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Rails + SQL Server + Mac OS X

Alright. While there are a few blog posts here and there purporting to make this process easy, this is absolutely driving me crazy. Here's what I've done: I've installed FreeTDS (with and without +mssql) but encounter problems when I use it to connect to my remote DB instance. When I attempt tsql -H [remote-db-ip] -p 1433 -U [valid-...

Difference between quartz2d on iphone and mac

There is difference between quartz2d on iphone and mac? where can i find a list of that? Every book i founded in amazon is dedicate to programming quartz on mac. ...

Sharing xCode Projects across the internet creating file directory issues

A friend and I are both working in xCode. We send each other the most recent version of the application files as a .zip or upload to our ftp whenever the other person needs to work on their area of the project. However, we have had some issues. When I last sent it to him, xCode wouldn't let him open and run the project. However, when he ...

iPhone pagination dots??

Does anyone know how to incorporate the iPhone's (and iTunes) pagination dots into a web page? The web page I'm working is for the iPhone, but is not a native app, just an iPhone optimized web site. I figured out how to do horizantale finger scrolling - major headache - but not the client is asking for some pagination to display as the...

Help trying to use Apple Push Notification Service through Java

Am trying to implement a Java program which sends an Apple Push Notification to an iPhone client app... Found the following library: Java APNs Provider code: Created the following code (from Javapns) to use in my app: try { PayLoad payLoad = new PayLoad(); payLoad.addAlert("My alert message"); payLoad.addBadge(45); pa...

iPhone Push Notifications Custom Sound, no Vibrate in silent mode?

So, I have Push Notifications working fine to my app with Custom Sounds. However, when my iPhone is in silent mode, and I send a push notification with a custom sound, the sound obviously does not play, but there is also no vibration. If I send a push notification with a sound="chime" or something that doesn't exist like that, the iPho...

Legality of Modifying OS x INstaller File (Distribution)

The program I would like to make is to modify one of the OS X Installer files, specifically the file "Distribution" which defines in the OS x Installer what packages are to be listed in the Custom dialog and some other variables in the installer, is this legal to modify and put an in application and can this be legally hosted in say Goog...

Balancing Mac Experience with Apple Patents

Like (probably) most people here, I'm not a fan of Software Patents. It makes it hard to write software, especially for an operating system like Mac OS X, where you generally want to do things "the Macintosh way". But when Apple patents techniques that they use in their own OS and software, it's very difficult for third-party developer...

Good resources for learning Objective-C

I have developed for a number of years in Java, primarily for Linux and Windows. During my undergrad and grad school times, I also did quite a bit in C and C++. I have recently (in the last year and a half) started using primarily Apple computers at home, and am interested in exploring their Xcode development environment. I am interes...

Designing an MDI style interface in Cocoa

I have an application that works on the concept of 'workspaces' that will eventually be ported to Cocoa. In the current Windows incarnation the each workspace is an MDI window which can contains sub windows. These sub windows need to be easily separated, visually, from sub windows in other workspaces since workspace state is saved (not ...

Class-Dump Installation

So this may sound like a really stupid question and I HAVE looked at the how-to from the parent website, but no matter what I do, I cannot get this program to even start to install... I tried entering: cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/class-dump which returned a "this file/director doesnt exist" error, so i tried to get to it fol...

What is stored in ~/Library/Caches/<my-app-bundle>/Cache.db ?

I'm really wondering what is stored in the mentioned path? A side question: May a developer use this path (at least the folder) to store his own temp data? ...

Programmatically get amount of RAM installed on OS X

I'm working on a machine that has 8 gigs of memory installed and I'm trying to programmatically determine how much memory is installed in the machine. I've already attempted using sysctlbyname() to get the amount of memory installed, however it seems to be limited to returning a signed 32 bit integer. uint64_t total = 0; size_t size = ...

Documentation for Apple's ithmb format?

I am looking for documentation of the ithmb format used by Apple for photos stored on an Apple iPod. I would be happy with source code or a description. The only "documentation" I can find is pre-compiled executables that crack out the JPEGs. Does anyone know how to do this? ...

apple certified professionals

Lets take an example Microsoft - provides OS & application development tools like .net Microsoft also provides study center & gives Microsoft certified Professional Certificate or something like that. Same way oracle also provides courses - DBA Same way SAP provides Does apple provides something like following? Apple iPhone Certifi...

Can using my iPhone as a development device ruin my iphone for normal use?

I'm a programmer with about 5 years of experience and I'm thinking about going into iPhone development. I checked out some books from the library for info. I found something that disturbed me tucked in a little corner of a book: "A development unit needs to be devoted exclusively to development. Using a device as a development unit mea...

Getting involved with the Mac developer community

I'm getting started in developing Mac software and would like to get some support from fellow developers. So my question is this, where can I ask questions and get involved in the mac developer community online? (I already know about the Apple Development Forums) ...

How to create custom movie controller for a qtmovieview, similar to Final Cut?

Hi, I'm using Cocoa and the QTMovieView to show a movie. I'd like to be able to show a custom movie controller below the movie, so the user can set markers and an in and out point. Basically the same behavior as Final Cut Pro. I'm fairly new to Interface Builder, but from the looks of it this is not easy. Can someone tell me how to do...

core data inverse relation

Hi, Can anyone explains with an example for inverse relationship in apple core data ? Thanks In Advance, Raghu ...

Grand Central Dispatch versus Cilk++

Anybody have any thoughts on Grand Central Dispatch (which has now been open-sourced by Apple) and Cilk++? Comparisons/contrasts? Is Cilk more Windows-only? ...