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Call TextMate from command line

andy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:15:04 +0000

A really neat feature of TextMate is the ability to call it from the command line and pass a directory or file as the object to open. Works great.

For this to work, you need to run a quick one-liner on the command line:

sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/local/bin/mate

Once done, you can call mate and pass it any object you want to open, such as:

$ mate my_rails_app

and it opens the entire directory as if it were a TextMate project.

Lots more detail available here: http://manual.macromates.com/en/using_textmate_from_terminal.html

How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder

andy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:16:18 +0000

This was taken from http://fplanque.com/dev/mac/os-x-sparsebundle-shows-up-as-regular-folder

What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon?

Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that make up the bundle.

I’ve forgotten how to fix the issue, you can at least mount the contents of the bundle by typing this is the terminal: "/path/to/bundle/name_of_bundle.sparsebundle/"

Then you’ll have your virtual drive mounted on teh desktop, and if need be you can just copy them to a new sparsebundle.

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 Bluetooth tethering results: Less than 1/3 the speed of USB

andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:22:32 +0000

So, it’s rather slower – 96kbps.

To test it, i tried the ThinkBroadband speed tester, (that i successfully used to test USB tethering), but it failed to complete the test.

I then tried the Broadband speed tester site and got the above results, as well as a 74kbps upload speed.

When (if!) i find time, i’ll go digging and find out if there’s an obvious reason for this – it’s clearly shouldn’t be bottlenecked by the performance of BlueTooth, as it should run up to 3 Mbit/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth)

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 + iTunes 8.2 Pre-release = USB Tethering Active Again :)

andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:36 +0000

Yep, USB tethering died in Betas 2 and 3, but with iTunes 8.2 Pre-release and Beta 4, all is working again and it feels wonderfully fast. Well, it’s only running at 336.58 Kbps, but it feels great! As a note, i think the fix was actually iTunes rather than iPhone Beta 4.

Lovely

Now to test the Bluetooth speeds

Important iPhone Push Notification consideration

andy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:32 +0000

A point worth noting by all iPhone developers considering the exciting opportunities of cloud-side iPhone app notifications – how much will it cost you to provide this service?

An important point to consider.

iPhone 3.0 beta 2 tethering how to

andy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:24:31 +0000

In iPhone 3.0 beta 1, tethering didn’t work. In beta 2, it does and it’s really simple to achieve. It does require a quick mod to your iPhone. Here’s what you have to do:

1. Download the o2_uk.ipcc carrier details file. Please note that this is the UK ipcc file. If you’re not on O2 in the UK, search google for your suitable ipcc file.
2. Connect iPhone to PC / Mac and select to restore with the option to select a custom restore package (hold down option on Mac before selecting restore)
3. Select the ipcc file as the restore package. The change of details on the phone takes only a few seconds and doesn’t require an iPhone reboot
4. Go into iPhone Settings app > General > Network > Internet Tethering and enable.
5. Connect iPhone to PC / Mac over USB or bluetooth
6. The PC / Mac will do the rest
7. Done!

Works great (i’m posting via tethering now)

Geeky note for reference: How to reset MacBook Pro PRAM

andy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:13:42 +0000

Power down
Press power on button
Immediately press “alt + cmd + p + r”
Await until 2nd chime
Release keys
Allow to boot as normal

iPhone development: Stage 1: Familiarise self with Objective C

andy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:07:15 +0000

Thanks apple for this primer:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/docs/objectivecprimer.action;jsessionid=EBE50C6510FD05380290B42E0C4E8EC6.worker10

I’ll add comments as i get through this primer.

iCode iPhone Programming Blog

andy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:48:13 +0000

http://icodeblog.com/

Neat!

Sproutcore – 1st impressions

andy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:35:33 +0000

Today i had a short play with Sproutcore (the “Cocoa for the Web” JS framework used by and optimized by Apple for me.com) for the first time. I was a little surprised with what i found.

The Great

The development tools are in Ruby using the merb framework
The development tools adopt a Rails like MVC architectural pattern, with commands like

sc-gen model example/contact
sc-gen controller example/detail
sc-gen view example/card

The development tools include build tools that prepare all JS, HTML and CSS ready to be distributed.
```
sc-build
```

The development tools have a bunch of ruby (rails-style) helpers

<%= button_view :my_button, :label => 'Here is a functioning button!' %>

The not so great

It doesn’t work with the latest version of Merb (0.9.9 RC1) and doesn’t appear happy even having it around (even if 0.9.4 is installed, if seems to force a removal of 0.9.9 in order to work) – Patch submitted, but only recently.

I’ll keep playing and posting what i find, plus an app or 2 as i create them.

Check out these links for more info: