Part 2: Creating a Foundation-based CLI for Ubuntu
In Part 1: Cross Compiling Foundation I provided a step by step tutorial on how to compile the Cocotron Foundation framework for Ubuntu Linux using Xcode 4.
This post is intended to complete the tutorial by explaining how a simple command line tool can be created which will run [...]

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Part 1: Cross Compiling Foundation
Everyone who knows me knows I’m an advocate of Objective-C, the Foundation framework, and Cocoa. Luckily, in recent years Objective-C has gained wide-spread popularity by virtue of the iPhone/iPad hype. However, there has always been a lack of integration with operating systems not originating from Apple. There are numerous reasons one [...]

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WhyNotUnmount 0.3 is out now. Version 0.3 provides a number of stability improvements (multi-threading issues were fixed), improved unmounting of volumes, automatic list updating on device mounting / unmounting, and finally, several updated user interface details.
WhyNotUnmount works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard) and comes as a Universal Binary.
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A new openFrameworks-Python Binding for OS X 10.5 is finally available for download. The new binding comes with an Xcode project including the openFrameworks 005 source code and required libraries plus an example of how to use the binding. As in the previous versions, after building the binding using Xcode, you may run the test [...]

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Pythonware’s PIL, the Python Imaging Library, is an extension to Python enabling you to process and arrange images quickly. It supports the popular JPEG and PNG image formats and provides font rendering using the freetype2 library. Unfortunately, PIL is not included in the standard Python environment on Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, so you have to [...]

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WhyNotUnmount 0.2 has been released today. A number of bugs are fixed now. WhyNotUnmount will now display all blocking processes regardless of whether they are UI or system processes.
For more information on what the program does, please see the original post on WhyNotUnmount.
Download WhyNotUnmount (DMG, 530 KB, Freeware)

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WhyNotUnmount is a small project which I have started to make life a little bit easier for all those people carrying external hard drives with their MacBook. Of course, it is suitable for all other kinds of Macs also. WhyNotUnmount attempts to tell you why a certain (external) hard drive, DMG or other volume cannot [...]

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The tufte-latex package is a template implementing the tufte book style on latex. When I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 my old teTex configuration became obsolete. I replaced it with the newest MacTex 2008 package including TexLive 2008. As a GUI I chose to continue using the TexShop application, which I have gotten used [...]

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I stumbled upon Ragestorm.net’s great tutorial on Python embedding when I was trying to embed Python in a Cocoa application and redirect standard output / standard error to an NSTextView. Ragestorm’s tutorial is not particularly about Cocoa / Objective-C, but does though solve the problem. Stdout / stderr is simply redirected using a fragment of [...]

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SWIG makes the creation of bindings for C/C++ libraries easy for various high-level exits (Java, Perl, PHP, Python, etc.). However, in the case of Python on OS X, when the actual SWIG wrapper is finished the difficulties begin: one needs to create an adequate dynamic library for the Python runtime — and like with everything [...]

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