortoiseSVN, TortoiseCVS, TortoiseGit, TortoiseHg, etc). The best we have is the wonderful Versions application, although that only supports Subversion repositories.

Another iSnip Update - Sat, 05/23/2009 - 16:05

iSnip is progressing slowly. I've only been able to work on it off and on during the evenings ever since I started working at Mozy earlier this month. However, I've been making good progress.

Adding UINavigation/UITableView controllers into a UITabBarController - Wed, 05/13/2009 - 08:13

I don't get why this is a big question, but I've seen it come up about 5 times in the past week, so I thought I'd offer my insights on the topic.

Before beginning, however, I will put out my one caveat that is probably the source of almost all the frustration I've been reading about: For something like this, it is vitally important that you DO NOT use Interface Builder.

iSnip Update - Tue, 05/05/2009 - 21:17

I started a new job this week, but I've still been making time to work on iSnip. The biggest breakthrough has been discovering how to recover the rich text data I retrieve from the clipboard and displaying it as rich text. A screenshot is attached that gives an example.

Dave

iSnip Update - Tue, 04/28/2009 - 18:33

iSnip is progressing nicely. I've got drag and drop working, so you can now drag in text from other applications, and also drag snippets around from folder to folder. Believe me when I say that that was not the easiest thing to set up. :)

However, for your ocular enjoyment, I've attached a screenshot as of about 5 minutes ago.

Dave

Mactracker for iPhone - Thu, 04/23/2009 - 14:12

Last December, I contacted Ian Page and we discussed the future of Mactracker as an iPhone app. We soon began writing it. With our combined work and academic schedules, progress was slow, but we pretty much finished everything up towards the end of March. It's been a really awesome experience working with Ian; he's a great guy. I'm really glad I've had the opportunity to work on it. We've had to solve some really interesting problems. Even now, Ian's struggling with trademark issues to get actual machine images in the app.

iSnip progress - Thu, 04/16/2009 - 13:58

After spending this morning at work, I came home after lunch and decided to forego studying for finals and work on iSnip instead. Here's what I've gotten done today:

Better drag and drop architecture
Folders can now be renamed from within the sidebar
Folders that are reordered via drag and drop now remember their relative positions
Snippets belonging to the selected folder now show up in the list
Rudimentary snippet history is working

Dave

Another iSnip Update - Wed, 04/15/2009 - 20:57

I admit, it's been a long time since I've done anything with iSnip and it's been languishing on the sidelines.

However, since yesterday was the last day of classes and today I had nothing to do all day (a wonderful thought, by the way), I decided to bust out the iSnip.xcodeproj file I have and take another swing at it.

Incrementing Build Numbers in Xcode - Wed, 04/15/2009 - 12:01

I admit, I'm a sucker for numbers. When I release a project, it'd be kind of cool to know how many times I've built it. With that in mind, and with a good deal of help from my friend Quinn and a couple of online tutorials, I was able to come up with a neat little script that can do just that.

Aspect Oriented Programming in Objective-C - Mon, 04/13/2009 - 15:22

Recently in a CS class of mine, we briefly discussed Aspect Oriented Programming. The idea intrigued me, and knowing some of the capabilities of the Objective-C runtime, I decided to play around with it and see what I could do.