Author Archives: joachim

Double-clicking NSTableViews

If you want to handle double-clicks in NSTableViews, be sure to check out following Q&A article from Apple: Debugging NSTableView’s “Action Invocation” binding. It saved me a lot of time.

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Unexpected error using mdimport

If you are using mdimport and get the message Can’t checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, then it’s quite possible that Spotlight’s metadata datatore is broken. To fix the problem run sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MyVolume to erase the broken datastore. If … Continue reading

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Xsan and Spotlight

If you are running Xsan and think about enabling Spotlight indexing (using mdutil -i) for an Xsan volume, please don’t. Spotlight isn’t designed to work with volumes mounted on more than one machine simultaneously. The side-effects of enabling Spotlight indexing … Continue reading

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SiteCapture released!

Finally! SiteCapture 1.0 is officially released. It’s a software utility for Mac OS X which creates screen shots and thumbnails of web pages. With one click, SiteCapture loads a set of web pages and creates images in the format you … Continue reading

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Adobe Reader 8.0

Adobe has released the new Reader version corresponding to Acrobat 8 released a few weeks earlier and I’m very pleased of the mac version especially, because it runs natively on Intel Macs and has been partially rewritten in Cocoa (the … Continue reading

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SiteCapture coming soon!

More information will be posted on my Mac OS X software page soon.

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Never call [object dealloc]

My tip of the day when coding in Objective C: Never call the dealloc method yourself unless you really know what you are doing! Using release is usually a much better choice 🙂 .

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AFLAX

While reading the Ajaxian news, I stumbled upon Aptana which finally led me to AFLAX through one of its screencasts. AFLAX is Flash based canvas object which can be fully accessed by JavaScript. That’s what I call a great idea! … Continue reading

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Noch 73 Tage…

… bis Herbstbeginn!

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JavaScript Debugger for WebKit

The latest WebKit nightly build incorporates a second application called Drosera which is a standalone JavaScript debugger. To debug JavaScript, Drosera can connect to a debug server which can be any application using a recent WebKit build, like the latest … Continue reading

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