Please advise a combination of server and client technologies, tools and frameworks to implement a solution that meets the following requirements? File server in the network has a huge library of mp3/aac/aiff/wav music files Desktop cocoa application accesses audio files using URLs: rtmp, http, rtsp+rtp, ftp — how to make a choice? Audio...
Windows has SetUnhandledExceptionFilter API to enable applications to handle crashes. Is there something similar for the Mac platform? I didn't find anything like it on developer.apple.com... Thanks! ...
I can't seem to find a good built-in way to convert an NSString to wchar_t... any tips on how to do this? Anything Apple exposes on the NSString class is for c-strings (char*) or for unichars, but nothing for wchar*. ...
I have completed every step in XMonad's tutorial for Mac. However, I cannot start it. My shell did not run my .profile initially properly. My PATH works now correctly. I run the following command unsuccessfully startx and I get font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches font_cache: Updating FC cache xauth...
I'm about to start a new job where the coding practices are heavily centered around TDD and refactoring, and whose primary development language is Python. I come from the Java world, and have been a confident user of Eclipse for a good, long time. When not working in Java, I use emacs. I'm looking for an IDE for Python that will give ...
I am working on Mac OS X and I have a Python script which is going to be called by other scripts and programs (Apple's launchd in particular). I could call it with python /Users/xyz/long/absolute/path/to/script.py arg1 arg2 Since the location of the script might change, I want to decouple other scripts and the launchd configuration fi...
Hi everyone! I've recently got acquainted with Boost library and I'd like to use it in my Xcode project. But sadly there is no HowTo or FAQ on how to do it :( What's the sequence of actions to build and use Boost libraries in Xcode? Thanks in advance :) ...
In MySQL 5.0.51b on my Mac, ordinals beyond FIRST fail, as does BEFORE. So, ALTER TABLE my_contacts ADD COLUMN phone VARCHAR(10) FOURTH; fails altogether, as would ALTER TABLE my_contacts ADD COLUMN phone VARCHAR(10) BEFORE email; Do these work with any other flavors or versions of MySQL? ...
I have a program that works with a variety of files on both the Windows and Mac OS. I would like to give the user the option of adding a new option to their right click/control click context menu to the effect of "Compress with [Name of App]". I know this is quite possible in Windows with modifications to the registry, but is there a w...
I have found numerous examples on uploading a file to a web server via C++ on Windows. However I am struggling after a lot of searching (and I thought I was good with Google!) to find any examples to help me achieve the same on a Mac. Can anyone point me towards some help on how to upload a file to a web server on a Mac OS using either...
I would really like to be able to run our test suite on Xvfb so that swing windows don't keep popping up in the way of my work. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find a way to get the java runtime to use the display specified in the DISPLAY environment variable. I suppose this is because the Mac JDK is hardwired to use the (non-X-based) Mac...
I am trying to install Git on Mac OS X Leopard. I'm trying to avoid the MacPorts/Fink route. I'm also trying to avoid the installer on Google because I've gotten very far on my own, but if I have to I'll go ahead and download the installer. Anyway, I have Git installed. /usr/local/bin/git. The problem is that none of the documentation i...
I realize most Ruby development on the Mac uses Textmate but I love Netbeans in the Windows environment and am wondering whether it's equally awesome on the Mac - even if it's swimming against the stream a little bit, would Netbeans pose any issues as a Ruby IDE on the Mac? ...
i have tried VisualSVN server for the PC, and it seems pretty easy to install and use. The only catch is that my PC with Vista does crash, or can become not so responsive sometimes, so I am thinking of using an SVN server on the Mac instead. is there one on the Mac that is easy to install and is reliable too? ...
My X11 opens and closes repeatedly. I can see only the following at my Dock Application not responding How can you find logFiles which tell me the application that opens/closes X11 continuously? ...
I am producing graphs in a Python program, and now I need to visualize them. I am using Tkinter as GUI to visualize all the other data, and I would like to have a small subwindow inside with the graph of the data. At the moment I have the data being represented in a .dot file. And then I keep graphviz open, which shows the graph. But th...
My Mac saves my Vim's temporary files, my Scanner's log files and mach_kernel -files to my Root. I did not set this procedure up. I am at the moment removing files at my root, since many of them seem to be just swap files. I have the idea that only folders and system's symlinks should be at root. Which files should only be at Root? ...
Has anyone done this before, and if so how do you setup the development environment? ...
We are at a crossroad as what development tool to use for our application. We do not know if we will go for Adobe Air or use the traditional road which is Objective-C and Cocoa. The software is similar to www.riffmasterpro in functionality. Is Air the best solution here? ...
I have the following code which should put programs startable in Bash. if [ "`uname`" = "Darwin" ]; then compctl -f -x 'p[2]' -s "`/bin/ls -d1 /Applications/*/*.app /Application:/*.app | sed 's|^.*/\([^/]*\)\.app.*|\\1|;s/ /\\\\ /g'`" -- open alias run='open -a' fi However, it does not work in my Zsh at all. I ...