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. One for the new Windows 8 modern UI and one for iOS using swift. 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. 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. For some reason it is refusing to show the “Drobo ProFS”. 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. 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. 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. Converting my Linux VMs was a breeze, but converting my Windows 7 VM wasn’t as much fun. 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. 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. 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. So far I find the language to be interesting. It seems to be missing a few things. Working with strings is a real pain 🙁 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. 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. For part of it I needed to connect to various databases, some of which are only accessible via JDBC. My problem is that my app is written in Objective-C. For the first version of my […]