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2 September 2008

Duhmac err MobileMe

MobileMe sync failed today. I’m sure you’ll want to know why, well the reason was because there was an error. Phew I’m glad we got that one sorted.

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7 November 2007

Garbage collected buffers

Since the original post I realised there is a problem with the approach (thanks to Rick Hog). The garbage collector only collects objects! As such you must not dereference the pointer to the NSMutableData, you must assign it, and, on another line, make the method call to mutableBytes. Now that Cocoa as garbage collection there [...]

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29 October 2007

syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token

This means you have some junk in one of your header file that shouldn’t be there. Tip of the hat to Infurious Blog for pointing out one possible meaning of this error; a missing @end in an Objective-C class header file. Another possibility for this (this took me an hour to find!) is that you [...]

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19 October 2007

gracebat: quickly print a graph from Terminal

Later for that meeting with your supervisor, bashing the computer to hurry up and finished number crunching… the last thing you want to do it open Excel for Mac and make a crap looking graph of your results… enter gracebat… Print a graph from an X Y1 Y2 formatted data file straight from the command [...]

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