Quick! How do you expand a file path that has a tilde in a program? Luckily, you can use NSString to resolve the path for you. So, if you path looks like “~/Library”, you can use the stringByExpandingTildeInPath method to resolve the tilde to the full path: “/Users/johndoe/Library/”. Here is s snippet of code to…
Author: Jaime
Creating writting made easier…
So what is new? Something old actually. English is what I am referring to and I have found a new way to think about the written word! My wife picked up some stuff at the local pharmacy and with that stuff there was a copy of ‘Mac Life’, a magazine dedicated to all things Macintosh…
Objective-C and C++: Friends or Foes?
For many developers like myself, I learned a language as a means to create a program on a specific platform. Back in the early 90’s, I learned Pascal because that was the language that PC and Macintosh’s used. Later in the 90’s, I learned C++ because this was the buzzword language that BeOS, the powerful…
XBox 360 and the Red Ring of Death
What a day! For the first time in a long time I had some time to kill, so what better way to do that then to play Gears Of War! I fired up my Xbox 360 and instead of giving me it’s usual chime and startup movie, I get three flashing red lights 🙁 I…
Creating Thumbnails in a List View Control, Part 1
A long time ago, I needed to create an application in Windows that could enumerate the contents of a folder and present the images as thumbnails within a List View Control. I had found this article on CodeGuru.com that promised to show how to do all that, but actually created nothing more than confusion. There…
Finally posting some content!
Hooray, I posted some content. The cool thing about this website is that I am posting code that I have worked on in the past. My hopes is to help people jump start their coding endeavor! Check out the coding part of this website. A new article was posted on the endeavors of displaying images…