Re: Do Debug Apps Expire on iOS?

Debug it some other way than with Xcode. Possibly you have a serious bug, but running under the debugger alters something so that the bug isn't stimulated. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or

Re: Prioritize my own app's disk access

If it's a dedicated workstation, it should be OK to require a RAID 0. That won't affect anyone's priority, but all disk I/O will be divided among two or more disks. Alternatively, dedicate a single drive only to video, with your other drive being for everything else. Michael David Crawford

Re: Simplest way to generate audio tones?

/BirthCry.cpp Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> On May 28, 2016, at 8:24 PM, Graham Cox <graham@

Re: Apple Bug no response

I have a bug in Apple's sample code that would be a trivial fix, that has been open for eight years. By contrast I've reported a few kernel bugs. Each was fixed in the very next build. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do

Re: [OT] Forums for Web Development?

Soylent News, http://soylentnews.org/ Submit an "Ask Soylent News" story. If you ask your questions intelligently they'll run your story. Many Soylentils are web app coders. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Make

Re: mmap quiet failure - all reads are 0x00

. But don't just focus narrowly on the mmap itself. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:09

Re: catching statuses of lights

color filters might simplify the problem. Also are the lights in a fixed location? Do you plan to let your iDevice do the driving? ;-D Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Fri, Jan 29, 2016

Re: OpenGL Vertical Syncing effect on run loops

was devoted to back and forth context switches that did no other work of any sort. My current use of the display link resulted in a tenfold increase in performance. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle

Re: iOS 9 or Watch App

For me, it works OK to put the Xcode app bundles in folders: /Applications/Xcode_5/Xcode.app /Applications/Xcode_6/Xcode.app however you may only have one version of the command line tools installed in /usr/bin and the like. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf

Re: Is it possible to transfer data by using light

personal phone. Modern Macs - to the best of my knowledge - provide trusted computing chips, on can access them from userspace with a modest bit of code. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle

Re: Is it possible to transfer data by using light

that modern computer user interfaces caused my seizure disorder as well as that of my cousin. Seizures are not otherwise found among any of our blood relatives. Have A Nice Day. Mike Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One

Re: Is it possible to transfer data by using light

shades of grey could transmit more data while avoiding the stimulation of seizures. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9

Re: Progress Bar Gripe

ce Manager code. That the bug reports I file don't get fixed is what led me to abandon the Apple platform for Linux. I invite you to continue our friendly debate. Mike Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trif

Progress Bar Gripe

gravation. Curmudgeonly Yours, Mike Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Coco

Re: Puzzling memory creep

. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:13 AM, <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com> wrote: > So don't cre

Re: How to terminate an NSTask whenever my app terminates?

On the UNIX command line "nohup" prevents children from being killed when the parent exits. If you want to manually start a daemon: $ nohup mydaemon & Then you can log out and it keeps running. -- Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@

Re: Crash help?

not have found the crash we're discussing but it will find many others by the time you ship. Also assertions are more effective than comments for documenting APIs because one is forced to maintain them along with the rest of the code. - Mike -- Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process

Re: Completely baffled by NSTabViewController + Autolayout

competitors. (Soggy Wizard is a brand-new domain however I expect to start my web server by tomorrow afternoon or so.) Have A Nice Day. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect http://mike.soggywizards.com/ mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us

Request iOS setting to disable ALL UI animation.

Miguel de la Chula Vista http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ mdcrawf...@gmail.com 53n7 fr0m my 1P4d. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself

Re: Regarding these Olivia messages. Can we do something about the list security?

requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford

Re: Regarding these Olivia messages. Can we do something about the list security?

Chris, Your old homey Mike suggests that cocoa-dev could use a little TLC. Mike On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com wrote: Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx The CERT Division http://www.cert.org/ Forum

Re: Regarding these Olivia messages. Can we do something about the list security?

subscription forms. I'll Send You My Bill In The Mail. Mike mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power

Re: Cocoa Error Domain code symbols in Swift

ones. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past. ___ Cocoa

Re: MODERATOR: End of Thread (was Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed)

/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com javascript:; -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath

Re: C Sharp?

with gcj. This would be too much work for just one use but could be a market opportunity. Knock yourself out. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself

I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed

in meatspace aren't doing the job. Recently I attempt gentle diplomacy. To some extent that seems to help, but I'm just one person. Can you help in any way, or recommend something or someone else who can? Ever Faithful, Mike -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf

Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed

meetings, register voters, make Get Out The Vote phone calls and transcribe hardcopy campaign finance disclosure statements onto the Web. Thanks for letting me clear all that up. Mike -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc

Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed

On 7/15/15, Raglan T. Tiger r...@crusaderrabbit.net wrote: Take it to Reddit and leave us alone. Thanks for setting me straight. I didn't realize that Apple's engineers hang out at Reddit. Mike -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http

Re: Translate curl command to NSURLRequest

Would it work to use libcurl instead? I dont know but would be unsurprised were that to be what NSURLRequest actually does. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon

Would you pay for a better table view?

appeared to be a Mac OS List Manager list work with three billion items. Mike -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Re: Cheating a synchronous call on the main thread

Use a background task to do the real work then deliver the result on a queue. mUseba synchronous call to fetch the result from the queue or return an error result if the queue is empty. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc

Why do so many iOS apps have such poor quality?

can it be to add assertions to your source? -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing

Re: Scary Stuff!

