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Backing up Steam with CWRsync
This may or may not be of use to other people, and seeing as I’ve not written a blog post for ages, I thought I’d post it here. Before demolishing my PC last year and building a new one once … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Programming
Tagged backups, Chef's Book, lastfm, Music, Programming, Rsync, Steam
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Progress with adding iCloud to Chef’s Book.
There are some interesting challenges with incorporating iCloud support, especially into an existing application. One, which I’ve been working through, is that you can no longer copy in a pre-existing store for the purposes of loading data. Such a move … Continue reading
Posted in Chef's Book, Programming
Tagged Chef's Book, Core-Data, icloud, iOS, migrations, news, objective-c
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Fun with bash and old photo libraries.
It recently dawned on me I had huge swathes of my photo collection entirely gone. Something like 3 years that were nowhere to be found on flickr or my main PC or Mac. I’m not sure how this gap appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Computer, Photography, Programming
Tagged aperture, backups, bash, photos, recovery, script
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Has it been nearly a month?
It’s odd, I can’t believe it’s been that long since the last post. There hasn’t really been anything to write about, no trials with code, no revelations, just fairly steady progress. In other news I’ve finished one playthrough of The … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany
Tagged games, JA2, Jagged Alliance, Jagged Alliance 2, Witcher
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Jagged Alliance 2 – the static universal binary.
Using a lot of cues from elsewhere I’ve put together a DMG containing JA2 statically linked to the necessary SDL library. It contains the data for the 800×600 mod my Mythrell and still requires the game data files. More information … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany
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The MD5 checksum bug identified.
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
Posted in Chef's Book, Programming
Tagged nil, nsdictionary, NSManagedObject, nsnull, null
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Implementing iTunes syncing and a lesson to always run unit tests.
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
Posted in App Store, Chef's Book, Programming
Tagged document support, iphone, itunes, synchronising
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Roger Hargreaves 76th Birthday – Google Logos
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.
Posted in Art, Miscellany
Tagged Birthday, Google, Logos, Mr. Men, Roger Hargreaves
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Recipe for Tunnock Cakes (Marshmallow Teacakes)
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