http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog Corbin Dunn and Louise Lovelle Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:08:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted from: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3355,-122.0307 http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/natural-vista/ I'm quite happy that my work promotes green living. http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/greener-aapls/ [Edit: ecto ate this post, so I'm typing it in again!] I discovered that a lot of applications will unnecessarily write to NSUserDefaults. This causes your app to hit the disk when it shouldn't, and is a slight performance penalty. AppKit is also susceptible to this problem; if you hit cmd-O ... http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/cocoa-programmers-avoid-writing-to-the-user-defaults-when-you-dont-need-to/ Hmmm pizza! We had a great time riding mr Toads. 3hrs and 15 min-- quite fast! Chuck and kevin finished an x large pizza. Louise and I ate only half. http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/post-muni-pizza/ Chuck had a snack on the drive up. http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/chuck-with-4-dinners/ One of the most annoying dialogs in Xcode is the undo warning dialog you get when attempting to undo after a save. I do this all the time, and I hate the warning. Luckily, there is a user default to turn it off: defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCShowUndoPastSaveWarning NO http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/getting-rid-of-the-undo-warning-in-xcode-after-saving/ Do you want to just learn to unicycle, or do you want to eventually mountain unicycle (muni)? If your goal is simply to learn to unicycle, your best bet is to get a cheap starter unicycle. These can cost $40-$160, depending on how you get it and from where. If you ... http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/tips-for-getting-into-unicycling-and-mountain-unicycling/ We are going to go muni riding in northstar this weekend! The place has lifts so we can just ride downhill. Here's the car with my first ever attempt of loading unicycles on the roof. Edit: I can spell...but writing some posts on the iPhone sometimes doesn't work well... ... http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/northstar-muni-thia-weekend/ http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/wake-up-and-smell-the-cocoa/ .....drumroll please...and it is...is: objc_exception_throw. You should always have this breakpoint setup in any Cocoa or Cocoa Touch app that you are building. How do you do it? In Xcode, Run -> Show -> Breakpoints and double click on a new breakpoint. Type it in, ie: Exceptions in cocoa are, well, exceptional. ... http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/your-most-important-breakpoint-in-cocoa/