Written by Philipp on 2011-01-23
Show Build-Information in your iOS App About Panel
Build . iOSSometimes it might be useful to have an exact piece of information about what version of an app you have currently running. Especially if you have a decent Testing-Group, it is important to track the versions in which a bug appears. The goal of this post is to achieve a info panel like this in
Written by Philipp on 2011-01-22
Using UIAutomation for Multilanguage iOS Applications
iOS . Javascript . TestingWith the appearance of iOS 4.0 Apple introduced a new Test-Framework for automatically UI Testing: UI Automation. Based on Javascript and build-in into Instruments, UI Automation is a very useful tool during the Developing of iOS Application. A very good introduction in UIAutomation is here and here. During the development of a iOS Application, we
Written by Philipp on 2010-08-15
Philipps 5 mins: Graph-Fun with AJAX and Canvas
Graphics . Javascript . PHPI always searched for an efficient way add dynamic diagrams to a web-project without using flash or other plugin-based magic. With the support of the canvas tag element in almost all mainstream browser, i thought it would be a good time for creating a short demo how things workout. You will need at least two
Written by Philipp on 2010-06-21
MacOS update 10.6.4 and Macfusion
Mac . NASAfter the updating MacFusion to the latest Version, i got the known Snow Leopard Error again. Last time i found the solution here. Worked also perfect this time.
Written by Philipp on 2010-06-16
MacOS update 10.6.4 and GPGMail
Mac . Tech . TwitterSo the latest MacOS Update broke the gpg-mail Plugin again. But it seems that the old UUID Trick saves the show. First close Mail.app. Then you need to find out the new PluginCompatibilityUUIDs from Mail.app and the Message Framework. cat /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Resources/Info.plist | grep UUID -A 1 cat /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist |grep UUID -A 1 | grep UUID
Written by Philipp on 2010-01-28
creating JNI with Swig
Build . Java . ToolingI am currently playing around with JNI and Java due the colleagues question to make the connect features of jack-audio (http://jackaudio.org) accessible to java. There is already a javalib (http://jjack.berlios.de) with some features, there seems still some needes ones missing. So i started today to have a look into SWIG (http://swig.org). “SWIG is a software
Written by Philipp on 2009-11-08
Wiederherstellen eines MacOS Festplatten-Backups mit Hilfe von DD
ToolingDas Festplattendienstprogramm von MacOS bietet unter einer übersichtlichen Oberfläche ein umfangreiches Tool um mit Festplatten zu arbeiten. Allerdings gibt es hier einige Probleme, welche oftmals einen Umweg über das Terminal benötigen. Ich habe das Tool dazu benutzt um eine Festplatte aus einem neu erworbenen Netbook zu sichern, bevor ich mit verschiedenen Linux Distributionen spiele :-).
Written by Philipp on 2009-09-06
system update :-/
Mac . PersonalWer meine vergangenen Kurzbeiträge verfolgt hat, hat mitbekommen, dass ich mein System auf MacOS 10.6 aktualisiert habe. Neben vielen Dingen die erstaunlich problemlos liefen, gibt es leider auch einige Probleme. Manche davon ließen sich sehr einfach lösen: Die fehlenden Java Versionen 1.4 bis 1.5 lassen sich einfach durch das manuelle Kopieren aus einem Backup wieder
Written by Philipp on 2009-09-01
Updating to Snow Leopard
Mac . PersonalAlso machen wir es erstmal kurz. Ich bin erstaunt wie problemlos das Update von 10.5 auf 10.6 von Statten ging. Mein Ansatz war, das System neu aufzusetzen und dann per Migrations-Assistent meine Daten zu übertragen. Was soll ich sagen? Nach jetzt gut 3 Stunden ist alles fertig. Und bisher fand sich nur Cyberduck, welches die
Written by Philipp on 2009-04-20
Changing UserID in MacOS 10.5.x Leopard
MacThere is no NetInfo-Tool any more. So you have to use the Command Line Tool dscl. (For more info type “man dscl”) So to change the userid (UID) of user db2admin from 502 to 507 type: sudo dscl . -change /Users/db2admin UniqueID 502 507