Monthly Archives: May 2011

The MD5 checksum bug identified.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by diziet

Happily it’s easy to fix and exactly what I thought it was. When retrieving values from an NSManaged object like so: NSString *foo = recipe.value; or NSString *foo = [recipe valueForKey:@”value”]; If the value is not present you get a … Continue reading →

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Implementing iTunes syncing and a lesson to always run unit tests.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by diziet

So the latest version of my main app is in the app store and…. it has a minor minor bug.  In a rush to eliminate a highly unlikely, in fact to pre-empt, a bug I updated some code to check … Continue reading →

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Roger Hargreaves 76th Birthday – Google Logos

Posted on May 10, 2011 by diziet

Google have celebrated Roger Hargreaves 76th birthday with a whole stack of Mr. Men logos. As far as I can discern from the javascript there are 16 of them, after the cut.

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Recipe for Tunnock Cakes (Marshmallow Teacakes)

Posted on May 9, 2011 by diziet

I cooked this yesterday, just a little to late to make it into the current build of the app. Either way no photos here just the basic ingredients and steps, after entering everything into the app the easiest way to … Continue reading →

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Viewing the MySQL dump import progress

Posted on May 7, 2011 by diziet

A really useful linux shell hint from someone elses blog… stumbled across browsing recommended in google reader: Viewing the MySQL dump import progress. Small linux utility called ‘bar’ which provides a progress bar for any program that can use a … Continue reading →

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