I was a Debug Meister for Apple in the mid-90s. It was fascinating work but I applied for an internal transfer because I had the sense that my work would never be finished. That is, we will never run out of bugs. It gets me down sometimes. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer

Most People Still Use Dialup

they download. When I was the Product Development Manager for Working Software I kept twelve people employed despite that I only had a 40 MB hard drive. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Re: Most People Still Use Dialup

Northern China has to talk to Southern China via Japan. This because some party official gave his son the gift of what at one time was the northern part of the state telecommunications monopoly. On 6/16/15, Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com wrote: I was finally able to download that 1

Re: Goodbye and Thanks for All The Code

that, I really _do_ enjoy writing code but some things are really more important than how many mice one's app scores in a trade rag product review. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland

Re: Most People Still Use Dialup

berkeley.edu $ sudo ping -c 100 -f www.vatican.va By tracerouting before and after that flushing, I can see that my packets traverse far fewer routers. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Re: Most People Still Use Dialup

offensive, to hook up my printer at Starbucks. On 6/16/15, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 16, 2015, at 6:34 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: I was finally able to download that 1 GB printer driver assortment, but only by wandering around trying different wifi spots. I knew that I could

Goodbye and Thanks for All The Code

; a while back I wrote an online book called Solving the Software Problem: a Taxonomy of Error. While I wrote it pseudonymously as Jonathan Swift, on my Contact page I wrote: = I suppose this is a good place to clue you all in to the fact that my real name is Michael David Crawford. I

Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?

Apple, given that it is Apple's written policy to reject crashy apps from the app store. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7

Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?

Engineer's Solemn Duty http://www.warplife.com/ethics/duty.html Thanks for letting me clear all that up. Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?

nothing that Cocoa or Cocoa touch can do that ZooLib couldn't do better in ISO C++. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:53

Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?

to my extensive C++ experience being of absolutely no use when I apply for such coding gigs - this despite that I've used C++ on the Mac since 1990, while working for Apple. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software

Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?

tweaky little optimizations like reordering data accesses so as to reduce cache misses. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015

[OT] correcting mistaken identity

for contacting me; I will reply to your inquiry as promptly as I can. Please permit me to avail myself of this opportunity to point out that I am a Physicist and a Software Engineer, and am very much alive. The tattoo artist also named Michael David Crawford who did time in Walla Walla commencing

Re: Wanted: Elegant way to manage this task

to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

their comments I withdraw my application. If their coding conventions are the sort that are likely to lead to correct code then I pursue the job with enthusiasm. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

of fault-tolerance engineered in, that fault-tolerance depended on correct C++ code. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

over my source and don't find any comments in it. Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Kyle Sluder k

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

I've always used m to prefix ivars: mSpeed, mDistance. I use s for statics and k for constants. I'd like to find a good convention for distinguishing properties but haven't really found one that is appealing to me. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

are clueless. That's just wrong. Assembly code doesn't really have control flow constructs. You make them out of gotos - condition or unconditional branches. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

Steve - are you saying that C++ destructors aren't called if you use a goto? It was my understanding that the destructor is called if you go out of scope for any reason, even if it's a goto. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

, Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com wrote: I quite commonly fix bugs by refactoring all the lengthy routines into several shorter ones. I have the same rule of thumb - if it's not obvious what's going on, I should probably think about refactoring it into smaller chunks

Re: Looking at self = [super init].

of code goes here result = self; epilog: return result; } Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Graham Cox graham

Re: [PSA] OSStatus.com -- Error code lookup

May I Bear Your Firstborn? Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Seth Willits sli...@araelium.com wrote: I can't

[OT] Computer Employer Index

once I have enough links that I can make a splash by announcing that specific page. You could help a lot of people out were you to pass the URL onto those who you genuinely feel would be interested in or would benefit from it. Yours, Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer

Re: Copy test docs to Simulator App's Documents folder?

the settings in my plist aren't consistent with the rest of the project I will check that. Someone already filed a radar in which he request that we be able to set up Application Data for the Simulator. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http

Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?

while neglecting to remove the original ivar. This leaves me somewhat in the same situation as you. As I refactor my own code I keep in mind each of the above three situations. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available

Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?

You could comment off their declarations in your header files, then have a look at which uses of them in your sources result in fatal compiler errors. (Comment off just one at a time.) Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc

Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?

of lines of code. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On May 20, 2015, at 4:08

Re: How to draw a NSView on top of a WebView and don't get overriden trying

. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf

Re: IB_DESIGNABLE - anyone got it to work?

/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Re: Outlets are nil after awakeFromNib call

...@gmail.com -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com

Re: Rotate a standard Cocoa control?

Thanks! Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 8 May 2015, at 9:04 am

Drawing many thin vertical lines is very slow

done lots of direct memory pixel manipulations over the years, that wouldn't be a problem for me to implement but before I do, do you think it would be a good idea? -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software

Re: Rotate a standard Cocoa control?

You could do what Apple's UIKit engineers do: implement your own subclass of UIView, with your own drawing and hit testing. Then you could put your radio in a wooden cabinet, maybe model some of the warm distortion that vacuum tubes yield Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer

Re: Rotate a standard Cocoa control?

the indicator with an image from a PNG. At the very end have a designer do nice graphics. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3

Re: static analyzers says I'm leaking, I _think_ I'm not

setUpTheBomb]; } Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On May 6, 2015, at 4:40 PM

static analyzers says I'm leaking, I _think_ I'm not

be taking ownership of it with alloc/initWithGrid. (initWithGrid doesn't do a cyclic retain.) Thanks, Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Re: static analyzers says I'm leaking, I _think_ I'm not

, client code turns the cycler on and off, adjusts its speed and so on. My code might be easier to maintain if the grid exposed an interface to do all that. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Re: static analyzers says I'm leaking, I _think_ I'm not

This is 6.2. I speculated a different diagnostic was a bug; were it correct, I would have seen that same diagnostic on some other code. I'll file a radar with a minimal test case if you'd like me to. I'll download 6.3.1 right now. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf

malloc(0) returns a pointer, not NULL

= malloc( bytes ); Just thought you'd like to know, Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. ___ Cocoa-dev