how to debug EXC_BAD_ACCESS on iPhone

October 31, 2009

EXC_BAD_ACCESS. Debugging this one is on par with figuring out why the wife says “not tonight, honey.” And they are equally unfortunate situations.
Let’s see what we can do about EXC_BAD_ACCESS.

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decoding a UTF-8 NSString

October 30, 2009

I came across this issue when I received a UTF-8 encoded string from a URL. I was expecting the UTF-8 string to be automatically decoded, but then I realized that it’s probably not trivial to identify a UTF-8 string, so NSString doesn’t automatically do this for a reason. (Unfortunately, this realization came only after I’d been [...]

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converting NSString to JSON string

October 29, 2009

I needed a quick way to encode an NSString to be used in a JSON object in an iPhone project. There are libraries to do this like TouchJSON, but I didn’t want to link a whole library to insert a string into a Facebook query.

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how to rename a mac and change the hostname in OS X

October 28, 2009
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The OS X registration process can come up with some pretty stupid computer names like chuck johnson’s macbook. This will show up in the Terminal, on the network and it has a freaking single quote and spaces in it ?!
Here’s how to rename it to something that makes sense, like pink.

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installing windows 7 from a USB stick

October 27, 2009

Microsoft offers a tool to create a bootable USB stick (thumb drive? flash drive? floppy disk?) using a Windows7 ISO image, but if you purchased an educational/student copy of Windows7, it won’t work for you.

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suppress layer numbers in Export Layers To Files

October 18, 2009

Adobe Photoshop CS4 comes with a script that exports layers to files, but it adds layer numbers to the file names by default. After lots of manual renaming I decided to add an option to suppress the layer numbers.

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dw1510 windows xp drivers

October 17, 2009

I’ve recently replaced the network card in my Acer Aspire One 250 netbook with a Dell DW1510.I had some trouble finding the drivers on Dell’s site, so I’m posting the info here.

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provisioning profile not showing in 2.x project

October 10, 2009

I’ve recently worked on an update to MeanPhoto. The project was originally done using the iPhone SDK 2.1. I made the new distribution build with the 3.1.2 SDK without any issues, but when I uploaded the binary on iTunesConnect, I got an error saying that the app was not signed with an Apple provisioning profile.
I [...]

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