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zsh-bashing to rescue the NSLog

Doing some tool that uses a NSTask to launch shell-scripts, I ran into a very annoying bug these days. The script were bash scripts and as soon as they were started, all output written by NSLog didn’t go to Xcode’s console, but rather only to console.log. This problem only seems …

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CuteClips3 beta12

Thanks to my trip to last weekend’s CocoaDevHouse in Munich at equinuxhttp://www.equinux.com/ I had some time in the train to work on CuteClips. Lots of bugs were fixed and new features were added. Thanks to Christianhttp://pomfort.com/ I also added the ability to select clips an…

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CocoaDevHouse

Just some hours ago I got to Munich for tomorrow’s CocoaDevHouse. I guess it will be pretty interesting… there’ll be a talk about core data, maybe I finally understand it 😉…

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Setting up your own server

For those of you who may be in our same situation, switching from a managed shared hosting account to your own unmanaged server or VPS, I wrote a little how-to to help you were your resources are scarce and you just cannot use easy tools like cPanel. This isn’t really “for dummie…

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inspecting the Pasteboard: Drop Inspector

Today I thought about a nice and easy way to inspect drag and drop objects or any Pasteboard in general. I ended up creating Drop Inspector, a very simple app that shows you the content of the General Pasteboard if you click on the drop area, or the content of the dragging pasteb…

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Moved

We just got a new home! Moving away from the exceptionally great Shared Hosting at A Small Orangehttp://www.asmallorange.com/, we are now on a VPS still at A Small Orange.…

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Thoughts on application deployment

I remember the early days/years of Mac OS X where Apple supplied the Installer.app and probably every software out there used it to install itself in the system. Then some day i noticed that more and more apps ship as a dmg, which was a big confusing in the beginning. After the y…

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Activating Applications with shortcuts

I’m using Cmd-Tab to cycle through my apps really often…in fact my left hand always sits on the keyboard and Cmd-Tab and Cmd- is probably one of the most shortcuts used here to cycle through apps and windows. I don’t know why I just hit the option key while releasing the Cmd-Tab,…

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