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
I find it odd that I haven’t seen or heard a single comment about the latest model iMac’s SD card slot being on the back, buried amongst the inaccessible ports. People complained quite vocally about it being merely on the side.
In a word: clusterfuck. I really enjoyed Modern Warfare. It’s one of my favourite FPS’s of all time. It was fun, challenging, had an interesting storyline… it was “realistic” but not to the point of losing the whole point of the game – to be a game, a form of entertainment. Alas, Black Ops is… Read more
Marisa & I had booked, nearly two months ago, a campsite in Yosemite for this weekend. We’d been looking forward to it greatly. And then this Hantavirus “outbreak” is announced, and gets worse over the weekend – more deaths, more confirmed cases, more suspect areas of the park – and, well shit. After much consternation,… 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