As a developer there has to be a balance between writing new code and reinventing the wheel. There are a lot of companies writing components for the .Net environment, all trying to grab your attention, […]
Paul Usher
simplify the complex
What’s in your toolbox?
As a developer constantly striving to improve my skills and my efficiency, I am always interested to see what tools other people are using and why. Just spend 10 minutes watching another developer work on […]
Sandboxing – writing outside the box
Ok, Apple announced that “as of March, 2012 all apps submitted to the Mac App Store must implement sandboxing”, and since we were preparing the release of our new Set Professional desk top app, it […]
Ambiguous errors: NSInternalInconsistencyException mutating method
Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘*** -[NSCFArray replaceObjectAtIndex:withObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object’ Ok, so what does it actually mean and why am I getting this on a NSMutableArray…? The error […]
review: Dropbox – the bomb
I have been using Dropbox for a while now, just the cool little icon reminding me of service that keeps things ticking in the background, UNTIL today. During a coding session in xCode I found […]
review: TaskPaper
I am always on the lookout for applications that can help me streamline the daily tasks I need to perform. In particular is list management. The problem with switching to a new list management tool […]
Ambiguous errors: oledbconnection DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED
A client rang to say they are having problems with a small program I wrote. It has worked for a few months – no problem, then out of the blue they started receiving an error […]
The pList Dilemma – xCode Gotcha
Why does the following code return no objects in the array. NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”stations” ofType:@”plist”]; NSMutableArray* anns = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path]; Here is a screen shot from within Xcode at the pList […]
SIGABRT – unrecognized selector sent to instance
I received an SOS from a mate asking to see why his $1,000,000 app making idea was crashing at the first hurdle. Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[MyAnnotation objectForKey:]: unrecognized selector sent […]
Blogs for software suggestions
During a meeting today with @AdamCogan (www.adamcogan.com | www.ssw.com.au) we discussed the idea of using a blog to post about software enhancements. So lets run with it. Feel free to vote or comment on ideas […]