Chris's Tech JournalJava 7 Documentation Download
Oracle, like Sun before them, seem to be shy about sharing the download link for the Java API’s. As having an offline copy is pretty much essential for any serious Java programmer, here is the download link to the latest JavaSE 7 API docs: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-fcs-bin-b147-apidocs-27_jun_2011.zip
dd – The command of champions
dd is the linux command to rule your drives like a pro… simply, it lets you copy from one block device to another at byte level. Practically, this means you can do things like completely clone a drive or partition: independantly of all filesystem constraints. Basic syntax: dd if=<input device> of=<output device> bs=<block size> Example [...]
NSDictionary keys without implementing NSCopying
The requirement that NSDictionary keys comply to the NSCopying protocol in the iPhone SDK can be problematic. Sometimes one wishes to use instances of a relatively heavy, custom class as the dictionaries keys, for which NSCopying could become difficult or inappropriate to implement. Fortunately a clean workaround for this is simple to implement. The crucial [...]
MonoTouch’s immediate future secured!
MonoTouch Developers worldwide can all breathe a collective sigh of relief today with the news that the Mono Platform, including MonoTouch and MonoDroid, has been given a new steward in the form of Xamarin, a new partner company to Novell. There had been increasing doubts in recent months, over the future of the entire Mono [...]
Problem with MonoDevelop 2.6 Beta 3 + MonoTouch on OS-X
There is an obscure problem affecting MonoDevelop 2.6 Beta 3 used with Monotouch on OS-X. For some reason the build process starts ignoring an apparently random subset of a projects resource files, resulting it incomplete builds. The simplest solution appears to be to roll back to MonoDevelop 2.6 Beta 2.