Category Archives: tool-support

A sneaky preview of ClassBrowser

Posted on 2013-12-18 by Graham

Let me start with a few admissions. Firstly, I have been computering for a good long time now, and I still don’t really understand compilers. Secondly, work on my GNUstep Web side-project has tailed off for a while, because I … Continue reading →

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Updating my ObjC web app on git push

Posted on 2013-11-05 by Graham

I look at SignUp.woa running on my Ubuntu server, and it looks like this. That title text doesn’t quite look right. $ open -a TextWrangler Main.wo/Main.html $ make $ make check $ git add -A $ git commit -m “Use … Continue reading →

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Automated tests with the GNUstep test framework

Posted on 2013-11-04 by Graham

Setup Of course, it’d be rude not to use a temperature converter as the sample project in a testing blog post. The only permitted alternative is a flawed bank account model. I’ll create a folder for my project, then inside … Continue reading →

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Conflicts in my mental model of Objective-C

Posted on 2013-10-09 by Graham

My worldview as it relates to the writing of software in Objective-C contains many items that are at odds with one another. I either need to resolve them or to live with the cognitive dissonance, gradually becoming more insane as … Continue reading →

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At the old/new interface: jQuery in WebObjects

Posted on 2013-07-01 by Graham

It turns out to be really easy to incorporate jQuery into an Objective-C WebObjects app (targeting GNUstep Web). In fact, it doesn’t really touch the Objective-C source at all. I defined a WOJavascript object that loads jQuery itself from the … Continue reading →

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Shell scripts and Xcode

Posted on 2013-05-21 by Graham

Back in 2009 at the first NSConf, Scotty asked some of the speakers for an Xcode Quick Tip. I’m still using mine today. When your target needs a “Run Shell Script” build phase, don’t write the script into the box … Continue reading →

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Objective-C, dependencies, linking

Posted on 2013-05-13 by Graham

In the most recent episode of Edge Cases, Wolf and Andrew discuss dependency management, specifically as it pertains to Objective-C applications that import libraries using the Cocoapods tool. In one app I worked on a few years ago, two different … Continue reading →

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Specifications for interchanging objects

Posted on 2013-05-06 by Graham

One of the interesting aspects of Smalltalk and similar languages including Objective-C and Ruby is that while the object model exposes a hierarchy of classes, consumers of objects in these environments are free to ignore the position of the object … Continue reading →

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A note on notes

Posted on 2013-03-02 by Graham

I’ve always had a way to take notes, but have never settled into a particular scheme. This post, more for my benefit than for yours, is an attempt to dig through this history and decide what I want to do … Continue reading →

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How to handle Xcode in your meta-build system’s iOS or Mac app target

Posted on 2013-02-28 by Graham

OK, I’ve said before in APPropriate Behaviour that I dislike build systems that build other build systems: Some build procedures get so complicated that they spawn another build system that configures the build environment for the target system before building. … Continue reading →