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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 if [...]
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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 should 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 have [...]
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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 line [...]

