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Handling Interruptions in your iOS App.
iOS – Handling Interruptions As we all know, iOS Apps run on mobile devices. The users of mobile devices can be interrupted by any number of things. Many of the interruptions come from other services...
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Adding Perl modules to OS X Lion with Terminal and CPAN.
If you’ve installed the Apple developer tools for OS X Lion, then you should already have a working installation of Perl. But you might find a need for some additional modules. Visit CPAN and search...
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Testing “Xcode 4.5 and iOS 6 SDK beta 3″ using a virtual machine instance of...
For a couple weeks now, I’ve been using Xcode 4.3.3 and the iOS 5.1 SDK on a mid 2012 MacBook Air 13″ with 8GB Ram. It’s very nice. With the July 16th update to the iOS 6 development betas, it was...
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Install CentOS 6.3 64-bit Linux in VMware Fusion 4.1.3
As part of my iOS app development and testing lab, I have a need to be able to test client applications against multi-platform database services. Last year I determined a collection of OS X, CentOS,...
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COTS and corporate consumerism.
It is truly amazing the number of companies who go on consumeristic shopping sprees buying so called “COTS packages” in hopes of instant gratification. The marketing wordsmiths of the software industry...
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Installer quit unexpectedly… root cause missing JavaLaunching.framework
Error logs indicate the system needs Java for the package installer to work properly. As verified and documented below, it does not; it only needs a “framework folder” containing some reference...
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Was “IP enabling” the OS Kernel, System Libraries, and Application Frameworks...
For the impatient reader… I’ll cut to point. Yes, it was a mistake. We are well beyond the point where a seemingly good idea has been taken to excess and evolved into a bad implementation. How did I...
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Situations where JIRA doesn’t meet the needs of a project (JRA-846).
When evaluating tools like JIRA, HP ALM, or IBM Rational, it’s important evaluate project needs vs product capabilities. Obviously the costs of getting started with JIRA are much lower than some...
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Xcode unable to create snapshot: unable to write to file … plist
Xcode error: Unable to create snapshot Unable to write to info file ‘<DVTFilePath: ~~~~~ info.plist’>’. Xcode has been tossing this error at me for over a year now. This problem has persisted...
View ArticleOpen Source software pitfalls; why you should test in a very restricted VM:
TL;DR: a free open source software package with buried install routine that tries to AWS Cloud Formation a server cluster… would incur ~$22K/month. In recent weeks, I’ve been reviewing dozens of open...
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