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Blocks in Objective-C

There have been quite a lot of news about blocks in C recently. What I wonder however is: will there be a Objective-C block object that wraps such a new C block?…

Spam hell

I think everyone knows Spam to be a big pain because one receives tons of unwanted mails every day. For developers the problems of spam are even worse. It’s a common problem that mails sent to customers don’t get through. Sometimes because there’re some server problems with some …

Schizophrenic plugins

Lately I was driving home and I was thinking a bit about BSInspectors/products/bsinspectors. The inspectors use plugins, but the plugins always come in pairs, which is first: annoying to create, and second: annoying to maintain. I’d really prefer to go for a one plugin per plugin…

Dakar Testing

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Adding Inspectors to Xcode

So last time I blogged/blog/archives/24/ about getting data from the target app into gdb. While I considered this to be the hard part of this project I figured that getting the data from gdb to Xcode is way harder. While I think nothing is impossible, I tried to get things runnin…

improving debugging in OS X

So the first thing i noticed when debugging Applications with Xcode is that there’s no GUI for inspecting objects. i mean, an array has some certain objects and printing all to the console is not very user-friendly, so let’s improve things a bit.…