Entries tagged "OSX"

Mac OSX: starting postgres on boot

28 feb 2013

Every bloody operating system has it's own unique way of starting things at boot time. Today I bothered to learn how OS X does it. Here's how I got PostgreSQL to start when my machine is turned on.

XCode: Archive validation fails

13 may 2011

If you ever see a message from archive validation that states

Path x in Bom is missing from payload

then you might be about to enter a world of pain that I've just exited from.

defaultInputDeviceWithMediaType: QTMediaTypeVideo is always nil!

17 apr 2011

I've been playing around with the QTKit in Cocoa. I looked at the sample code and bar the usual Quicktime weirdness and some threading nuances it all seemed pretty simple. The sample code ran just fine and thanks to the macam drivers I could use my PSX3 Eye with my Mac....

Cocoa: All Apps That Are Browsers

02 apr 2011

For a little side project (that I abandoned) I needed to find all installed web browsers in OS X. After a little poking about in the API docs I can up with this....

Mantis Bug Tracker Icon For Fluid

30 mar 2011

I've used MantisBT for many years both commercially and personally. It really is a good all round bug/task tracker that you can present to normal users and they WILL be able to submit bugs to you without being frightened away (I'm looking at you Bugzilla!).

I don't use Mantis in my no...

XCode 4: Duplicating a target to make an iPad build link error

25 mar 2011

ve been working on an iOS game for a four months now and it's time to create a new target for iPad. The XCode documentation says to select your target, right click and select Duplicate and the Click Duplicate and Transition to iPad. Once this is done there is a shiny new Scheme to build, test and deploy for iPad complete with a new MainWindow.xib....

MiniTune: Releaed!

18 mar 2011

After many late nights I am very proud to shout out that MiniTune has been released and is available NOW at the app store...