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Zombie File Found
In users/library there is a folder with the name of my application that contains appname.storedata I have no idea why it’s there, and why it and *only* it is there, but that was the file that created the problem. However, … Continue reading
How to make people give up programming
In which Apple breaks Core Data and leaves me with an invisible, undeletable data store that is messing up development and which cost me several hours of my life. Which I want back. Continue reading
Xcode 4 samples
I found Apple’s samples, but not in a place I would have looked for them. Continue reading
Sticky landing
Moving to Xcode 4 Continue reading
The Book Not Reviewed
Marcus S. Zarra, Core Data I’m not reviewing it for three reasons: a), right now I can’t follow the examples very far because they are OS X.5 based, b), many of the items the book talks about are beyond the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture of Programming, Teaching Programming
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NSTextView and Core Data: why do we even ask?
Last year, when I first discovered CoreData, I experimented a little, but failed at binding an NSTextView to Core Data. Set Core Data Value[1827] *** NSRunLoop ignoring exception ‘Cannot create NSData from object newTag of class NSCFString’ that raised during … Continue reading
Posted in Culture of Programming
Tagged Core Data, hidden assumptions, NSTextView, rantage
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Tutorials: UR doing it right
Review of an article about using multiple nibs which is extremely well thought out. Continue reading
Posted in Culture of Programming, Resources, Teaching Programming, Tutorials
Tagged Bravo!, hidden assumptions
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Resource: Defensive Programming
Review of an article about the philosophy of error handling (http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-10-09-defensive-programming.html) Continue reading
Posted in Culture of Programming, Error Handling, Resources
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The peril of hidden assumptions
About the problem with hidden assumptions (‘everybody does things in this way’ ‘everybody knows which operating system I’m talking about’) and ways of avoiding them Continue reading
Posted in Culture of Programming, Teaching Programming
Tagged accessibility, hidden assumptions
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