Monthly Archives: March, 2007
Apple knows interface
I added a second DVD drive to my MacPro today. Because I can’t make my SuperDrive region free I just plumped for putting a second drive in. Now you may or may not know this but there is no CD eject button on the MacPro (or any apple machine). I have a single key on [...]
Humorous Examples in documentation
I’ve been a fan of adding a little humor to dry documentation for as long as I’ve been reading dry documentation. It doesn’t need to be a stand up routine Just a little bit of the character of the author will do. I just came across this in the Cocoa documentation for NSString: Discussion The [...]
XQuery is like a breath of fresh air!
I’ve been processing a lot of XML in Cocoa recently and thought to myself there must be a better way to do this. Rather then loop through the elements pulling out the information I need. That’s when I remembered about XPath. Looking in the Apple docs I stumbled upon XQuery which seems to allow a [...]
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