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Archive for March, 2006

Mugshot 0.5.1

This build fixes one issue that was causing launch failures on Intel Macs. It should at least allow you to get the app launched. After that, I can’t guarantee a problem-free experience

Click here to download or visit the Downloads page.

I’m tracking other bugs for drag-selecting, the “downloading photos…” status message not going away, and [...]

NSImage: Deceivingly Simple or Just Deceiving?

Several weeks ago, Daniel Jalkut posted an entry about NSString, and it’s deceivingly simple ability to handle Unicode strings with little or no knowledge of Unicode, ASCII, or their details from the developer. That got me thinking… there are quite a few deceivingly simple Cocoa classes that are dead simple to use, but mask a [...]

Mugshot 0.5

At long last, I finally finished the latest update to my Flickr photo management application. I had planned to finish this release weeks ago, but took a few detours, had some job interviews, and a vacation. Sorry about that In any case, there’s quite a bit that’s new in this release, and overall, it [...]

BSJSONAdditions 1.2

Thanks to contributions from Bill Garrison, I’ve updated BSJSONAdditions to 1.2. Bill adapted the unit tests from Jonathan Wight’s CocoaJSON and found that my code was not correctly parsing escaped Unicode characters. So Bill provided a fix along with the adapted unit tests. The updated code is available from the newly-created, overly-colorful Downloads page.

Ahhhhh, My Eyes!!

For the past month or so, I’ve had an item in my kGTD list to get some more content up on this site. Well, to procrastinate on really spending some time on it, I whipped up a few pages using iWeb. They’re not pretty, but at least people landing at blakeseely.com will know there’s something [...]

Xcode Run Script Phase: A Tip & A Plug

As part of the Mugshot build process, I have a custom AppleScript that runs and converts my Flickr method bindings OmniOutliner document into a different format so it can get bundled and included with the app. (It’s much less complicated than it sounds, I swear.) I have this script included in my build phase as [...]

Multiple Automator Actions, One Xcode Project

The latest build of Download Color Field Images actually includes two Automator actions: The first is the public action that allows you to select a color and download images whose RGB average closely matches that color; The other is a private action that is scheduled to run weekly on my computer. This second action is [...]

Did You Pass Math?

I have started getting quite a bit of comment spam here. I sat down tonight to add a captcha or other spam deterrent, and saw that there’s already quite a few WordPress plugins that handle this. I installed Did You Pass Math, which seems as simple and painless as any of the others and works [...]

NSTableDataSource documentation error

This is a public service announcement. If you’re tempted to copy the tableView:validateDrop method definition from the documentation page here please note that it’s incorrect.

The method definition (but not the header or link) listed on that page starts with “aTableView:” but it should be “tableView:”.

I just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why my [...]

BSJSONAdditions 1.1

I updated my JSON additions to NSDictionary to make the output of -jsonStringValue more readable: It will now indent properly based on the nesting level of each dictionary. (The previous version simply output one long string). In some cases, such as an array of dictionaries, the output can still be confusing, but in most other [...]