I’ve been running Macintosh machines for quite some time as my primary development environment. Recently I’ve been having to spend a lot of my time running Windows for my work and I’m finding it a lot less painful than I thought I would. Windows 10 has vastly improved over Windows 8 (although the bar was […]
Category Archives: Mac OS X
Apps
I’ve been making some apps recently. Â One for the new Windows 8 modern UI and one for iOS using swift. Â One was a joy to code, the other was not 😉 Swift is an interesting language and I look forward to writing more code in it. Â C# is also a nice language, however writing code […]
Drobo Pro/FS
After working through it a bit more it appears that the problem is actually in the Drobo Dashboard. Â For some reason it is refusing to show the “Drobo ProFS”. Â I loaded up the 1.8.4 version of the Drobo Dashboard and it sees the unit just fine but doesn’t allow much to be configured. Â Maybe I […]
Titanium Appcelerator == yuck
After spending considerable time recently working on a fairly simple iOS app using Titanium Appcelerator I have come to the conclusion that I am never going to use it again if I can avoid it. Â The app size isn’t too much of a problem, but the fact that even this simple app crashes on startup […]
VMWare or Parallels?
Since Parallels released the new version of their Mac virtualization software recently and it reportedly works under OS X Yosemite (10.10), I decided to give it a go. Â Converting my Linux VMs was a breeze, but converting my Windows 7 VM wasn’t as much fun. Â The Windows VM converted perfectly, Windows itself on the other […]
Swift Parser Generation
I’ve been fascinated by the Scala language since I first saw it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to use Scala in a couple of projects. One of the parts of the Scala standard library I really like is the parser combinator stuff. Â I’ve been spending a bit of time recently playing with some […]
The first stage of my port of pegged to Swift is successful :)
I have managed to get the Objective-C version of pegged to spit out a parser using Swift rather than Objective-C 🙂 It’s getting late, so I really should get some sleep. I finally figured out what was causing the compiler to crash. Â The following code will crash the Swift compiler unless the inout parameter to […]
Swift compiler is crashing for me :(
I’ve been spending a bit of time having a play with Apple’s Swift. Â So far I find the language to be interesting. It seems to be missing a few things. Â Working with strings is a real pain 🙁 Â Hopefully this will be fixed in later versions of the language/compiler. I’m also hitting many problems with […]
Apples Swift Langauge
I’ve been playing with the new language from Apple called Swift. Â It looks like it might be interesting, especially if they open it up so it can be used on other platforms. I’ve whipped up a little test app that includes a nicer way to work with NSTimer objects from Swift as the usual way […]
Objective-C to Java and back again via JNI and Unix pipes
I’ve been working on a piece of software for some time now that is almost ready for a public release. Â For part of it I needed to connect to various databases, some of which are only accessible via JDBC. Â My problem is that my app is written in Objective-C. Â For the first version of my […]