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July 21, 2005
Infuriating Cocoa bugs
Every now and again I come up against an infuriating Cocoa bug. Today I've just spent a few hours struggling against one in particular.
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Posted by wincent at 8:38 AM
July 19, 2005
Coding notes: optimization and plug-ins
Donald Knuth famously said "premature optimization is the root of all evil".
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Posted by wincent at 4:06 PM
July 15, 2005
Gefen DVI DL Switcher KVM recommendation
I just got hold of a Gefen DVI DL Switcher KVM today and wanted to post a recommendation. Gefen definitely don't make the cheapest KVMs out there but they could well make the best ones.
Posted by wincent at 9:33 PM
July 14, 2005
Category bonanza
I just noticed that I'm extending nearly 30 Cocoa classes using categories in the WOBase framework alone.
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Posted by wincent at 10:16 PM
The best way to write accessors
As you learn Objective-C you'll come across lots of advice about how, when, why to write accessor methods and you'll see many different ways of writing them.
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Posted by wincent at 11:01 AM
July 13, 2005
Whittling away the controller
Since my post the other day about my monstrously large main controller class I've been working hard on adding new features to Synergy Advance. But working on a large body of code is like moulding pottery from clay: even as you go along adding new bits you continue to work with the already-existing clay, moulding it, reforming it, smoothing it and so on.
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Posted by wincent at 1:45 PM
July 10, 2005
Nice moments
I just had one of those nice moments where you write some code and you know straight away that you've done the right thing. These moments usually follow a period of doubt, then something slips into place and you realize that you've found the correct solution. In this case I was writing an Objective-C wrapper for some sysctl(3) stuff.
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Posted by wincent at 11:59 PM
Synergy Advance source code
I have decided to release lines 4452 to 4455 (inclusive) of the file, "WOSynergyAdvanceController.m", part of the source code for Synergy Advance, into the public domain.... But I post it here for three reasons: (1) It's Sunday and I'm a little bored; (2) Because I love short methods (they're much easier to maintain); and (3) Because it's one hell of a long source file.
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Posted by wincent at 10:11 AM
July 6, 2005
Synergy Advance framework
From the very beginning I've wanted Synergy Advance to be as modular as possible to maximize code reuse and make it easily extensible. The first thing I started by doing was splitting off code into reusable frameworks.
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Posted by wincent at 5:02 PM
July 5, 2005
Worst interface ever
The Worst. Interface. Ever.
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Posted by wincent at 11:12 AM
July 3, 2005
Open source licensing
There is a lot of misinformation on the net about the different types of open source licenses so I just wanted to offer some clarification.
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Posted by wincent at 7:32 AM
