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The state of iOS Open Source
I just quickly want to plug The state of iOS Open Source – and what to do about it! by Fredrik Olsson. It's a great little piece of advice for all us iOS developers
Converting OCUnit output to something Jenkins can understand
I'm working on setting up my continuous integration system to work with Xcode. I'm using Jenkins on a separate Mac Mini, and I found this great article by Christian Hedin where he introduces his ocunit2junit.rb utility that converts the output of OCUnit to something looking like JUnit, thus making it easier for Jenkins to pick integrate with the build.
The Sims 3 in Lion
I don't play that many games, but one that I've enjoyed for a number of years has been The Sims. Now that Lion is out and we can talk about it, I found the answer about what to do when it fails with an Unknown Error: Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete the com.transgaming.* files and the "The Sims 3 Preferences" directory. This will make the game run again.
Minus points for the 2011 iMac
Some of you might have thought that I'm perhaps a bit too happy about the iMac, and of course too cheap to get a Mac Pro. (Yes, I'm just as excited as anyone to see what the new Pro will be like now that Thunderbolt is a great bus-alternative, but that's for another topic) Let me dedicate this post to the minus points for the iMac.
Replacing iMac 2011 memory
Back when the new iMacs were released in may 2011 I ordered one with 4GB RAM, expecting to replace them with 32GB. However, getting four 8GB blocks turned out to be incredibly hard, and very expensive, so I settled for 4x4GB blocks for a total of 16GB RAM 1333Mhz SO-DIMM RAM. Two sets of 2x4GB from Crucial was very inexpensive (about 800 DKK plus tax), and they arrived a couple of days before the iMac.
Relocating your svn repository in-flight
Once upon a time I used a beanstalk repository in http mode. By that I mean I had it checked out from a http:// address, rather than the usual svn+ssh:// because Beanstalk didn't support svn+ssh:// . Since then, no-one had touched the project, but today I wanted to do some changes. I went ahead to make them, and before committing I did a "svn up" just in case. It told me:
32GB RAM for new Mid-2011 iMacs
So today they released the new iMac. Still no reviews so I have no clue whether I was right or wrong about the chipset. So I've started looking into another pet topic of mine: RAM. I really would like these machines to take a bucket-load of RAM, but Apple still limits themselves to 16GB.
vmc push\'ing Java/Maven/Spring projects
I'm just getting started with Cloud Foundry. So I grabbed Springs samples and compiled hello-spring-mongodb doing "mvn package" and then "vmc push -no-start". That got me:
Digital film
Wow, I remember back in 1998, me and another photo enthusiast were discussing DSLRs vs digital film. I was holding out on DSLRs until there was a camera that could fit my lenses and was as good as the Canon 500N I had at the time. Turned out I'd be waiting a while, the first one I got (matched the requirements!) was the Canon 20D. Anyway, my friend showed a links on Slashdot and a few papers on "Digital Film", and I had to agree: that was probably a much better fit for the time.
Intel Z68 chipset for the iMac that\'ll be released tuesday May 3rd?
Fair warning: This is speculation on my part