[11-11-2012]

Humble Bundle for Android 4 has arrived!!

Here is the note from the Humble Bundle page: http://www.humblebundle.com “Crayon Physics Deluxe, Eufloria, Splice, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Waking Mars. If you choose to pay more than the average price, you will also get Machinarium!” I am sure that Sword & Sworcery EP and Machinarium themselves are worth buying the whole bundle!!


[09-11-2012]

Accelerated Mac OS X Core Dump Analysis Dmitry Vostokov

Summary: Worth the price This book is definitely worth the price. It is costly, but still, worth the price. If you have a team of people who are descent to work with GDB but are not familiar with it yet, simply buy it. If you are an individual – this book is very pricy to […]


[06-11-2012]

an error occurred uploading to the itunes store – Oracle’s Java 1.7 u10

If you are getting following message while submitting apps into App Store an error occurred uploading to the itunes store And you have recently installed Oracle’s Java 1.7 these are the steps that may help you cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions sudo mv Current Current~ sudo ln -s /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents Current After this change, make sure you are running […]


[05-11-2012]

NetBeans 7.3 beta OS X 10.7 – Java 1.7 related issue

It looks like NetBeans 7.3 beta is not working correctly with Java 1.7_06 and Java 1.7_09. In order to get it working download early access version from here: http://jdk7.java.net/download.html – JDK 7u10


[31-10-2012]

Java EE 6 Pocket Guide by Arun Gupta

Summary: Must have This is simply a must have. I know you can always refer directly to J2EE specification, but from time to time, all you need is a short sneak peek. That’s what this book is designed for. To give you this kind of short references in most commonly used areas of J2EE development. […]


[30-10-2012]

ScreenFlow 4.0 is here

There is a new release of ScreenFlow 4.0. You can find it here. Few features: – outline works as it should, at last! – video filters – you don’t have to export movies to iMovie in order to apply some effects on the video – audio filters – the same as above – sound on […]


[28-10-2012]

Simple JNI – passing array from C to Java

Create these files: /* Simple.h */ #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT jintArray JNICALL Java_Simple_getArray (JNIEnv *, jobject, jint); /* Simple.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include “Simple.h” #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT jintArray JNICALL Java_Simple_getArray (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jint size) { int i; jintArray position=(jintArray)(*env)->NewIntArray(env,size); if(position==NULL) return NULL; jint *f = calloc(size, sizeof(jint)); for(i=0; i < size; i++) […]


[25-10-2012]

tcsh bash like tab completion

To get file completion within tcsh use Esc. However, hitting Esc will not show you the files available for completion. To get Tab functionality (as in bash), set following variable in ~/.cshrc set autolist


[24-10-2012]

Simple JNI – passing array from Java to C

Create these files: /* Simple.h */ #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_Simple_passArray (JNIEnv *, jobject, jintArray); /* Simple.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include “Simple.h” #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_Simple_passArray (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jintArray ptr) { int i; printf(“Hello from JNI\n”); jsize len = (*env)->GetArrayLength(env, ptr); jint *body = (*env)->GetIntArrayElements(env, ptr, 0); for […]


[19-10-2012]

MuteMyMic 1.9.1 – released

Update as fast as you can. It solves the bug that was accidentally released with version 1.9. This update is free – of course. You can get it here: MuteMyMic 1.9.1


[09-10-2012]

Intermediate Perl by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix

Summary: Good read, but sometimes too complex I think this book is really a good read. If you like the style of Learning Perl you will like this book as well. The same, light, approach to quite complex topic. However, this book might be too much for people who use Perl primarily as a tool […]


[09-10-2012]

iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example by Zeeshan Chawdhary

Summary: Beginners guide to location This book is a simple introduction to location development. In my opinion, slightly outdated (it covers XCode 4.2 and iOS 5). It also covers topics like migration from XCode 3 to XCode 4 – I am not sure if anyone will be interested in that. If you prefer digging in […]


[03-10-2012]

Embedding Groovy in Java

0. Create some space where you can test everything mkdir ~/groovy_and_java cd ~/groovy_and_java 1. Download most recent version of Groovy curl “http://dist.groovy.codehaus.org/distributions \ /groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip” -o groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip unzip groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip 2. Create space for sample code mkdir SampleCode cd SampleCode 3. Create two files SimpleGroovyCall.java import groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader; import groovy.lang.GroovyObject; import java.io.File; public class SimpleGroovyCall { public static […]


[29-09-2012]

Buy where you shop

Some time ago I have read this short article from O’Reilly: Buy where you shop. It points out few important aspects of on-line selling and situation of the people who are in the business. I think there is an analogy here, when it comes to buying digital content on-line. At the moment you have loots […]


[29-09-2012]

Certificate identity appears more than once in the keychain

Certificate identity ‘Here comes your identity’ appears more than once in the keychain. The codesign tool requires there only be one. This bug made me spent like an hour in front of XCode and Apple Developer portal. In my case, the solution was to remove any conflicting certificates that have the same name. Basically, open […]


[26-09-2012]

Humble Bundle 6 – cool games are awaiting

You can find info related to Humble Bundle 6 here: https://www.humblebundle.com. There are few really, really cool games. My favorites are: Rochard (I have bought it some time ago right from developers and this one is really a fun), Torchligh – I think I don’t have to explain anything. If you don’t have Torchlight yet, […]


[25-09-2012]

NSData+Base64.h XCode 4.5 iOS 6

If you are getting following error: ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[NSConcreteData dataUsingEncoding:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance while using NSData+Base64 category, make sure that object you are passing to + (NSData *)dataFromBase64String:(NSString *)aString is actually of type NSString *.


[24-09-2012]

UINavigationController – passing data between views

There is a really, really nice description of this topic in this book: Amazon (in Books): Programming iOS 5: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Development Look at the section: 4.3. Passing Data From One Screen to Another. You can find there concept of UIStoryboardSegue described quite simply. Worth checking.


[24-09-2012]

Adding icon@2x.png into SVN under OS X

If you develop iOS based apps you will come to this issue sooner or later. shell> svn add Default\@2x.png svn: warning: ‘Default’ not found In order to avoid this issue simply add empty revision version followed just after additional “@”. shell> svn add Default\@2x.png@ This is not clearly stated in manual, but you can pass […]


[24-09-2012]

Packt Publishing – 1000 IT titles, here we come

Recently, I found interesting notice regarding Packt Publishing – 1000 IT titles. If you dig in, and read carefully, you can find out that Pack is offering free gifts in exchange for registering at Packt Publishing (free of charge!). If you’d like to check this out, just go and visit this page. Note! According to […]