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I’ve been using gnome-terminal for yonks now under Linux and have always been miffed at the URL matcher just not picking up URLs I thought it should. Modern browsers don’t necessarily percent encode what’s in the URL bar, so cut and paste into things like IRC might not work for some, and there are [...]

I use htop, a top replacement for process management on Linux, quite a bit, and I found a bug in it recently which I’ve fixed.  Depending on your memory configuration, the bar meter for memory usage can draw incorrectly, with the yellow colour for the cache size overflowing the caption on the right.  I’ve submitted [...]

Not much has happened recently on the iPhone dev front (I’ve got an app ready for submission, and Apple are open for 3.0 subs now, but I haven’t had the time or inclination), but there’s been plenty going on with me and development in general.  I’ve never really said it out loud in public on [...]

I meant to post this on Sunday after I was done, but other things distracted me. I’m pretty much done on the first app now, after sorting out my main app delegate and my last issues with the view controller. The actual logic of the app was pretty simple, and while I still [...]

This week’s coding endeavours have mostly been on Linux and with C, as I work on a patch for gnome-terminal to fix a long-standing problem I’ve had with it.  On the Mac with the iPhone, I’ve still got that really annoying skipping mouse pointer problem, which I think I’ve narrowed down to being the fault [...]

This weekend has been spent mostly doing iPhone dev (punctuated by a fair bit of Left 4 Dead, I must admit), but not in Xcode or IB that much. While I’m pretty handy with Obj-C now, I decided to pull back a little and just double check that my knowledge is where I think [...]

I’ve not had a chance to code much on the phone this week, because I’ve been back at work.  I’ll have a completely free weekend for it though, which I’m looking forward to.  The 3.0 announcement brought a smile to my face, because it adds a couple of things that’ll be really useful to my [...]

Not much happened today, since I spent the morning doing server admin and maintenance for B3D, and then the afternoon was filled with Watchmen.
Lazily prodded CoreGraphics when I got back, and filled in a bit more online paperwork with Apple, along with coughing up for the yearly fee.
I’m also going to grab a book or [...]

I’ve mostly made my way through the videos and initial documentation now from the iPhone Dev Centre, with just a big one from WWDC to come tomorrow morning.  Most of the video content is fairly high-level, but there’s been a couple of eye-openers and minor gems to take note of.  I’ve been organising my thinking [...]

The last couple of days of the dev process have been spent reading and watching for the most part, rather than being at the keyboard writing code. I’ve been going through the iPhone Dev Center material piece-by-piece, absorbing things in a rough order, intermingled with coding here and there as I learn Objective-C.
I mostly [...]