As usual, last night before bed I checked my email only to find my VPS host down! It was the third time in a week that this had happened. Apparently VPSLand has been having some serious server stability issues. Being the third time in a week, it was time to take action. I did the normal routine of filing a support request (which they finally answered at 4:30 AM, 5 and a half hours after I put it in) that the server my VPS is on is down again. It didn't come back until mid afternoon today... nearly 14 hours after I filed a support request!

During my wait, I surfed around a bit and found Linode. If you're reading this now, you're reading it being hosted from Linode! Rather than deal with the problems VPSLand is having, I pulled the plug on them and copied everything over to Linode!

Thanks for getting me up and running so fast guys! Now I have more memory, more hard drive space, and more bandwidth to use for the same price! So long VPSLand, Hello Linode!!

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I just ran across this great post titled Thinking Like a Cocoa Programmer over at theocacao.com. Give it a read!

As you can probably see, I've started a new site design. Please be patient while the changes come through. I should have it all done by this weekend.

I did a little light reading on CocoaDev.com tonight and found this handy little tool called class-dump. It reads the binary files of any Framework or Cocoa app and creates @interface files from them. I'm a fan of bzr and am looking into the possibilities of creating a bzr Xcode plugin if i have a few months to spare.

It looks like most of the code that Xcode calls for dealing with SCM systems is in the DevToolsCore framework (in /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/). I also did a class-dump on the Subversion Xcode plugins in /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/. I've zipped them all up and you can download them here.

Happy hacking!

I was looking for a way to automatically add the LGPL license to the header of the GLSCollections classes when I stumbled across this link at CocoaDev explaining how to add custom file templates in older versions of Xcode. It's not quite the same as what's explained on that page anymore, so here's how it's done now.

So it's been a while since I've posted anything on here. I haven't disappeared. Over the past few weeks I've been going through Aaron Hillegass' 3rd edition of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. If you haven't picked up this book yet and have any interest in getting started in Mac development, go buy this book right now.

In my first attempts at learning Cocoa, I was trying to use the 2nd edition of the book while using Xcode 3 on Leopard. Needless to say, this didn't work out so well. That's when I started working on the GLSCollections framework just so I could get some more experience on the inner workings of Objective-C while waiting for the 3rd edition of Aaron's book to come out. (btw: this project isn't gone now, but I have put it on the side for a little bit. I'll probably restart it from scratch, though).

Anyhow, I've gotten through the 3rd edition and am now working on a full fledged Cocoa application. My wife wanted a little cookbook application for her new Macbook, so I'm taking the opportunity to write one for her. It uses CoreData, will incorporate a "Cover Flow" type view for browsing through pictures of recipes, and I'm also looking into incorporating document sharing via Google Docs (but that feature hasn't even been started yet).

The basics are about 50% done right now. I've got the main interface done. Now I'm just working out all of the little details. Let me know if you're interested in seeing a nowhere-near-complete preview version!

The GLSLinkedList class in its first iteration is finished! It's not complete yet, though. I still need to work with the enumeration classes to get them to function more like NSEnumerator so it's easier to implement the list in Cocoa. But that will come a little ways down the road. I wanted to get the thing working first!

Feel free to peruse the code. You can view all of the code written so far on the Trac site for GLSCollections. Questions and comments are welcome!

I've set up Trac on the server for project management. Currently only the GLSCollections project is in there, but as I work on more projects, more will be added. Here's a link to the trac project site: http://www.glsoftware.net/trac/GLSCollections

I'll get it better integraded here soon!

So this post doesn't have much of anything to do with this site, but a lot to do with me. I got married this weekend to my wonderful wife Sri!

I've switched over to a new hosting provider. I wanted a little more control of the systems administration so I switched from shared hosting to a VPS. Hopefully everything still works for everyone.