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Inspecting NSCoder Files

One of the very handy features in Cocoa is NSCoder, it allows you to easily write your objects to a file. Your objects need to know how to encode and decode themselves with an NSCoder and that’s it.…

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Monster Localization

CuteClips 3 has been out since last May now and I’ve still had one big thing to add: Localization. Even though I’ve had the localized Nibs and strings files around, I didn’t find time yet to release a localized version. The long know problem was again that features were added I n…

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Downtime

Today all our services briksoftware.com, snapplr.com, pdfkey.com have been down for about 10 minutes. Some however may have had problems for much longer time, as we changed our IP address and DNS takes some time to propagate.…

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Snapplr 1.0

We are extremely excited today. Snapplrhttp://snapplr.com finally reached 1.0! After much coding, improving, and digging around Mac OS X internals we can finally share this great utility with you.…

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Snapplr progress

This year I’ve been on a trip to Rome during new year. I’ve visited Michele and we spent pretty much most of the time coding on Snapplr. After one week of rewriting the screenshot selection from scratch, we had a new beta of Snapplrhttp://www.snapplr.com available. We’re proud to…

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The Debugger has exited with status 1.

Yesterday I encountered a very strange bug/feature in Xcode. I just couldn’t run any application in Release configuration anymore. I always got “The Debugger has exited with status 1.” in the run-log. In debug configuration they worked, without Xcode they worked, in gdb they work…

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Xcode Refactorings

I just created yet another class with some instance variables and so missed the functionality of creating accessor methods for these instvars automatically. As I never really looked into the Refactorings of Xcode 3 I didn’t notice that they provide an encapsulation refactoring. U…

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PSIG

I think I’ll be in Chicago tomorrow evening. I’d really love to join in for PSIG, but I don’t have any idea on how to get there best, can anyone tell me how to get there? I’ll arrive in Chicago at 5pm and I’ll stay in Downtown near Harrison-Station at the Grand Park. I guess I ca…

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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?…

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