Posted on November 7th, 2007 by headwedge
…again.
I want to like XCode 3 I really do.
I like:
1/ The in-code error messages:
2/ erm…
3/ that’s it
I do not like:
1/ That code sense no longer auto-completes print to System.out.println(…), oh no now you have to type System.out.print before it will auto-complete wtf?! So, take one of the most commonly typed pieces of Java code [...]
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Posted on November 1st, 2007 by headwedge
I’m dissapointed.
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Posted on September 12th, 2007 by headwedge
I hate anti-ternarism and I would generally consider it pathognomonic for Time Wasting-Morons who have not been ratcheted up in its use.
The Ternary Operator offers a very concise and readable alternative to nested if-then-else constructs in assignment and imho should be preferred in the languages that implement its concise form.
it represents: a := if [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2007 by headwedge
I know it is a while since I coded using Java but apparently
java.awt.Toolkit getFontMetrics()
was deprecated some 8 years ago! As this irate user noted in 1999 and was (rightly) not much amused by the response [link].
So what to use instead? There seems to be 2 main alternatives these days in Java world. Both [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by headwedge
Okay, so this isn’t a new notion [link] [link] and it depends on how you interpret it [link] and some Wag will let you vote on the issue, but n seems quite small at the moment [link].
But from the point of view of its verbosity then Java is dreadful and has become worse in the [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2007 by headwedge
This digg article winds me up: “I searched and searched for a handy list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts, being a Mac N00B and this widget is exactly what I needed. Since discovering neat shortcuts like COMMAND-SHIFT-3 (Screenshot) and COMMAND-SHIFT-4 (Select area of screen for screenshot) I have found many features of OS [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2007 by headwedge
I am fed up of every new xcode file that I create containing the line:
// Copyright (c) 2007 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.
But how do you change __MyCompanyName___ to something useful?
Xcode 2.4 Expert Preferences explains that this, and a shed load of others, are expert preferences supported by Xcode (but) not accessible through the user [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2007 by headwedge
Now there’s a frustrating thing. It seems some kind of Mac dogma to never have an eject button for optical media. Nothing, zip, nada, nowt, not even a hole to poke a paper clip into!
So what do you do when your optical media get stuck in your Mac? Silver Mac has the answer!
Stuck disc frustration [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2007 by headwedge
This quote says it all - “Giving Apple users the chance to choose Windows Vista as well as Mac OS is like allowing people to vote for George W. Bush all over again.”
The reason I made the switch to Macs was because of Apple’s switch to Intel & the existence of Boot Camp. Further, [...]
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