Tag Archives: Software development

Eradicating a missing dylib dependency in macports

I would’ve put this on the macports wiki because it’s the kind of thing I will probably need again sometime, but since their move to macosforge.org, I can’t modify their wiki. A few weeks ago, a new version of gettext … Continue reading

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Cocoa Bindings

Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster pointed out that the challenge from Chapter 4 of Aaron Hillegas’ book “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X” can be easily solved by using Cocoa Bindings, rather than using the more typical target/action approach. When … Continue reading

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Problems with Cocoa Core Data ‘Core Recipes’ Example

I’m working on a couple of applications using Cocoa and Core Data. I’m familiar enough with the KVO, KVC, and things like NSArrayController to write the app without Core Data, but it’s such a cool tool and I figured the … Continue reading

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Macports is trickier than it should be

macports, formerly Darwinports, looked to be a good, easy way to install and maintain a bunch of unix-based libraries and applications. After using it for a while, I see it has either design flaw or a documentation flaw. My use … Continue reading

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Building and Testing Darwin Calendar Server

Since I first checked this out on Tuesday, they’ve updated a couple of configuration files and, more importantly, added a README so I know how to build it. It’s also nice to see at least one or two people have … Continue reading

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