Thursday, February 12, 2015

a backtracking python generator

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I love python's `generator`s and needed a backtracking generator to help me out with a YAML parser that I am writing. This is possible u...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Have you turned it off, then back on again?

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A co-worker just ran into the best dialog box I have ever seen on MacOS: Yes, you are reading that right: Apple has a dialog box telli...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Compiling the mysql-python bindings as a Universal binary

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For a project I needed a copy of the mysql-python bindings that would run on every version of MacOS back to 10.5.0. But the compiled version...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Notes from the field

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Working in computer labs you build up a repertoire of little tips and tricks, but I have never really taken the time to write them down an...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Writing screensavers for 10.5 and 10.6

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I needed to write a screensaver recently, one that would work on both 10.5 and 10.6, but ran into a problem when I tried to build such a p...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Apple refuses to solve my installer problem

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A while ago I wrote about two problems I was having with the 10.6 installer and then a little while later how I had solved one of them wit...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Bug with hdiutil and symlinks

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I got an error report from an InstaDMG user who was using symlinks to point at their installer DVD. I had never tried out using symlinks for...
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