I just wanted to talk a bit about how I use to manage the projects I’m working on. I abuse Midnight Inboxhttp://www.midnightbeep.com/ for my project management. It may not be created for this task, but I’ve never really understood the whole GTD idea; maybe I should read the book,…
Using fonts in a drawing method should be a pretty common thing. I use that in CuteClips for rendering the text of each clip. However, one should not believe that NSFont fontNamed:NSString\aFontName is sort of appropriate for using it there. This method is hell slow. If you’re go…
One of the main debugging techniques in Mac OS X is logging using NSLog. It’s quite simple and easy to log some useful information with it, but it’s even more simple to print a real huge amount of data to the console that is not really interesting and helpful. When it comes to de…
Recently I wanted to automatically center a NSView inside a window. But the buttons inside this view were displayed pretty strange: !/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/nsview-with-strange-buttons.png…
So when it comes to using a Hex editor, my favorite choice has always been HexEdithttp://hexedit.sourceforge.net/. It’s fast, works great, but has some flaws here and there. But anyway, I love this editor by heart. Now on my MacBook Pro I wanted to use a universal binary of that …
Creating templates for Xcode projects is not an everyday duty of developers. It’s quite tricky but can be really powerful. It is even possible to customize nib files!…