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Best subversion client for Mac OS

On Windows, Tortoise SVN is the daddy, no question. On the Mac there is nothing as simple and integrated, but there is a fair choice of tools. Which GUI clients are worth checking out and why?...

What are the preferred versions of Vim and Emacs on Mac OS X?

For those of us that like to use the graphical version of Vim or Emacs, instead of the console version, which version do you recommend? For Vim, there's Mac OS X Vim, MacVim, Vim-Cocoa. For Emacs, CarbonEmacs, XEmacs, and Aquamacs. Are there more? Which of these are ready for prime-time? If it's a tough call, what are the trade-offs? ...

How-to articles for iPhone development, Objective-C

I am looking for an introduction into developing for the iPhone. Any recommendation? I do not speak Objective-C either, so tutorials on that would not hurt either. ...

How to tab focus onto a dropdown field in Mac OSX

In Windows, in any windows form / web browser, you can use the tab button to switch focus through all of the form fields. It will stop on textboxes, radiobuttons, checkboxes, dropdown menus, etc. However, in Mac OSX, tab skips dropdown menus. Is there anyway to change this behavior, or access them any other way without using a mouse?...

How to tab between buttons on an Mac OS X dialog box

I know that there has been a similar question asked here very recently, but I was wondering if it was possible to tab between buttons on default Mac OS X dialog boxes? I already have the "All Controls" option enabled in System Preferences->Keyboard and mouse->keyboard shortcuts, but no joy. ...

SQL Client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server

What's a good SQL client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server? I don't really need a GUI, but it's nice to have for the color coding and resultset grid. ...

I have some RAM to burn - any suggestions?

I needed to run memcached locally for dev on my Mac G5 so I have 8 Gigs now. I also use a RAM disk for running scripts on large files. Have you used extra ram for any interesting tasks? ...

Programmatically talking to a Serial Port in OS X or Linux

I have a Prolite LED sign that I like to set up to show scrolling search queries from a apache logs and other fun statistics. The problem is, my G5 does not have a serial port, so I have to use a usb to serial dongle. It shows up as /dev/cu.usbserial and /dev/tty.usbserial . When i do this everything seems to be hunky-dory: stty -f /d...

How do I configure a Vista Ultimate (64bit) account so it can access a SMB share on OSX?

I have Windows File sharing enabled on an OS X 10.4 computer. It's accessible via \rudy\myshare for all the Windows users on the network, except for one guy running Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition. All the other users are running Vista or XP, all 32-bit. All the workgroup information is the same, all login with the same username/password...

Keep Remote Directory Up-to-date

I absolutely love the Keep Remote Directory Up-to-date feature in Winscp. Unfortunately, I can't find anything as simple to use in OS X or Linux. I know the same thing can theoretically be accomplished using changedfiles or rsync, but I've always found the tutorials for both tools to be lacking and/or contradictory. I basically just ne...

better command for Windows?

While I grew up using Windows, I transitioned to my much-loved Mac years ago. I don't want to start a flame war here on operating systems. I do, however, want a terminal a little closer to what I'm used to. I'm not asking for full POSIX support - I don't have the patience to install CygWing - but I miss tabbed terminals, being able to...

Reading Other Process' Memory in Mac OS / BSD

I've been attempting to understand how to read the memory of other processes on Mac OS, but I'm not having much luck. I've seen many examples online using ptrace with PEEKDATA and such, however it doesn't have that option on BSD (man page). Does anyone know how I might do this? Thank you. ...

_wfopen equivalent under Mac OS X

I'm looking to the equivalent of Windows _wfopen() under Mac OS X. Any idea? I need this in order to port a Windows library that uses wchar* for its File interface. As this is intended to be a cross-platform library, I am unable to rely on how the client application will get the file path and give it to the library. ...

Why is the PyObjC documentation so bad?

For example, http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/pyobjc.html is still for OS X 10.4 Tiger, not 10.5 Leopard.. And that's the official Apple documentation for it.. The official PyObjC page is equally bad, http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ It's so bad it's baffling.. I'm considering learning Ruby primarily because the RubyCocoa stuff is so muc...

Drawing a view hierachy into a specific context in Cocoa

For part of my application I have a need to create an image of a certain view and all of its subviews. To do this I'm creating a context that wraps a bitmap with the same-size as the view, but I'm unsure how to draw the view hierarchy into it. I can draw a single view just be setting the context and explicitly calling drawRect, but this...

Developer Setup for Starting Out with Cocoa/Mac Programming

I'd like to start experimenting with Cocoa and programming for Mac OSX. I'm not terribly concerned with Objective C syntax/constructs/bheaviors at this point, but more curious as to an efficient setup on in terms of an editor and/or IDE that will get me going quickly. Is there any IDE even remotely similar to Visual Studio (since that'...

How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way?

How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way? Unfortunately, this is for a a client app written in Java, not a website. I would like this to work in a cross-platform way (which means Windows and Mac, sorry Linux). I am happy to execute a VBScript in Windows, or AppleScript in OS X. But I have n...

Rich GUI OS X Frameworks?

What would you recommend for OS X development of a graphical application like those possible in WPF? My specific background is in Smalltalk & Java, but I currently work mostly in DHTML/.NET (ASP.NET/C#). ...

Any ReSharper equivalent for Xcode?

I'm a complete Xcode/Objective-C/Cocoa newbie but I'm learning fast and really starting to enjoy getting to grips with a new language, platform and paradigm. One thing is though, having been using Visual Studio with R# for so long I've kind of been spoiled with the coding tools such as refactorings and completion etc and as far as I can...

How to Stop NTFS volume auto-mounting on OS X

I'm a bit newbieish when it comes to the deeper parts of OSX configuration and am having to put up with a fairly irritating niggle which while I can put up with it, I know under Windows I could have sorted in minutes. Basically, I have an external disk with two volumes: One is an HFS+ volume which I use for TimeMachine backups. The ot...