Some time ago I have read this short article from O’Reilly: Buy where you shop. It points out few important aspects of on-line selling and situation of the people who are in the business. I think there is an analogy here, when it comes to buying digital content on-line. At the moment you have loots […]
Certificate identity ‘Here comes your identity’ appears more than once in the keychain. The codesign tool requires there only be one. This bug made me spent like an hour in front of XCode and Apple Developer portal. In my case, the solution was to remove any conflicting certificates that have the same name. Basically, open […]
You can find info related to Humble Bundle 6 here: https://www.humblebundle.com. There are few really, really cool games. My favorites are: Rochard (I have bought it some time ago right from developers and this one is really a fun), Torchligh – I think I don’t have to explain anything. If you don’t have Torchlight yet, […]
If you are getting following error: ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[NSConcreteData dataUsingEncoding:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance while using NSData+Base64 category, make sure that object you are passing to + (NSData *)dataFromBase64String:(NSString *)aString is actually of type NSString *.
There is a really, really nice description of this topic in this book: Amazon (in Books): Programming iOS 5: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Development Look at the section: 4.3. Passing Data From One Screen to Another. You can find there concept of UIStoryboardSegue described quite simply. Worth checking.
If you develop iOS based apps you will come to this issue sooner or later. shell> svn add Default\@2x.png svn: warning: ‘Default’ not found In order to avoid this issue simply add empty revision version followed just after additional “@”. shell> svn add Default\@2x.png@ This is not clearly stated in manual, but you can pass […]
Recently, I found interesting notice regarding Packt Publishing – 1000 IT titles. If you dig in, and read carefully, you can find out that Pack is offering free gifts in exchange for registering at Packt Publishing (free of charge!). If you’d like to check this out, just go and visit this page. Note! According to […]
“I am determined to make video games and I make video games – because I can” – read more about the source of the quote here.
NetCAT 7.3 just started. If you want to participate, make sure not to miss registration page: http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetCATParticipants If you are not aware of NetCAT yet, take a look here to become familiar with the idea: http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetCAT
I really like new layout of favorites in Safari Books Online. It is now much easier to navigate between the lists! And the layout itself is much easier to read. Everything is grouped, as before, into lists. You can, of course, share your list if you like.
I have uploaded Vintage VI to iTunes as well. You can watch it here: http://itunes.apple.com/pl/podcast/vintage-vi/id414863928?i=120278070 Note: This is strange, however, playing content straight from the iTunes Store produces ugly error To get the content, and watch it, simply subscribe to the podcast.
Summary: Grab it, read it, learn it Basically, if you have never ever used regular expressions before, this book is for you. It will guide you through the most basic and most common patterns used within regular expressions world. There are lots of examples and lots of tools presented inside the book. It goes like […]
I just uploaded my new experimental tutorial. It features one of the most well known rag time by Scott Joplin. You can find it here: http://youtu.be/lqT_4H8qwxc. This is not quite typical tutorial session for vi beginners. I was simply experimenting with some apps.
Here it goes, simple file size sorting in OS X and Linux (in kilobytes). Linux: du -s -k * | sort -n -k1,1 -t” ” In both OS X and Linux you can alternatively use “-m” for megabytes, and “-g” for gigabytes. In Linux you can additionally fine grain to bytes using “-b”. If you […]
Summary: Small issues make it difficult for newcomers When you read the book, you can definitelly tell that authors have experience when it comes to different flavors of the regular expressions. When you go over the different aspects of regular expressions you can track the differences between the standards thanks to clear specification what is […]
Summary: Prior experience is required This book is addressed to programmers who are supposed to get better understainding of how to use SQL and SQLite in Android applications. You will read few interesting things here, however, if you are not aware of SQLite, if you have never developed Android applications, and you have never worked […]
Recently I have downloaded most recent LyX release. I have some LyX files (e.g. Masther’s Thesis) that are more than 10 years old. To my surprise I was able to open them, compile and produce PDF output out of the box, without any issues! Unfortunately, I had no luck with 10 years old Word documents. […]
Recently, I was searching through some old materials I have produced in past. At some point, I have found my first Java application ever. It was dated back in February 2001 – original indentation preserved.
I have installed TextMate2 as soon as it became available. At first, it didn’t amassed me. It was simply lying around in Applications directory waiting for the better times. For a last few days, however, I started to use it more intensively, and … I am pretty happy with it. In fact, I am starting […]
Today, I have an opportunity to present contest organized by Packt Publishing. You can win a fresh paperback copy (details below) copy of the “Android Database Programming” by Jason Wei. Carry on to get details. Win Free e-Copies of Android Database Programming book Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with […]