Archive for the 'Xcode' Category

Best. Template. Ever.

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a long, long time, is set up some custom project templates in Xcode. The problem is, it doesn’t really take that long to tweak all the little things in a new project, so when I’m in the mood to start something new, I usually just go through all […]

The Case of the Missing Check

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Things are getting ever-nearer with FlexTime, but as is the case with every project of relative complexity, the number of niggling details expands in proportion to the number of days of development ostensibly remaining. Today I spent a lot longer than I wish I had working on a confounding bug report with my NSToolbar implementation: […]

Elastic Tabs

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Nick Gravgaard has come up with a pretty simple solution to the “tabs vs. spaces” problem. He proposes a system for the elastic interpretation of tabs (via Joel) by text editors. Basically it comes down to treating tabs as indicators of a “new column,” instead of assigning an arbitrary number of spaces to them. The […]

Summer Xcode Tips

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

It’s summer! The sun is out and the sky is (leans right to peek outside), well, sort of greyish. While the world celebrates the changing seasons, we’re all leaning over our keyboards and squinting into the screen, working on our LCD tans. All this warm weather puts me in the mood for Xcode tips! I’ve […]