Here’s my .emacs file in all its unedited glory. May it be a light in your time of google searching or a darkness in your time of trying to understand how to configure emacs. It’s also in a gist. It’s a franken.emacs from lots of sources on the net. I’ve forgot them all, but almost […]
pop quiz: why are my parameters zero when I pass them in with non-zero values
This one had me stuck for a number of minutes. It’s not hard, but it got me. See if you can spot it: say you create a new class that is inited like so: @interface YoDogWhatsWrong @property (nonatomic) float aValue; @end @implementation YoDogWhatsWrong – (id)initWithAValue:(float)aFloat anotherValue:(float)someOtherValue { if ((self = [super init])) { self.aValue = […]
Android Dev Console Wallet Registration: Error 400
If you’re setting up IAP for the first time on your google dev console, you will probably need to setup google wallet for merchants. I ran into a silly bug where I fill out the form and always got a message that read: An error occurred {“type”:”PLATFORM_ERROR”, “payload”:”400″, “request_id”:”4EDF17245AA00.A803E4F.6DB2″} Emailed support a couple times, turns […]
Namespacing a framework in objective-c, @compatibility_alias, and #defines
Shakespeare said something about roses and names smelling nice, but if you’re Outkast you know that sometimes, roses really smell like poo. Additionally, if you’re a programmer, you sometimes need to get another set of better spelling roses to set the world right. Far-fetched metaphors aside, namespacing issues come up less than I would expect. […]
Mac Dictionary Services API Tease
I am a big fan of Dictionary.app. It’s pretty handy for English, but what makes it really shine is that it has a zomg-amazing Japanese dict called Daijisen. What’s more, with 10.8 Apple threw in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese dictionaries as well. However, after getting used to the app, while still using it, I […]