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Category Archives: Macintosh
Running Oracle – The Solution
This follows on from my previous posting. Searching for an Oracle This is kind of old news now, because it’s been in use since SQLEditor 1.2 was released. However I though I would explain how I solved the problem that … Continue reading
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Tagged Database, Oracle, Parallels-workstation, SQL, SQLEditor, technology
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Change console keyboard layout in debian
I’ve been using Parallels Workstation virtualization a lot recently for testing databases and it works amazingly well. However I did come across a weird problem. I’d installed Debian linux and the console keyboard layout wasn’t correct for my Apple USB … Continue reading
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Finding and fixing StackOverFlowError in java
I was having a problem with some java one day, I’d made a change to some code and I kept getting a StackOverflowError. Unfortunately the stack trace didn’t help and some time inspecting the code didn’t offer any quick solutions. … Continue reading
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Searching for an Oracle
Recently I’ve been trying to set up a box to run Oracle again. There are enough SQLEditor users that Oracle support is important. Fortunately Oracle have several downloads that can be used, there is a developer license for 10g and … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Stuff, Linux, Macintosh, SQLEditor, Windows
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Crash with WSMethodInvocationInvoke and malformed XML
I’ve been doing some stuff recently with XMLRPC for both SQLEditor and an unannounced new product. One of the key parts of XMLRPC in cocoa is the Apple web services Core. It provides almost everything you need to use web … Continue reading
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PHP, trim and the non breaking space
An odd thing occurred today, I was trying to do trim($string) on a string in php, but I kept getting strings back that appeared to have a space at the beginning, the exact thing that trim is supposed to remove. … Continue reading
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plutil
STANDARDS The plutil command obeys no one’s rules but its own. from the plutil man page
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SQLEditor built for Mac On Intel
SQLEditor has now been built for Mac OS X/Intel as well as Mac OS X/ppc. I was able to download the Xcode 2.1 release last night and worked on the port this morning. SQLEditor at the moment still has bits … Continue reading
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Mac OS X Intel
It has been officially announced that the Mac platform will be moving to Intel processors. I’m still thinking about what this means for MalcolmHardie Software and SQLEditor and I have been reading about the transition to find out more. Some … Continue reading
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Apples & Intel?
Maybe it’s going to be hardware based dynamic recompilation? Or some kind of microcode based emulator? Modern microprocessors are usually doing conversion of the assembly anyway, so why not from one instruction set to another. I guess we’ll all know … Continue reading
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Key labels or no key labels?
I’ve been slightly concerned recently that the key labels are rubbing off the keyboard of my iBook. But then I found this. A keyboard with no key labeling at all. 104 entirely black keys, no labels. Interestingly it promises to … Continue reading
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MPW mac error messages
Some old error messages from MPW (which was kind of like XCode for Mac before Mac OS X in one sense). “String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that’s 3 more than ANSI said I should)” “…And … Continue reading
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Garbage Collection in Cocoa
One of the interesting things that seems to be happening with Cocoa is the addition of garbage collection. A finalize method has appeared in the documentation for NSObject. There is a curious warning attached to it stating that it isn’t … Continue reading
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iBook restore DVD
I was recently trying to install a particular package from the basic Mac OS X installation (Address Book.app) which for some reason had been deleted. Probably in a desperate attempt to free up some disk space. It took me some … Continue reading
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iMac Mini Disassembly probably ok?
Daring Fireball has a comment from someone who saw a Mac Mini being disassembled and it sounds ok. A standard issue putty knife and some assistance from a jack knife were all that was needed to crack the case.
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Pocket PC and Mac OS X
In a break from SQLEditor and other similar things I’ve been trying to connect my pocket pc to my macintosh. After some experimentation I have sucessfully installed synce using instructions . I have also got the pocket pc to connect … Continue reading
DocBook and Apple Help
One of the key tools I’ve been using recently is Docbook. Docbook is an xml-schema which can be used to write documentation for things. This can then be converted via the wonders of XSL, XML and XML-FO processors into PDF, … Continue reading
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SQLEditor released!
After a rather over-extended development cycle SQLEditor version 1.0 has now been released. Which is a great relief to me. I’ve been working on it for so long now that I can’t quite remember not working on it, which is … Continue reading
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Writing Documentation
I’m currently in the middle of writing user documentation of SQLEditor. I finally settled on docbook as the format of choice since it seems the most compatible with other things. I’m using this tutorial to build the stuff although saxon … Continue reading
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Mac OS X keyboard layouts
I was reading macsurfer today and I came across an interesting article by a Canadian called Joe Clark who wanted to remove the US flag from the input mode menu item. This got me thinking, could I write something that … Continue reading