Archive for the 'Debugging' Category

Lazy Parent Views

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

As a Cocoa programmer, it’s easy to take for granted some of the powerful features of the framework. For instance, autoresizing subviews are a godsend! This is the feature that allows for all of those amazing Interface Builder demos where a few flags are set on the buttons and text views in a window, and […]

Bonus bugs with GDB

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

I guess the last bug report got me in the mood, and since it’s 11:55 here in Somerville, I have time to write up a quickie that I just noticed again, while investigating the other bug I reported tonight! This is an obscure bug, but part of my reason for sharing it in a post […]

Nerd Out with GDB

Friday, June 24th, 2005

WARNING – The content below is of an explicitly nerdy nature and is not suitable for young children, the elderly, pregnant women, or persons with compromised immune systems . . . unless they happen to be Mac OS X hackers! Most of us stick to IDE debugging as much as possible. The visual layout of […]