XCode 2.3 is out, so why not spend a nice May evening reading some Dev Tools release notes? There are some excited posts about Dedicated Network Builds from people who work at Apple, but not having a cluster of build machines myself, I’m not so worked up. (Unless sourceforge gets on that for their build [...]
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I came back from a weekend camping trip to find that my post about WebMail.app got a lot of attention: TUAW, Hawk Wings, and MacUser, for starters. Some people got what I was trying to do with it, and some didn’t. The idea got passed around a bit, so a few commenters probably didn’t read [...]
Webmail is really a separate application. When I’m visiting GMail, I’m checking mail, not browsing the web. So what’s so bad about using a browser for this? Minor Gripes If I keep a browser window running with GMail, now clicking on the Safari dock icon just brings that sucker up instead of creating a new [...]
Coverity, the company formed by the people behind the Stanford MC Checker, has started posting regular reports from their analysis tools on prominent open-source projects at scan.coverity.com. I found out about this through an email from the Coverity CTO on the GCC mailing list, and it seems to have been received with some moderate enthusiasm. [...]
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A quick thought: why not wrap NSUndoManager to support adding scriptable hooks to almost any user action? Surely someone can think of a good scheme to let an application programmer support really thorough scriptability without tons of extra work… I thought of this because I’d like a way to mark a To-do item for an [...]
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In a recent largescale systems seminar*, we had Bart Miller from Wisconsin talk about some of the upcoming work on DynInst. DynInst is an API for runtime code patching, which lets you do things like attach to a running program and insert your own code around every network call, or replace procedures with your own [...]
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There are a couple minor improvements in the pipeline, but I wanted to get a universal binary version of the I-Search plugin out before you noticed that it wasn’t universal already. It’s the same as the last version, just twice as fat. Get it here. Next up for this project is to move it to [...]
Quick note – I tried to build a universal binary version of Blapp because I thought it’d be simple, but I forgot it uses a library that is built with autoconf, and apple’s basic transition instructions for autoconf projects didn’t fly in 2 minutes, so I gave up for now.
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I’ve decided to switch over to MarsEdit, and as a result I will now most likely stop maintaining Blapp, my simple OS X blosxom weblog editor. It’s been a lot of fun through seven versions, starting with my original post about it, to Rael Dornfest (the author of blosxom) picking it up and the v2 [...]
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I was digging around the gdb source and found that there’s a plugin in there that supports macsbug style screens and commands from within gdb. If you have the XCode Tools installed, take a look at the Readme on your own (OS X) system at the file /usr/libexec/gdb/plugins/MacsBug/Readme.html To invoke it, type this at the [...]
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