Creating a Git project for XCode/Cocoa apps

You can always count on somebody to have figured things out before you.. Chrisopher Roach's blog has a nice quick setup guide to get your xcode project in a git repo (gitignores, attributes and basic git push capability).

Dead Man movie download Whenever I setup a new Xcode project, the first thing I do is initialize it as a Git repository and add some configuration to the project that will make using Git with Xcode a bit less messy.

[From christopherroach.com ]

And of course debate has already started on the merits of treating certain things as binary to avoid merging nightmares. <sarcasm>Don't you love XML syntaxes?</sarcasm>

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Some of my thoughts on Git

Git is the version control system I am using now. I find it useful for my needs in particular since I do at least a part of my work on locations that don't have network access. Git uses a federated model - you have all the repository history, and you can commit even while you're not connected.

If this sounds attractive to you, read on to see how you can use git as the sandbox for your svn repository and to learn about the features of git.

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Ruby, Folder actions and full automation

I routinely scan my documents as PDFs so I can keep them in a virtual filing cabinet (you know, the whole "paperless office" thing). I use my HP all-in-one software running on a Windows VM inside a Mac (sorry, but the Mac scanning software on HP is complete garbage in my opinion).

What bothered me about this was that all the files scanned always end up named "scan12345.pdf". Because of the way I file, I like having my things as "year/company/year-monty-date.pdf" instead.

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

BernieCode » How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express

Among the things we all have to do (even those of us with Macs) is debug Javascript for Internet Explorer. The JS Engine is quirky and dumb, and other than memory management and garbage collection, they have done hardly anything to the annoyances of their particular implementation of the language. But they are the big gorilla, so sites have to run on it. I was using the Microsoft Script Debugger but apparently there is a way to use Microsoft Visual Web Developer express for the same purpose, provided you do the workaround Bernie outlines on his site.

Microsoft have released an excellent free edition of Visual Studio for web development called Visual Web Developer, but among the features reserved for the professional edition is the ability to connect to a process. Hence when you get a JavaScript error in a web page, VWD won’t appear in the list of possible debuggers.

[From BernieCode » How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express]

I just wish I didn't need 1.7Gb of Hard Drive Space just to run a debugger. Darn white elephant.

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Note taking applications: Evernote vs Journler


I stopped doing GTD. And I totally shouldn't have.

I have determined that the problem was the lack of an "always there" todo list and note taking device. I write too slowly and am not organized enough to use my moleskine (never mind that I also tend to forget it), and my lifestyle is too mobile to just use a laptop.

I tried iGTD and Omnifocus. Ominfocus was too heavy on the resources, though by now I should probably try it again (maybe when they come up with an iPhone rich client). I also used Circus Ponies' Notebook, which was pretty nice but didn't do spotlight with enough granularity. Then I tried Journler (for journaling, never used it for GTD) and now I'm trying out Evernote. So how does Evernote compare?

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

ZDNet: How to avoid receiving a $830.20 iPhone bill (International Traveling)

ZDNet published an article on How to avoid receiving an $837.20 iPhone bill which is very much worth reading. Here are some of my Strategies when traveling internationally with an iPhone

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Get Something done *every day*

"Get stuff done every day. If the task is too large, break it down and explain what you're doing. But get something done every day.

It's too easy for us to say "I'm still working on associating the widgets to the watzits". But with this level of information the customer only hears " - still - ".

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Some useful OSX Applications

Besides the iLife Suite, here are some applications I've found useful lately. Here they are. I will update this in the next few days.

Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Twitter

I am now using Twitter again. I am hackerdude, of course. Come join the fun!

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame

Software Libre: ¿Rebeldía Estéril of Física Cuántica?

En Consumer.es, Alexey Pazhitnov (creador de Tetris) dice que El software libre sólo es una rebeldía estéril, y se pone a opinar acerca de capitalismo versus socialismo.

Creo que reducir esto a "socialismo/capitalismo" es una reacción que sobresimplifica un asunto que es por naturaleza complejo, tomando prestados temas de política para crear miedo, con la idea probablemente de proteger su mercado (como hacer pipí en los árboles si eres canino), y demuestra un problema de entendimiento tanto de los sistemas de libre mercado como de los sistemas socialistas. Me explico:

technorati tags:



Read the rest of this entry »

Share this
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • Slashdot
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Meneame