Monthly Archives: August 2010

Scientist detects powerful jet from supernova. . .

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

and decides to announce it as a Doctor Who fanfic rather than a boring paper (via Metafilter): Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral

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Playing with photoshop.

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

It’s all well and good making apps that work but you realise how dull they look. That’s the key difference between what I have right now and existing apps in the store. Look and Feel. To fix that we need … Continue reading →

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A summary of the day.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Good day.  Silly exc_bad_access bug resolved.  A macro in gdb to print the retainCount (mentioned in a previously posted link) is indeed very handy.  Spamming this through the code was also useful: NSLog(@”%@ <nameoffunction>”,self);   <— (or with another %@ … Continue reading →

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I squished a bug.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Two days chasing down a bug and the first thing to enter my mind is “I squished a bug”. Yeah I own the album and the song was stuck in my head. So…… “I Squished a Bug” an ode to … Continue reading →

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Yakuza 3 played by real Yakuza!

Posted on August 10, 2010 by diziet

This is awesome, an american reporter (I think) who worked in Japan for years covering the tokyo underground managed to persuade 3 real Yakuza to play Sega’s awesome Yakuza 3. The first 2 were good and the fourth is very … Continue reading →

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Gym diary. Part 1 of X

Posted on August 10, 2010 by diziet

Well today was a first chance for a free personal trainer less session at the new gym. It broke down like this: 2km rowing at 7 in 9 mins~ 20 reps shoulder press at 8 1km jogging at speed 9 … Continue reading →

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A tiny tiny CoreData revelation.

Posted on August 9, 2010 by diziet

Following on from the previous discovery of all the useful debugging features, including the Build & Analyze feature and the Performance Tool stuff, the argument to debug core data has one problem. It doesn’t display your parameters. So change that … Continue reading →

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More Objective-C cocoa gotchas.

Posted on August 8, 2010 by diziet

Firstly… when you’re chopping and changing lots of files in and out (and using the refactoring functions to rename classes by highlighting the name and hitting apple-option-j) you can get linking errors of all sorts afterwards and strange crashes saying … Continue reading →

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CoreData and to-many relationships.

Posted on August 6, 2010 by diziet

I’ve had a problem with a category being able to reference many subjects but a subject only having one category. Kept getting a fault for the relationship. The error looked like this in the debugger: CoreData: annotation: to-many relationship fault … Continue reading →

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I need this for when I’m painting.

Posted on August 5, 2010 by diziet

Perhaps I could get it attached to my future cyborg arm? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/imudeblurring/

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