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By adfm : 24 June 2010 - 01:47 PM

Are you an artist, tinkerer, or programmer interested in creating interactive graphics? Perhaps you're interested in physical computing and would like to control a 3D printer? You're likely going to...

By adfm : 24 June 2010 - 10:49 AM

Want to cut some of that overhead incurred while rendering a scene? Why use full-screen anti-aliasing when you don't have to? This shortcut from Philip Rideout's iPhone 3D Programming will show you ...

By Doron Katz : 23 June 2010 - 02:33 PM

Hi folks, I wanted to talk about Static Analysis in XCode. For you iPhone and Mac developers, this new feature available in Snow Leopard and xCode 3.2, the advanced warning identifier that goes hand i...

By Doron Katz : 23 June 2010 - 02:28 PM

There are four different comment tags we can use when coding in XCode, that will allow us to to navigate the source code with some handy pointers. The tags are FIXME, TODO and ???. So far you may onl...

By Doron Katz : 23 June 2010 - 02:24 PM

For those of you who happen to come across the familiar console error EXC_BAD_ACCESS and you feel stumped, it helps to understand a bit about what this error actually is. The EXC_BAD_ACCESS that y...

By Doron Katz : 23 June 2010 - 02:18 PM

I thought i'd write up a bit on the Class Browser feature of XCode, since it is one of my favourite tools of the IDE. It's not really very popular in it's mention with a few of the authors...

By Doron Katz : 23 June 2010 - 02:10 PM

If you are developing an app on your mac, and need to simulate slower network speeds, such as for testing 3G and 2G speeds, on your iPhone simulator, SpeedLimit is your answer. This free tool sits in ...

By adfm : 23 June 2010 - 10:38 AM

Telling the difference between a local or SAN disk with vCenter can be tricky since there's nothing apparent to denote the origin of a datastore. This recipe from Troy & Helmke's VMware Cookbook...

By adfm : 23 June 2010 - 09:02 AM

When you're stuck without a connection to the Internet to download your favorite network troubleshooting tools and all you have access to is a plain-vanilla Windows 7 install, it's nice to know what...

By Doron Katz : 22 June 2010 - 07:57 PM

Many of us who have moved on from the iPhone to an Android device, might have moved on to using gmail but for those of us who have been on MobileMe for quite some time, we don't have to get rid of...