Just ran across this old post by Daniel Pasco, which showed again up in NetNewsWire presumably because of some RSS reboot on their end. Anyway, it reminded me of dealing with 3rd party developers – mostly indirectly, through Developer Relations – and the trials it involved. I particularly like the captioned picture of Mike. Nice.… Read more
Ben_hawk asked how to do this on Stackoverflow, and I was both curious how to do it myself. Turns out it’s not too tricky – see my answer in the same post. A big reason for doing this even early in development, prior to distributing builds to anyone else, is that it makes it much… Read more
It appears that the standard behaviour for an NSView (NSResponder in general?) is for it to “hold onto” pressed keys. That is, if a key is held down the view will keep getting keyDown: events until the key is lifted, no matter what else happens. So it can lose focus or the app loses frontmost… Read more
Ugh… SceneKit is both promising and frustrating. It appears to be a very stereotypical case of “version 1” syndrome – nice idea, flaky implementation and very skimpy documentation. So amongst the many strange, undocumented foibles it has, one in particular is quite egregious. When you add an SCNNode to your SCNView-rendered scene, containing an SCNCamera, the… Read more
Hehe… it’s kind of fun to be reading an article and see an error message you wrote. (or at least think I wrote; I honestly can’t remember now, but it feels like one of mine) ‘Purge’ command not working in OS X 10.8.1 | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. It’s also laughable that the authors of… Read more
Only a few pages into the iOS Security document released by Apple today, and already there’s a notable error. It states: Apps can’t share data directly with each other; sharing can be implemented only by both the receiving and sending apps using custom URL schemes, or through shared keychain access groups. False, at least partially.… Read more
I’ve wanted to try out a few little projects based around llvm/clang for a while now. I grabbed the sources from svn last week, and have been perusing them, and their documentation, randomly. Today I caught wind of the supposed support for Xcode (in the form of Xcode project files) via CMake. “Awesome!”, I thought,… Read more